City 'in Shock' After Boy's Arrest for Double Murder (Daily Rundown by Newser)

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September 3, 2024     The Big Rundown City 'in Shock' After Boy's Arrest for Double Murder After a former Louisiana mayor and his adult daughter were found shot to death inside a home Sunday, a 10-year-old boy offered police an account of what happened. Keep reading   From our sponsors After Testing Dozens of Bed Sheets, These Are #1 Perhaps the best kept secret of luxury hotels and Airbnbs is now available to the public. Miracle Brand sheets use a proprietary silver infused thread that eliminates 99% of the bacteria normally found in cotton bedding. The result is an amazingly soft, self-cooling, and self-cleaning sheet that takes advantage of the heat-dispersing properties of silver. KEEP READING   More Big News DirecTV: Disney Fight Isn't 'Run-of-the-Mill Dispute' It's a safe bet that some DirecTV subscribers who double as sports fans were in a foul mood on Sunday when they sat down to watch US Open tennis or maybe the LSU-USC football game. 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