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LCPD

LCPD

ERIC SCOTT RADIO | LAKE CHARLES, LA. — On Wednesday, May 22, 2013 at 1 AM Officers with the Lake Charles Police Department were dispatched to the area of Barbe Street and Shell Beach Dr. reference to suspicious persons/activity. Officers were advised that a black male was observed walking around pulling on vehicle doors in the neighborhood.

Officers located a subject matching the description riding a bicycle at Barbe Court and Sallier St. Upon field contact with this individual Officer’s investigation revealed that the subject was in possession of stolen property from several different residences in the area. Officers located the home owners and they confirmed the property in the suspect’s possession was their property.
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LCPD

LCPD

ERIC SCOTT RADIO | LAKE CHARLES, LA. — On May 21, 2013 at approx 10:42 p.m., Corporal K. Bertrand was dispatched to 810 Gulf Street in reference to a burglary. When the home owners returned, they noticed their home had been burglarized.

A suspect was found hiding in the residence and detained by relatives of the home owner. Corporal K. Bertrand arrested Eldridge Smith for burglary and theft. The stolen property that was recovered on Smith was returned to the home owners. Detective K. Thomas was called to handle the follow-up investigation on this case.
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AP

AP

Wind, humidity and rainfall combined precisely to create the massive killer tornado in Moore, Okla. And when they did, the awesome amount of energy released over that city dwarfed the power of the atomic bomb that leveled Hiroshima.

Meteorologists contacted by The Associated Press used real time measurements to calculate the energy released during the storm’s life span of almost an hour. Their estimates ranged from 8 times to more than 600 times the power of the Hiroshima bomb.
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Yahoo

Yahoo

Yahoo is buying online blogging forum Tumblr for $1.1 billion as CEO Marissa Mayer tries to rejuvenate an Internet pioneer that had fallen behind the times.

The deal announced Monday is Mayer’s boldest move since she left Google 10 months ago to lead Yahoo’s latest comeback attempt. It marks Yahoo’s most expensive acquisition since the Sunnyvale, Calif., company bought online search engine Overture a decade ago for $1.3 billion in cash and stock.
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AP

AP

In a joint investigation that has spanned almost a year, Sheriff Tony Mancuso and District Attorney John DeRosier announced the arrest of William Felix Vail, 73, for the murder of his wife, Mary Horton Vail, in October 1962. Vail was arrested at his home located in Canyon Lake, Texas which is between San Antonio and Austin. Both DeRosier and Mancuso said this is undoubtedly the coldest case that either of their offices has investigated.
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AP

AP

Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress Wednesday that a serious national security leak required the secret gathering of telephone records at The Associated Press as he stood by an investigation in which he insisted he had no involvement.

Pestered by Republicans and some Democrats, Holder testified that he has faith in the individuals conducting the broad investigation, driven in large part by GOP outrage last year over the possibility that administration officials leaked information to enhance President Barack Obama’s national security reputation in an election year.
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AP

AP

China’s military on Monday conducted the first test of a new ground-launched anti-satellite missile that was fired into space and disguised as a space-exploration rocket, according to U.S. officials.

The test was carried out early Monday from the Xichang Space Launch center and was identified by officials as the new Dong Ning-2 ASAT missile.
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