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• LSU Greek Life partners with Habitat for Humanity to build homes for Baton Rouge families

  25-03-2023 21:43
  
  BATON ROUGE - Volunteers lifted up and nailed walls in place as dozens of LSU students worked to form the foundation of Tiffany Porter’s new home.“It’s just a beautiful thing, and the fact that you are building your own home and helping and learning so many things in the process, sheetrock, sod, it’s everything,” said Porter, the recipient of the home being built. LSU’s Greek organizations and Habitat for Humanity of Greater B
  
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• LSU women's basketball receives unique gift from wife of late Kobe Bryant

  25-03-2023 20:16
  
  The LSU women's basketball team received a special gift from Vanessa Bryant, the wife of late basketball legend Kobe Bryant, who died in January 2020.The team got Kobe 6 Grinches thanks to Vanessa Bryant ?? pic.twitter.com/U9Rqvzus5w— LSU Women's Basketball (@LSUwbkb) March 25, 2023A video posted to the team's Twitter account showed the women receiving Kobe 6 Grinches, a special shoe designed by Kobe that launched in 2010. Permalink| Comments
  
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• Voters will decide fate of contentious proposed Livingston Parish tax tonight

  25-03-2023 19:10
  
  LIVINGSTON PARISH - A new 1% sales tax that would give parish school faculty a raise was on the ballot Saturday.The proposed sales tax would put a one-cent tax on every dollar spent in the parish, excluding groceries, gas, and prescriptions. "We're losing our educators to our surrounding districts," said Livingston Parish School System Superintendent Joe Murphy. "We have six districts around us, and we rank absolutely sixth in pay."I lost 12 teachers to Tangipahoa Parish this year. Twe
  
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• Contentious tax proposal backed by Livingston Parish schools fails in weekend election

  25-03-2023 19:10
  
  LIVINGSTON PARISH - A proposed 1% sales tax that would give parish school faculty a raise failed at the polls after the Mar. 25 election.The proposed sales tax would have put a one-cent tax on every dollar spent in the parish, excluding groceries, gas, and prescriptions with the money going toward raises for teachers and school faculty. "We're losing our educators to our surrounding districts," said Livingston Parish School System Superintendent Joe Murphy. "We have six districts aroun
  
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• Contentious proposed Livingston Parish tax fails in Saturday election

  25-03-2023 19:10
  
  LIVINGSTON PARISH - A proposed 1% sales tax that would give parish school faculty a raise failed at the polls after the Mar. 25 election.The proposed sales tax would have put a one-cent tax on every dollar spent in the parish, excluding groceries, gas, and prescriptions with the money going toward raises for teachers and school faculty. "We're losing our educators to our surrounding districts," said Livingston Parish School System Superintendent Joe Murphy. "We have six districts aroun
  
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• Big crowd for final day of 'Nao Trinidad' visit

  25-03-2023 18:22
  
  BATON ROUGE - A re-creation of the ship captained by Ferdinand Magellan on his historic voyage around the world is headed out of Baton Rouge after a week-and-a-half-long visit.Crowds lined up outside the USS Kidd Veterans Museum to take advantage of the final opportunity to tour the replica.The "Nao Trinidad" docked alongside the "USS Kidd," providing a juxtaposition of life at sea in the 16th and 20th centuries. The "American Queen," a passenger paddlewheeler that cruises the Mississippi, was
  
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• Officials investigating house fire off Plank Road Saturday afternoon

  25-03-2023 17:28
  
  BATON ROUGE - Fire investigators are looking into a house fire on Monarch Avenue Saturday afternoon that left four people displaced. According to the Baton Rouge Fire Department, firefighters arrived to the home just before 1 p.m. Saturday and saw flamed coming from the home's eaves. There were reports that someone was inside at the time of the fire, but when crews investigated, no one was found. The fire was contained to the two rear rooms, but the rest of the house sustained
  
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• LSU defensive line coach Jamar Cain accepts position with the Denver Broncos

