All posts tagged "louisiana"

  • A Lafayette Police Department vehicle blocks an entrance at the Grand Theatre in Lafayette, La., following a shooting, Thursday, July 23, 2015. (Paul Kieu/The Daily Advertiser via AP)
    3 dead in Louisiana movie theater shooting

    LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — A lone gunman sitting in a packed movie theater stood up about 20 minutes into the showing of “Trainwreck” and began firing into the crowd, killing two and injuring at least seven others...

    • Posted July 24, 2015
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  • Train cars are crashed beneath the Huey P. Long Bridge, which crosses over the Mississippi River, after they toppled off the bridge from high winds in Jefferson Parish, La., just outside New Orleans, Monday, April 27, 2015. More than 200,000 homes and businesses lost power and at least four cars carrying freight containers were blown off the approach to the Huey P. Long Bridge outside New Orleans as a line of severe thunderstorms moved across southeast Louisiana. None of the freight containers held hazardous cargo, and nobody was injured, (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
    New Orleans storm blows train off elevated rail, no reported injuries

    A series of violent thunderstorms struck parts of New Orleans and surrounding areas on Monday. Wind gusts reached speeds of up to 111 miles per hour, according to local news station WWLTV. The storm was strong enough to...

    • Posted April 27, 2015
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