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'Terrible situation' involving dilapidated house, homeless moving into neighborhood
BATON ROUGE - More homeowners in the Inniswold Estates and Jefferson Terrace neighborhoods are talking about their experiences with the homeless population living at a property on one of their streets. Several people tell 2 On Your Side they're requesting the property be cleaned up and that someone restore the...
Baby supply giveaway to take place Saturday afternoon at Bethany Church
BATON ROUGE - A baby supply giveaway is taking place Saturday, July 20 at Bethany Church. The giveaway will take place at the South Campus at 11107 Honore Lane. Items such as diapers, wipes and formula will be given away. Supplies will be given away on a first come, first...
ESPN names Tiger Stadium the best college football stadium in America
BATON ROUGE — Ahead of its 100th anniversary celebration, Tiger Stadium has been named the best college football stadium in the country in a new ESPN poll of college football writers. According to ESPN, 14 of ESPN college football writers ranked the best stadiums in the sport with "no...
Preseason SEC Football media poll is released with shocking results for LSU
This week, the world got to experience the chaos that SEC Media is especially with two of college football's biggest brands Texas and Oklahoma joining the SEC. Upon the conclusion of SEC Media Days the Preseason SEC Polls and All-SEC teams are announced with some shocking results for the LSU Football team.
Four-star LSU commit shuts down recruitment, affirms pledge
LSU is as hot as anyone in the country on the recruiting trail right now. It’s been a strong couple of months for the Tigers. A key addition during the stretch was the commitment of four-star pass rusher Damien Shanklin. Shanklin, out of Indiana, committed to LSU on July 5. According to 247Sports, he’s the No. 5 ranked edge in his class. On3’s industry rankings have Shanklin as a top-100 overall prospect, one of seven top 100 players in LSU’s class. More good news came for LSU earlier this week when Shanklin officially shutting down his recruitment. “I will be closing my recruiting...
Town of Washington in St. Landry Parish chosen as site for industrial coatings manufacturer
WASHINGTON, La. (KADN) — An industrial coatings manufacturer is set to build a $13 million facility on a plot of land off I-49 in the Town of Washington. New Southland Industrial Coatings hopes to have construction completed by the spring of next year.
Louisiana constitution 'is broken': GOP donor Lane Grigsby again pitches rewrite
Lane Grigsby, a Baton Rouge business owner and Republican megadonor who chaired Gov. Jeff Landry's "constitutional reform" transition committee, this week made yet another pitch for a rewrite of the state constitution. Grigsby spoke to media and the public at a Baton Rouge Press Club luncheon on Monday. It was...
Curious Louisiana tells the story of a Louisiana Olympian who competed in Hitler's shadow
He was 17 years old and had never traveled outside of Louisiana. Yet, there William Tennant Brown sat on an ocean liner bound for Berlin, his teammates by his side. The year was 1936, and Brown would be competing against the world in the shadow of Adolf Hitler. One of his teammates, a young African American man named Jesse Owens would win four gold medals.
Jury finds Slidell man guilty of distributing fentanyl
COVINGTON --- District Attorney Collin Sims reports that on July 19, 2024, a St. Tammany Parish jury deliberated less than an hour before returning guilty verdicts against 43-year-old Majuangy Evans of Slidell for Distribution of Fentanyl, Conducting a transaction involving proceeds known to be derived from a drug law violation and Possession of Methamphetamine.
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