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NOP96022003-20FEB96-NEW ORLEANS, LA, USA: Thousands of Mardi Gras revelers pack Bourbon St. in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Feb. 20, as celebrations of Mardi Gras day take place. UPI aj/a.j.sisco

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Bail set at $10M New Orleans Mother's Day shooting suspect
Bail set at $10M New Orleans Mother's Day shooting suspect
New Orleans Mother's Day parade shooting suspect Akein Scott's bail has been set at $10 million, a judge decided Thursday.
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Suit alleges beating by New Orleans police
An Alabama man claims in a federal lawsuit he was beaten by New Orleans police while handcuffed to a bench during the 2012 Mardi Gras.
3rd man arrested in Mardi Gras shooting
A third suspect has been arrested for a quadruple shooting on New Orleans' Bourbon Street during the city's Mardi Gras festivities, police said.
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Urine tossed from New Orleans parade float
A reveler who allegedly threw urine from a pre-Mardi Gras parade float has been banned from the event and is under investigation, New Orleans police said.
Mardi Gras beatings investigated
A videotaped encounter between white state troopers and two young black men during New Orleans' Mardi Gras should be investigated, a civil rights group says.
Two now charged in Mardi Gras shooting
Two now charged in Mardi Gras shooting
A second man has been arrested in the shooting of four people during weekend Mardi Gras celebrations, New Orleans police say.
Arrest made in Mardi Gras shooting
New Orleans police said Monday a suspect in a Bourbon Street shooting during Mardi Gras festivities that wounded four people had turned himself in.
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A members of the Hamas security forces patrol the border area between Gaza and Egypt, in the southern Gaza Strip May 20, 2013. Egyptian police angered by the kidnapping of seven colleagues by Islamist gunmen kept a crossing into the Gaza Strip closed again for four days, stranding hundreds of Palestinian travellers, As Tunnels between Egypt and Gaza closed and border was declared as military zone. Palestinian security forces patrol around the border, witnesses said. UPI/Ismael Mohamad