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Thursday, December 4, 2008 | Updated: 7:30 p.m.
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4:30 p.m. - WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. automakers drew fresh skepticism from lawmakers Thursday in a rocky confrontation over their pleas for an expanded $34 billion rescue package they say they need to survive. Congressional analysts said one bailout plan under consideration would fall short of what the carmakers want.

12:05 a.m. - CARVILLE — Family members, soldiers and other well-wishers gathered Wednesday to send off 11 members of the Louisiana National Guard’s 415th Military Intelligence Battalion, departing today for training and then a year-long deployment in Afghanistan.

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Video still A proposal approved on Thursday calls for shutting down Earl K. Long hospital and integrating it with Our Lady of the Lake. News 2's Mike Steele explains why the plan is already drawing mixed reaction.
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Georgia Tech on Wednesday accepted a bid to the Chick-fil-A Bowl. Will LSU be next? “Isn’t speculation pretty strong that it’s the Atlanta, Chick-fil-A Bowl?,” LSU coach Les Miles said Tuesday.
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Baton Rouge police officers investigating a possible burglary of Splash Nightclub this morning came under fire and shot a 29-year old club employee who was found inside the business.
•   12:05 a.m. Driver runs over deputy
 

Gov. Bobby Jindal is pursuing civil confinement for sex offenders after being thwarted in his efforts to keep a convicted child rapist under a death sentence.
•   12:05 a.m. Jindal leaves for Texas
 

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Oil tumbled below $44 a barrel Thursday and average gasoline prices slipped under $1.80 a gallon, both four year lows, as unemployment benefit claims hit a 26-year high and major companies announced more job cuts.
•   11:15 a.m. AT&T to cut 12,000 jobs
 

The new East Baton Rouge Parish school superintendent should be a proven leader who has a record of turning around failing schools and has prior administrative experience in a school system, according to a report based on community input and compiled by a private search firm.
 

 

Video still A proposal approved on Thursday calls for shutting down Earl K. Long hospital and integrating it with Our Lady of the Lake. News 2's Mike Steele explains why the plan is already drawing mixed reaction.
 
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Akon ATLANTA (AP) -- Akon's explosive rise to the top of the music charts was fueled by feel-good songs and naughty grooves — but his criminal past was always an underlying part of his success. His breakthrough album was titled "Konvicted," his music company is called Konvict, and the clank of prison bars are often heard in his music.
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Frank Martin (Jason Statham) and Valentina (Natalya Rudakova) in "Transporter 3." The “Transporter,” Frank Martin (Jason Statham), crashes back into a box office near you this holiday season in what will be the franchise’s third installment. If you haven’t seen the original film, or its sequel, then let me introduce you to Frank Martin.
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