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Review: 'Emancipation,' with Will Smith, struggles to do its real-life survival story justice

In March 1863, two months after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, a Black man known as Peter (other accounts name him as Gordon) escaped a Louisiana plantation, endured 10 days in alligator-infested marshes and found his way to Baton Rouge, where he received medical attention and soon enlisted…

Los Angeles Times

Virginia RB Mike Hollins in Critical Condition After Charlottesville Shooting

The junior running back from Baton Rouge, La., will undergo a second surgical procedure on Tuesday.

Sports Illustrated

The Straw Hat Left Behind: How One Nick Saban Legend Was Born

The scene of this tale takes us to Baton Rouge, where the Alabama coach and his Crimson Tide face LSU on Saturday in an SEC showdown.

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Mississippi River's low water level reveals shipwreck

A shipwreck has emerged along the banks of the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, as water levels plummet — threatening to reach record lows in some areas

The Independent UK

‘Holy moly!’ drought-hit Mississippi River reveals 19th-century trading ship

Baton Rouge resident Patrick Ford discovers sunken Brookhill trading ship as lack of rainfall creates record-low water levels

The Guardian - US

Son of Ex-NFL QB Bubby Brister Arrested After Fatal Hit-and-Run

Walter Andrew Brister IV turned himself into police on Wednesday following Saturday’s incident in Baton Rouge

Sports Illustrated

Mystikal denied bond as details emerge in latest sexual-assault case

Mystikal has been denied bond following allegations that he beat, raped and robbed a woman during a financial dispute in his suburban home in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

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Rapper Mystikal, accused of rape, denied bond by judge

A Louisiana judge has refused to set any bond for rapper Mystikal, who is accused of raping and choking a woman at his home outside Baton Rouge

The Independent UK

Canadian owner OKs $84M in work, $1.5M fine; Louisiana plant

Federal and Louisiana agencies say the owner of a closed fertilizer plant near Baton Rouge has agreed to clean up more than a billion pounds of hazardous waste and to pay a $1.5 million fine

The Independent UK

Abortions outlawed in Louisiana after judge ends restraining order

The state’s ‘trigger’ laws will likely force clinics to close until the legal challenge resumes in Baton Rouge

The Independent UK

WATCH: Chiefs RB Clyde Edwards-Helaire training in Baton Rouge

#Chiefs RB Clyde Edwards-Helaire stopped to train with @coach_brodie at @EliteTrainingBR while visiting his hometown and college stomping grounds.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Industrial water use threatens Louisiana capital’s drinking water

Unchecked water use by companies like Exxon risks saltwater intrusion and undrinkable tap water

The Guardian - US

The Farmer’s Daughter Who Helped Keep SEC Football in Motion

Over the last two years, Dr. Katie O’Neal has dealt with everything from Zooms with Nick Saban to online personal attacks.

Sports Illustrated

Sheriff's corporal shot in 2016 Baton Rouge ambush dies

A Baton Rouge sheriff's deputy has died nearly six years after he was injured in an ambush that killed three other law enforcement officers

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Mother and grandmother charged with murder after allegedly forcing 4-year-old to drink a bottle of whiskey

Baton Rouge woman Roxanne Record, 53, fatally forced her granddaughter, 4, to drink whiskey as punishment

Tribune News Service

Girl, 4, dies after being forced to drink whiskey by her grandmother, Louisiana police say

A Louisiana woman who wanted to teach her 4-year-old granddaughter a lesson about drinking forced her to drink half a bottle of whiskey, police in Baton Rouge said.

Sports Illustrated

Brian Kelly, LSU and a $100 Million Gamble

The college football world has been fascinated by the coach’s move to the bayou, but time will tell if the partnership will yield what Kelly and LSU both covet: a national title.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Bengals on hand in Baton Rouge for LSU pro day

Do the Bengals have eyes on more LSU Tigers?

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LSU fired coach Will Wade and all chaos broke loose on the transfer portal

What a disaster in Baton Rouge.

Benzinga

B&W Partners With Fidelis To Provide Advanced Technologies To Assist In Development Of Green Fuels

Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises Inc (B&W) (NYSE:BW) has partnered with Kiewit Industrial to deliver Fidelis New Energy’s planned net-negative carbon impact biomass power plant at the Port of Greater Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Deal terms not disclosed. The planned facility, called Project Cyclus, will provide power for Fidelis’ state-of-the-art, 73,000-barrel-per-day Grön Fuels facility. B&W…

Reason

Louisiana Supreme Court Allows Police Officer's Lawsuit Against Black Lives Matter Organizer

DeRay Mckesson didn’t cause or encourage violence against police in Baton Rouge in 2016. The court says he can still be held responsible.

The Independent UK

Louisiana court: Protest leader can be sued for cop's injury

Louisiana's Supreme Court says a police officer injured when violence broke out over the police killing of a Black man in Baton Rouge in 2016 has grounds to pursue a lawsuit against a protest organizer

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