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A River Ridge mother allegedly barricaded herself in another person's apartment early Sunday morning as Jefferson Parish Sheriff 's Office deputies attempted to investigate a claim that she had left her 5-year-old daughter home alone for several hours. In addition to child desertion, Shannon Hill, 37, was booked with false imprisonment for allegedly refusing to allow the apartment's resident to leave, according to Glen T. Boyd, spokesman for the department. JPSO Shannon Hill Boyd said an unidentified person flagged down a passing deputy just after midnight Sunday to tell them that a little girl in the the area of Cumberland Street in River Ridge had been home alone for several hours. The tipster told deputies the girl's mother was nearby, possibly doing drugs, Boyd said. Deputies spent almost an hour searching for the girl before they found her inside of a Cumberland Street home . Authorities had to contact the residence's landlord to get inside the house.  O...

This month, a man was arrested in Oklahoma City for trying to detonate 1,000 pounds of explosives in a cargo van parked downtown . The attack, he hoped, would cripple the government and start a revolution. Last October, three men were arrested in Kansas for plotting to bomb an apartment complex and a mosque using four cars laden with explosives. In these febrile days, where terrorists have sought to wreak fear and chaos from Orlando to Paris, and now Barcelona, you’d expect wall-to-wall coverage on cable news about these foiled plots. Terrorism experts would be wheeled out to opine for hours on all angles, from the explosives used to the profile of the would-be attackers to how and why they were radicalized. Instead, the two incidents got barely any coverage — some brief news spots here and there and a few mentions online. Ask any Arab-American or Muslim in America why those incidents weren’t covered ad nauseam and they’ ll reply deadpan : because the would-be attackers were white. So...

Megyn Kelly is excited about bonding with her fellow human beings . She’s so excited she’s bouncing in her chair, hands waving, as she talks about empowerment and laughter and tears. It’s a recent summer evening , and we’re in her living room on Manhattan’s Upper West Side —a simple space of modern furniture, earth tones, and bookshelves (mostly hardcover novels, De­Mille to Franzen). The apartment is quiet, uncharacteristically so, as her husband, the tech CEO turned novelist Douglas Brunt , and their children—sons Yates and Thatcher, eight and four, and six-year-old daughter Yardley—are all at the beach. Kelly, barefoot in a loose cream-colored sweater and black leggings, is telling me about her new perch at NBC and the morning show, Megyn Kelly Today , that’s set to debut later this month. Not that she can get into specifics. Occupying what used to be the 9:00 a.m. hour of the Today show, her new venture, she says, will have a live studio audience and guests of various sorts. It w...