NEW YORK -- AOL is adding talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres to its family of Web properties as it looks for ways to draw more people to its sites.
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A Baton Rouge Metro Council member wants the parish to support a campaign against men who wear their pants so low their underwear shows.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The NFL says First Lady Michelle Obama and former Indianapolis Colts coach Tony Dungy are coming to the French Quarter to promote her "Let's Move!" campaign against childhood obesity.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) - Las Vegas police are defending Paris Hilton's quick release from jail after her Aug. 27 arrest on suspicion of cocaine possession, saying they wanted to avoid disruptions in the jail's operations.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Bravo is cleaning house. The network announced Monday that Danielle Staub, the firestarter on "The Real Housewives of New Jersey," would not be returning the reality TV series.
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The New Orleans Saints kick off their regular season this week, and if you bleed black and gold, then you can be a "player of life" by donating blood.
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BRUSSELS – NATO may deploy 2,000 more soldiers to Afghanistan to join the 140,000-strong international force already there, an official said Monday.
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ON THE GULF OF MEXICO -- A key piece of evidence in the oil spill probe has been safely secured on a boat in the Gulf of Mexico. Investigators are getting their first chance to personally look at the device up close.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Vowing to find new ways to stimulate the sputtering economy, President Barack Obama will call for long-term investments in the nation's roads, railways and runways that would cost at least $50 billion.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is asking Congress to approve at least $50 billion in long-term spending in the nation's roads, railways and runways in a pre-election effort to show he's trying to stimulate the sputtering econ
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NEW YORK (AP) - Hip-hop star Kanye West is still feeling the pain over his trophy grab from Taylor Swift last year—and he's expressing his pain all over Twitter.
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Nervous business owners line the New Jersey shore right now, all because of Hurricane Earl.
Shop owners along the boardwalk say they are afraid of losing customers.
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City-Parish President Joey Durel will not yet appoint a new board of commissioners for the troubled Lafayette Housing Authority.
Three appeals against the LHA are currently pending.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — More than half a dozen states suing to overturn President Barack Obama's health care law are also claiming its subsidies for covering retired state government employees, according to a list released Tuesday by the ad
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FORT BRAGG, Calif. (AP) - Cammie King Conlon, the actress who portrayed the doomed daughter of Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara in "Gone With the Wind," has died at 76.
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