  25-03-2023 16:44
  
  BATON ROUGE - LSU defensive line coach Jamar Cain is joining Sean Payton's staff in Denver. The Broncos are hiring Cain to serve as a pass-rush specialist. This is Cain's first NFL job in his 20 years of coaching.Cain also serves as the Tigers' defensive run game coordinator, a unit that finished ranked in the NCAA top-20 on defense. He spent only one season at LSU. Permalink| Comments
  
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• No. 1 LSU baseball sweeps Saturday's double header vs No. 5 Arkansas

  25-03-2023 16:04
  
  BATON ROUGE - It was bounce-back Saturday in games 2 and 3 for the LSU baseball team as the Tigers run ruled Arkansas 12-2 in seven innings in the early game then the Tigers won game 3, 14-5. In game 2 after giving up two runs in the first, Ty Floyd threw five straight scoreless innings to get his fourth win of the season.It was also a much better game at the plate for LSU, as the Tigers had 16 hits, and had three homers. Both Tre Morgan and Dylan crews had three hit games and a home r
  
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• No. 1 LSU baseball run rules No. 5 Arkansas in 7 innings in game 2

  25-03-2023 16:04
  
  BATON ROUGE - It was bounce-back Saturday in game 2 for the LSU baseball team as the Tigers run ruled Arkansas 12-2 in seven innings.After giving up two runs in the first, Ty Floyd threw five straight scoreless innings to get his fourth win of the season.It was also a much better game at the plate for LSU, as the Tigers had 16 hits, and had three homers. Both Tre Morgan and Dylan crews had three hit games and a home run.The Tigers will look to win the series tonight at 6:30. Permalink|
  
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• Volunteers continue efforts to clean, preserve historic Lutheran Cemetery

  25-03-2023 13:23
  
  BATON ROUGE - More than a dozen people gathered in the Lutheran Cemetery on Saturday to weed-eat, mow grass and rake leaves in an ongoing effort to preserve the grounds."There is no one dedicated to taking care of this cemetery except through volunteer work. Because it has such a rich history and shouldn't be neglected, it's an honor," said Sheila Blanchard with Trinity Lutheran Church.Trinity Lutheran Church got involved with the effort ten years ago."There were two main caretakers that were t
  
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• Pennsylvania chocolate factory explodes; 5 dead, 6 missing

  25-03-2023 11:37
  
  WEST READING, Pa. (AP) — An explosion at a chocolate factory in Pennsylvania on Friday killed five people and left six people missing, authorities said.The Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency confirmed the increase in the number of fatalities Saturday morning after the blast just before 5 p.m. Friday at the R.M. Palmer Co. plant in the borough of West Reading.Chief of Police Wayne Holben said the blast destroyed one building and damaged a neighboring building.“It&rs
  
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• Officials: 2 dead, 5 missing in chocolate factory explosion

  25-03-2023 11:37
  
  WEST READING, Pa. (AP) — An explosion at a chocolate factory in Pennsylvania on Friday killed two people and left five people missing, authorities said. One person was pulled from the rubble overnight.Rescue crews using dogs and imaging equipment continued to search through the rubble Saturday — hours after the blast that erupted just before 5 p.m. Friday at the R.M. Palmer Co. plant in the borough of West Reading, about 60 miles (96 kilometers) northwest of Philadelphia.Wes
  
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• 'My city is gone': Tornadoes tear through Mississippi, killing more than 20

  25-03-2023 06:51
  
  ROLLING FORK, Miss. (AP) — Powerful tornadoes tore through parts of the Deep South on Friday night, killing at least 23 people in Mississippi, obliterating dozens of buildings and leaving an especially devastating mark on a rural town whose mayor declared, “My city is gone.”The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency said in a Twitter post that search and rescue teams from local and state agencies were deployed to help victims impacted by the tornadoes. The agency
  
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• Coroner: 13 dead in tornado that ripped through US South

  25-03-2023 06:51
  
  ROLLING FORK, Miss. (AP) — A powerful tornado tore through rural Mississippi and Alabama on Friday night, killing at least 13 people, destroying buildings and knocking out power as severe weather that produced hail the size of golf balls moved through several southern states and prompted authorities to warn some in its path that they were in a “life-threatening situation.”The National Weather Service confirmed a tornado caused damage about 60 miles (96 kilometers)
  
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