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• East Feliciana Parish leaders won't remove Confederate statue Play Video

  July 6, 2020 9:12 AM

  CLINTON - The East Feliciana Parish Police Jury voted to keep a 111-year-old Confederate statue outside of the East Feliciana courthouse. A vote from leaders came Monday evening after earlier discussions on if the statue should be removed. The 30-foot-tall statue of a Confederate soldier has been in front... more »

• Wave of criminal activity ends with gunfire in BR neighborhood

  July 19, 2017 12:57 AM

  BATON ROUGE – Police have worked somewhere in the neighborhood of three-dozen investigations in the Old South Baton Rouge area since the beginning of the month data posted on the city's Citizen Connect portal shows. A check of reports of crimes came Wednesday morning after a wave of overnight... more »

• LSU fraternity to change name of 'Old South' ball

  January 14, 2016 7:16 PM

  BATON ROUGE - The Kappa Alpha Order at LSU will discontinue use of “Old South” and similar names for future events, according to a statement from fraternity leadership released to the school newspaper. “The Executive Council, or national board of directors, of Kappa Alpha Order recently amended an existing... more »