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Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, arrive at the Kennedy Center Honors gala dinner in Washington in 2023.
Son of Rob Reiner arrested in killings Filmmaker, wife found fatally stabbed at home
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Parents Jordan Brister, left, and Brittany Brister steady their daughter Brayleigh Brister, 2, as she ice skates for ther first time on opening night of Skating on the River at the Raising Canes River Center on Thursday.
Lizzie Wicker skates on opening night at the Raising Canes River Center. From left, Kylee Bowers, 11, joins her sister Shelby Bowers, 13, and friend Bailey Henry, 13, as they steady themselves on the ice on opening night of Skating on the River.
LOS ANGELES — Rob Reiner, the son of a comedy giant who became one himself as one of the preeminent filmmakers of his generation with movies such as “The Princess Bride,” “When Harry Met Sally …” and “This Is Spinal Tap,” has died. He was 78. Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, 70, were found fatally stabbed Sunday at their home in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Police Department on Monday arrested the Reiners’ 32-year-old son, Nick Reiner, and booked him on suspicion of killing his parents. Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDonnell said officers responded to the Reiner home about 3:40 p.m. Sunday. Detectives from the Robbery-Homicide Division “worked throughout the night” and took Nick Reiner into custody. Family friends told The Los Angeles Times that Rob and Nick Reiner got into an argument Saturday evening at a party at Conan O’Brien’s home and that many people noticed Nick acting strangely at the party. Nick Reiner, who had struggled with addiction for years, was living in a guesthouse on his parents’ property, family friends told the Times, and his mother had become increasingly concerned about his mental health in recent weeks. The family friends, who did not want to be identified because of the nature of the crime, said the Reiners’ daughter found her parents Sunday afternoon. Nick Reiner was taken into custody at 9:15 p.m. Sunday and booked at 5:04 a.m. Monday, jail records show. He is being held on $4 million bail.
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LSU restructuring angers lawmakers
FBI: Terror plot nets Lafayette-area arrest BY JAMES FINN
They see threat to Shreveport medical school
leans, some fear it means a loss of independence and funding in an increasingly centralized system. Shreveport Sens. Thomas Pressly, a Republican, and Sam Jenkins, a Democrat, BY HALEY MILLER condemned a recent reorStaff writer ganization at LSU that reJust how big of a change moved the position of chanis the restructuring at LSU? cellor from LSU Health System President Wade Shreveport and renamed the Rousse has said it amounts head of the health sciences to title changes to “push the university “senior vice chanLSU system to new heights.” cellor.” But, for institutions not in ä See LSU, page 7A Baton Rouge or New Or-
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State Sen. Thomas Pressly, R-Shreveport, has condemned a recent reorganization at LSU that removed the position of chancellor from LSU Health Shreveport.
Federal authorities arrested a suspect over the weekend near Lafayette who they accuse of being in an extremist group and planning a New Year’s Eve attack, officials said Monday. The FBI director, Kash Patel, on social media said the Louisiana arrestee was part of a “radical subgroup” of the Turtle Island Liberation Front, a pro-Palestinian “anti-government” organization, prosecutors said.
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Federal officials also announced Monday the arrests of four alleged members of the group in Los Angeles who are accused of hatching their own bombing plot on the West Coast. The Louisiana suspect was “planning a separate violent attack,” Patel said, without naming the person on social media. It is unclear whether that attack was planned for California, Louisiana or elsewhere. Officials have not identified any signs of
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