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Everyone knew who Frank Page was when I came into the Clear Channel building back in 2003.  Everyone but me.  I might have heard his name a time or two in years before, but I knew little of just how big a personality he was in the radio world

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Gore Vidal, the writer of such novels as ‘Myra Breckinridge,’ plays such as ‘The Best Man,’ and screenwriter on such films as ‘Suddenly Last Summer’ and ‘Caligula,’ has died from complications from pneumonia. He was 86.

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Sherman Hemsley, a television fixture of the ’70s and ’80s, has died at his home in El Paso, Texas at age 74. His passing is being attributed to “natural causes.”

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Louisiana State Police Troop G investigated a one vehicle fatal crash on Harris Road, 3 miles south of US Highway 79 in Claiborne Parish, which claimed the life of a Homer man.

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The Shreveport Fire Department responded to a call of a man hit by a large dump truck Tuesday afternoon.

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Police are investigating a three-vehicle crash that claimed the life of a local man. At about 7:45 this morning, police were called to a major crash in the 7500 block of Line Avenue, near the intersection of Turner Lane

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Eric Dale Mickelson was sentenced to death by lethal injection for the murder of Charles Martin.

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Longtime Caddo Parish educator and administrator Wanda Gunn died today after a short battle with cancer.

Gunn, most recently was the Executive Area Director of School Performance, having been tasked with keeping up with the district's student standardized testing scores.  Gunn worked for the school system for 51 years.  

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Elizabeth Taylor, a voluptuous violet-eyed actress who lived a life of luster and anguish and spent more than six decades as one of the world's most visible women for her two Academy Awards, eight marriages, ravaging illnesses and work in AIDS philanthropy, died Wednesday at age 79.

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BATON ROUGE - The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals today confirmed the death of a 13-year-old East Texas boy in a Shreveport hospital due to complications from H1N1 flu.  Elysian Fields Middle School student Trenton Lindsey died Tuesday night. 

"Our hearts and prayers go out to this child's family and friends," said DHH Secretary Bruce D. Greenstein.  "It is important we all remain vigilant for symptoms of flu-like illness, and be serious about taking preventative measures against the spread of flu." 

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