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A Milwaukee TV reporter is facing possible felony charges after police say he punched another reporter during a personal argument at the Brewers game on Friday.

More charges are expected to be filed against a Leesville man accused in the rape of a child, says the Vernon Parish Sheriff's Office.

A Leesville man wanted on warrants was found in Livingston Parish, according to Vernon Parish Sheriff Sam Craft.

Current Louisiana law prohibits body armor on school property.

At the age of just 12, Sarah Wilson was made to have sex with multiple men a night while authorities“barely batted an eyelid”, the Rotherham grooming victim has revealed in memoirs of her ordeal.

Elon Musk isn't the only Silicon Valley luminary to delete Facebook pages (or rather, the pages belonging to Tesla and SpaceX) in response to the widening scandal over how Facebook stores, shares,  leverages and sells its users' personal data: on Sunday, Woz also deactivated his account saying the social network had brought him "more negatives than positives."

"I am in the process of leaving Facebook. It's brought me more negatives than positives. Apple has more secure ways to share things about yourself. I can still deal with old school email and text messages."

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak explained his decision in an email to USA Today, saying Facebook makes a lot of advertising money from personal information voluntarily shared with the company.

Woz said he'd rather pay for Facebook - adding that Apple "makes money off of good products, not off of you. As they say, with Facebook, you're the product."

What is far more fascinating to us is that it took years for brilliant people such as Wozniak to grasp what was patently obvious to most others, even if those "others" are what the dormant, quiet and largely daft majority, would call "conspiracy theorists."

Woz said that, while leaving Facebook was difficult, he was astounded by revelations about the comprehensiveness of Facebook's data harvesting.

In an email to USA TODAY, Wozniak said he was taken aback by the extent of Facebook's data collection when he changed and deleted some of his information before deactivating his account.

"I was surprised to see how many categories for ads and how many advertisers I had to get rid of, one at a time. I did not feel that this is what people want done to them," he said. "Ads and spam are bad things these days and there are no controls over them. Or transparency."

Still, breaking up with Facebook isn't easy. Wozniak chose not to delete his Facebook account. He didn't mind bidding farewell to his 5,000 Facebook friends, many of whom he says he doesn't know. But he didn't want to give up his "stevewoz" screen name.

"I don’t want someone else grabbing it, even another Steve Wozniak," he said.

Of course, a paid product doesn't necessarily mean a company won't collect user data and offer to manipulate it on behalf of advertisers, as one Twitter user pointed out...

I pay to subscribe to @nytimes, @WSJ, and @washingtonpost. All of them track me and sell my data through similar #adtech systems. So please don’t argue that if we paid for @facebook everything would be cool.

— Siva Vaidhyanathan🗽🤘🏽 (@sivavaid) April 8, 2018

Woz's repudiation of Zuckerberg and company follows Apple CEO Tim Cook's unexpected criticism of his Silicon Valley peer during an interview with Recode. When asked what he would do if he were in Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's position, Cook replied that he would never be in such a situation.

He added that Apple strenuously reviews apps available in its app store to make sure they respect user privacy.

"We don't subscribe to the view that you have to let everybody in that wants to, or if you don't, you don't believe in free speech," said Cook. "We don't believe that."

Zuckerberg responded to Cook during an interview with Vox, saying he found the Apple CEO's argument to be "extremely glib."

"If you want to build a service which is not just serving rich people, then you need to have something that people can afford," said Zuckerberg.”

Zuckerberg is set to appear before Congress on Tuesday and Wednesday. Meanwhile, his company is facing lawsuits from users and shareholders, along with a potentially devastating FTC investigation and increasing scrutiny in the UK and Brussels.

Chuck McCann, a comedian, voice actor and children's television host, has died at the age of 83.

UPDATE: BRPD officials have identified the victim in this morning's shooting as 18-year-old Brice Anthony Lewis.

Police said Lewis was found in the parking lot suffering from apparent gunshot injuries. Lewis died on scene.

Investigators believe Lewis is the suspect of vehicle burglaries in the area prior to receiving gunshot injuries.

Officials said there are no known suspects at this time.

BATON ROUGE - A man was found shot dead at an apartment complex early Sunday morning.

Police said the man was found around 7 at the Magnolia Gardens apartments on Greenwell Springs Road.  The apartment complex is between Airline and Oak Villa.

The name of the victim has not been released.

Check back for updates. 

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DENHAM SPRINGS - A bicyclist died and a man was arrested after a hit-and-run late Saturday.

State Police said Glenn Banta, 56, of Denham Springs, was driving his pickup on LA 1025 just east of LA 16 when he hit and killed Chad Zimmerle, 38, also of Denham Springs.  Banta, State Police said, left the scene.

The crash happened around 10 p.m. Saturday.  Banta was arrested a few hours later, at 2:30 a.m.

Banta was charged with hit and run and driving under suspension.

Investigators did not release why Banta may have left the scene. 

This crash remains under investigation and additional charges are pending, State Police said in a news release.

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Todd Brassner had been trying to sell his $2.5 million home since Trump was elected in 2016

The owner said she was waiting for a check from her insurance company.

'We take these allegations very seriously'

'Extreme and irresponsible' or 'compassionate and professional'?

A former Sinclair Broadcasting anchor ripped the company for airing national promos against media publishing "fake stories" in an op-ed published on Saturday, saying the corporation has close ties to President Trump....

Opponents viewed last week’s Louisiana House vote, which overwhelmingly approved extending probation terms, as a shot across the bow in the attempt to roll back last year’s sweeping criminal justice rewrite.

Main suspect reportedly had two sharpened knives to carry out stabbings

The Kenner Fire Department responded to a structure fully engulfed in fire this at 12:11 A.M. The residences, located at 418 & 420 Alliance Street...

The woman was arrested on one felony count of cocaine possession and a misdemeanor count of marijuana possession.

Police said they got a call about a mental disturbance at the home, and when they arrived two women told them a man was barricaded inside the house. 

A bicyclist was killed and a Denham Springs man was arrested after a hit-and-run crash late Saturday in Livingston Parish, according to Louisiana State Police.