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• Renowned bravery award renamed to honor 9/11 hero

  September 10, 2020 8:39 AM

  NEW YORK - The New York City Fire Department (FDNY) announced Tuesday, the renaming of The James Gordon Bennett Medal to a Peter J. Ganci, Jr. Award, CNN reports. A September 11th hero who lost his life in the 2001 attack, Peter J. Ganci Jr. Award was a recently... more »

• State officials host Friday meeting to lay out 2020-2021 plan for high school sports Play Video

  September 4, 2020 6:45 AM

  BATON ROUGE - Fans of high school football are in anticipation of a Friday morning meeting that will provide more information about how high school sports programs will be handled during 2020-2021. High school athletic programs have been hampered by the COVID health crisis, with over 150,000 cases of... more »

• Pat Shingleton: "Controlling Lava and the BEST Turkeys"

  November 21, 2019 12:05 AM

  In 1931, the director of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory developed an approach to steer a lava flow from inhabited areas. Dr. Thomas Jaggar believed that by bombing the flow it could be redirected. “Acts of God” reports that by 1934, Jaggar not only plotted the history of the Mauna Loa... more »

• Odell Beckham, Jr. gives entire LSU football squad a pair of his new sneakers Play Video

  November 23, 2017 3:53 PM

  BATON ROUGE – Former LSU Tiger Odell Beckham, Jr., didn't forget his roots Thursday – surprising his former squad with pairs of his new shoe, the Special Field Air Force-1 Mid “OBJ.” The show goes on sale Black Friday and retails for about $160. The shoe is hard... more »

• Baton Rouge drugs traced to deal on I-12 in Tangipahoa

  April 20, 2017 1:40 PM

  HAMMOND – Two individuals were arrested on federal drug charges for allegedly distributing methamphetamine from Baton Rouge to Hammond. Roger David Hammond, Jr., 43, and Charlotte White, 50, were arrested after a joint investigation by the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Office and the Drug Enforcement Administration. The investigation revealed... more »

• APSO searching for missing 29-year-old man from Prairieville

  December 7, 2016 12:28 PM

  ASCENSION – The Ascension Parish Sheriff's Office is searching for a missing 29-year-old man. Darryl Lee Dean Jr. was reported missing from his Prarieville home on Tuesday, Dec. 6. Dean, Jr. is 5'10'', 150 pounds and was last seen wearing blue jean shorts and a blue shirt. ... more »

• Officials to urge lawmakers to maintain preschool funding

  April 13, 2016 9:40 AM

  BATON ROUGE- Orleans Parish District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro, Grambling Chief of Police Tommy Clark, Jr. and City of Port Allen Chief of Police Esdron Brown are set to hold a press conference urging state policy makers to maintain preschool funding. Cannizzaro and Brown will be representing nearly 100 Louisiana police... more »

• EBRSO: Zachary man arrested for rape of EBR woman in February

  March 14, 2016 5:47 PM

  BATON ROUGE - The East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office arrested 35-year-old Samuel Williams, Jr., of Zachary, for the rape of an East Baton Rouge woman that occurred in February. On Sunday, Feb. 21st, Lane Memorial Hospital contacted the sheriff’s office to report that a woman had been raped earlier... more »