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Explosives movers look up, empty town

By HOLBROOK MOHR AND KEVIN MCGILL THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Posted: December 4, 2012 at 5:03 a.m.

Weather threatens to complicate the transfer of roughly 6 million pounds of explosives that were haphazardly stored at an industrial site in northwestern Louisiana and led to the evacuation of a small town, a state police spokesman said Monday.

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