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Sources tell 9 News that 41-year-old Sean Vincent Gillis has confessed to eight murders, including the murder of Ann Bryan. The elderly woman was stabbed more than 50 times inside her residence at St. James Place on Lee Drive back in March of 1994. Gillis now has additional charges of first degree murder, aggravated kidnapping and stalking in the Schmidt case and first degree murder in the Bryan case. Investigations into the possibility of Gillis's involvement in other unsolved murders in the BR Metro and surrounding areas is continuing. The Serial Killer Task Force and the Homicide Task Force are...

MORGAN CITY -- Vice President Dick Cheney and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia spent part of this week on a private duck hunting trip with friends in the marshes south Louisiana. Both shot their bag limits on Tuesday three mallards and three teal, Sheriff David Naquin said. The pair and their entourage arrived in Morgan City on Monday on a pair of Gulfstream V jets. Ken Perry, an official at Harry P. Williams Memorial Airport, said, "It just sent chills up my spine" when he heard on the radio that Air Force 2 was on approach. Any airplane carrying the...

Karzai reopens key Afghan highway Afghan President Hamid Karzai has reopened a key highway linking the capital Kabul with the southern city of Kandahar, a former Taleban stronghold. The prestigious highway reconstruction project was one of his government's key goals following the fall of the Taleban two years ago. The 482 kilometre (303 miles) highway was originally built with the help of American funds in the early 1960s. But years of conflict had turned it into a dusty, potholed, dirt track. Correspondents say the improvement of the road will cut the travel time between the two cities from 16 hours...

Bill Gates' father argues case to keep estate tax By CHAD CALDER Advocate business writer The father of the wealthiest man in the country was in Baton Rouge on Wednesday to drum up support for the estate tax, which he said promotes equality and supports democracy by slowing the accumulation of wealth and power in the hands of the few. Bill Gates Sr., father of Microsoft founder Bill Gates, told members of the Louisiana Association of Nonprofit Organizations that supporters of the movement to abolish the estate tax ignore the role of good fortune in wealth creation. Indeed, Chuck Collins,...

Army Spec. 4 Don L. McCastle of Baker got a sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach last week when his sergeant told him to report on the double to the sergeant major's office. Enlisted personnel at the grade of E-4 usually don't get called to an E-9's office for social visits. McCastle told his grandfather that he immediately thought, "Oh no, what have I done now?" The mystery heightened when the sergeant major told McCastle to take a seat on the sofa and relax, then explained that McCastle was to go back to his Baghdad barracks, put on...

Yoder death linked to serial killerSerial killer task force will take control of investigation DNA evidence links the recent murder of Carrie Lynn Yoder to the unsolved deaths of four other south Louisiana women, Police chief Pat Englade said Tuesday. Yoder, 26, an LSU graduate student from Tampa, Fla., was found dead of asphyxiation Thursday, more than a week after she was reported missing from her Baton Rouge home. Authorities have linked the murders of Gina Wilson Green, Charlotte Murray Pace, and Pam Kinamore, all of the Baton Rouge area, and Trineisha Dene Colomb of Lafayette over the past year...

Carrie Yoder's body found in Whiskey BayWHISKEY BAY - Authorities have told the parents of 26-year-old Carrie Yoder that a body found floating off Interstate 10 earlier in the day was that of their daughter, a source close to the family said Thursday evening. "They have essentially indicated that it is Carrie," said Yoder's doctoral professor and mentor at LSU, Bill Platt. "We are very certain of who the body is. Platt said he was sitting with Yoder's parents early Thursday evening when what he called "official sources" relayed the news. He said "pieces of identification" the family provided to...

Body Discovered At Whiskey Bay (Louisiana Serial Killer Update) Authorities say they have found what they think is the body of an unidentified white female at Whiskey Bay. Authorities got the call from a fisherman who discovered the partially clothed body. You'll remember this is the same place that 44-year-old Pam Kinamore's body was found by DOTD workers nearly eight months ago. DNA tests would later link Kinamore as the third confirmed victim of the serial killer. Iberville Parish Sheriff's Department has set up a command post, blocking off access to the Whiskey Bay exit off of Interstate-10.

Police & Task Force Searching For Missing LSU Graduate Student Baton Rouge Police and the serial killer task force are searching for missing 26 year old Carrie Yoder, who was last seen Monday evening. Yoder is a Graduate Assistant at LSU and is majoring in Plant Biology. Yoder's home at 4250 Dodson is just south of the LSU Gates. Police have roped off the home with crime scene tape and canvassed the neighborhood for any clues surrounding Yoder's disappearance. Yoder's white Chevy Cavalier was towed away to be combed for evidence. However, no information was being released on what was...

President Bush's memo attacking security leaks by Congress and limiting further briefings disappointed Republican senators and House members, who privately express surprise that he did not shield this problem from public view. Members of the intelligence committees would have preferred that the leak (which was never published) be handled behind closed doors with the guilty party cut off from further information. But Bush wanted to deliver a public spanking. White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card is blamed by senior Republicans in Congress for letting the president vent his wrath. They speculate that the memo never would have surfaced under ...

Lynne Cheney, wife of the vice president, disputed educators who want to teach more multiculturalism in the wake of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, promoting instead an America-first curriculum. ``If there were one aspect of schooling from kindergarten through college to which I would give added emphasis today it would be American history,'' Mrs. Cheney said Friday in remarks prepared for a speech to the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture. Cheney, a well-known critic of political correctness and former chairwoman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, took issue with published comments by the deputy chancellor for instruction in ...

Yngwie Malmsteen Tells Brazilian Audience “God Bless America And F*** You All” After “Star Spangled Banner” Is Booed A small riot broke out during guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen’s headlining show in Porto Alegre, Brazil on Tuesday, October 2nd after the guitarist performed his rendition of the “Star Spangled Banner.” “Midway through the set, Yngwie finished his guitar solo spot with the ‘Star Spangled Banner,’” says touring keyboardist Derek Sherinian (formerly of prog-rock titans Dream Theater). “The crowd of about 1,500 people started immediately booing very loudly, and throwing shit on stage.” The crowd’s behavior forced the band members to storm off ...

WASHINGTON - "'Twas an hour after schedule and all through the East Room, not a president was stirring. At least none too soon." President Clinton - who is well-known for his tardy ways - kept 41 young school children waiting for 59 minutes Tuesday for the annual reading of Clement Clarke Moore's poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas," first published in 1823. Clinton spent seven minutes with the children after he finally did show up with Hillary Rodham Clinton, the senator-elect for New York, and daughter Chelsea. "Did you all have a good time?" Clinton asked. The children offered a ...

LOS ANGELES, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Oxygen Media, a cable and Internet network aimed at women, said on Wednesday it will cut 44 full-time and 21 part-time employees, just less than 10 percent of its staff. ``We re streamlining Oxygen's online business by redirecting our resources and staffing, and consolidating our operations in New York,'' said Geraldine Laybourne, chairman and chief executive officer. The company will also close its Seattle office. The restructuring comes days after the company announced that billionaire Paul Allen's Vulcan Ventures company invested $100 million. Laybourne said the investment and the company's online reorganization should keep ...