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Be careful: It is getting hot out there
The New Orleans Saints kicked off the 2008 training camp last week, college football players report for camp soon and high school football is just about set to get under way.
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The master plan is for everyone
What if the city of Slidell called an important meeting for city planning and nobody showed up?
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Thank you for your support, Sen. Landrieu
There has been a lot of talk lately about how our basic constitutional rights are slowly being chipped away. The concern extends from everything from the right of habeas corpus to the right to bear arms. Now there is another challenge to our way of life, and that is the right to a free press.
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Top O' the Mornin
Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know why I look this way. I’ve traveled a long way and some of the roads weren’t paved.
More of this storyIt is amazing what public pressure and media attention can do. On Thursday, New Orleans Police Chief Warren Riley finally decided to do the right thing regarding misconduct within his department. Riley fired police trainee Ashley Terry, who flipped out at the Treme Community Center last week, yelling expletives and reportedly waving a firearm. The chief also released Officer Donyell Sanchell from the department. This is the policeman who emulated Mario Andretti on the Crescent City Connection, bumped a bridge officer with his vehicle and then slapped that officer in an amazing display of arrogance. Sanchell was outraged that a bridge officer was trying to stop him from driving like a lunatic at 90 mph on the Crescent City Connection.
More of this storyThe short fortune teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.
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Are we really ready for school to start?
Are you ready to send the kids back to school? Sure we are. The house and neighborhoods will be quieter. Childhood boredom will all but disappear. Even police officers, who’ve spent the past two months dealing with quite a bit of teenage mischief, will get a little reprieve.
More of this storySo, if someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation?
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