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  • BRPD fugitive caught in Iberville Parish

    fugitive IBERVILLE PARISH - A man who evaded Baton Rouge Police Friday was captured by Iberville Sheriff's deputies Sunday, according to BRPD Cpl. Tommy Stubbs. The pursuit began Friday night when officers tried to stop a car. The driver, Louis Northern, failed to stop and headed west on I-10. Eventually, Northern exited in Iberville Parish and made his way into West Baton Rouge where ...

  • Centuries of Progress American Worlds Fairs 1853-1984 exhibit opens June 12 at LSU

    Baton Rouge, La - The LSU Student Union Art Advisory Committee is proud to announce the exhibit ‘Centuries of Progress: American World’s Fairs, 1853-1984.’ The upcoming show will be on display in the LSU Union Art Gallery June 12 through July 28 and will present a remarkable overview of more than a century of American World’s Fairs. What do the telephone, the Ferris ...

  • Walk-On’s recruits Chef Jeremy Coco to take menu to next level

    Baton Rouge, La - Walk-On’s Bistreaux & Bar has come a long way since first opening its doors in Baton Rouge nearly a decade ago. Once criticized for its mediocre and inconsistent food, the chain of sports bars in Baton Rouge, Lafayette and New Orleans has spent the last several years refining, streamlining and upgrading its menu as part of its "Food First Mentality." The ...

  • Report VA hospital in N.O. is $370M over budget

    NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Construction of a new Veterans Affairs hospital in New Orleans is $370 million over budget and 14 months behind schedule, according to a government ...

  • Zachary to farm out expelled students

    education ZACHARY, La. - The Zachary Community School Board will hire a private academy to provide programs for middle- and high-school students who are expelled from their regular schools. The Advocate reports that the district's alternative school has been at the Port Hudson Career Academy. Board members have plans to expand Port Hudson's operations to include vocational training ...


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School for Scoundrels

School for Scoundrels

In recent years, Billy Bob Thornton has been banking his career on playing a series of amusingly likable jerks, most notably (and hilariously) in Terry Zwigoff's Bad Santa (2003) and then again in Richard Linklater's limp 2005 remake of Bad News Bears, where he reimagined ... ...

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  • Incoming LSU President and Chancellor F. King Alexander receives humanitarian award

    BATON ROUGE, LA - Incoming LSU President and Chancellor F. King Alexander was honored, along with three other Long Beach community leaders, with the California Conference for Equality and Justice, or CCEJ, Humanitarian Award on Wednesday, May 15. Alexander; Ivy Goolsby, marketing director and manager of the Long Beach Division of International Realty & Investments Inc.; J. Christopher ...

  • New Orleans teen sets home on fire while playing with a lighter

    NEW ORLEANS, LA (WWL-TV) - A 13-year-old who said he was playing with a lighter, started a fire that destroyed his home Saturday afternoon. The incident occurred around 4:30 in the 3700 block of North Robertson. A fire department spokesman said the child called 911 and told dispatchers that his home was on fire. Five minutes later the first units arrived on the scene and were able to ...

  • Small Fla. city wonders who won Powerball jackpot

    (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins). Armous Peterson figures out what numbers he is going to play in the Powerball lottery at Jimmy's Mart on Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Columbia, ...

  • Walker will donate land for dog park

    park WALKER, La. - Dogs in Walker will soon have a playground all to themselves. Mayor Rick Ramsey tells The Advocate that the city will donate land near the lake at Sidney Hutchinson Park to be used as a community dog park. The idea, the mayor says, was suggested by local SPCA president Terri Dunlap. Architect Jamie Seal surveyed the land with Dunlap and other SPCA members this past week ...

  • LSU Junior Logan de La Barre-Hays Receives U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship

    Baton Rouge, La - LSU junior Logan de La Barre-Hays, a native of Jackson, Miss., has been awarded a U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship, or CLS, to study a critical language during the summer of 2013. De La Barre-Hays is an Honors College and College of Humanities & Social Sciences student who is double majoring in both international studies and political science with ...

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