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LSU women's college basketball head coach Kim Mulkey, front right, points out one of the heroes of the team's NCAA National Championship run, LaDazhia Williams, who stands holding the trophy at a celebration inside the Pete Maravich Assembly Center in Baton Rouge, La., Monday, April 3, 2023. (Travis Spradling/The Advocate via AP)

LSU Tigers’ national championship women’s team honored with parade, key to city

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FILE - Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon speaks at an event, Sept. 16, 2019, in Baton Rouge, La. Donelon, who has held the position of commissioner for a record 17 years, announced Tuesday, March 14, 2023, that he will not seek reelection in October. (AP Photo/Melinda Deslatte, File)

Louisiana Insurance Commissioner will not seek reelection

By Sara Cline - Associated Press

Wind blows snow Friday, Dec. 23, 2022, across U.S. 36 in Hendricks County, Ind. Winter weather is blanketing the U.S. as a massive storm sent temperatures crashing and created whiteout conditions. (Mykal McEldowney/The Indianapolis Star via AP)

Store clerk fired for throwing water on a homeless person in freezing weather

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

Law enforcement from across Mississippi gather in the Meridian High School gymnasium for a memorial service for Meridian Police Department Officer Kennis Croom in Meridian, Miss., Thursday, June 16, 2022. Croom was killed during a domestic disturbance call on June 9. (Thomas Howard/The Meridian Star via AP)

Society must reestablish respect for law enforcement

By Scott G. Erickson

LSU head coach Ed Orgeron congratulates players after a score against Vanderbilt in the second half of an NCAA college football game Saturday, Oct. 3, 2020, in Nashville, Tenn. LSU won 41-7. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

Hurricane forces move of LSU-Missouri game out of Louisiana

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FILE - In this July 5, 2016, file image taken from video, Alton Sterling is restrained by two Baton Rouge police officers, one holding a gun, outside a convenience store in Baton Rouge, La. The Baton Rouge police chief is apologizing to the city and to the family of a black man shot and killed by a former police officer in 2016. Chief Murphy Paul said at a Thursday, Aug. 1,2019, news conference that Officer Blane Salamoni should have never been hired. (Arthur Reed via AP, File)

Chief apologizes over hiring of officer who shot black man

By REBECCA SANTANA - Associated Press

Karon Hill, left, and Celeste Cruz battle the wind and rain from Hurricane Barry as it nears landfall Saturday, July 13, 2019, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Barry crawls ashore in Louisiana, weakens to tropical storm

By Sarah Blake Morgan and Janet McConnaughey - Associated Press

Crime scene tape lies discarded in a next-door parking lot dumpster, seen Saturday, June 29, 2019, near Stadium Ultralounge &amp; Bar, background right, obscured by trees, where multiple people were injured in a shooting earlier in the day, in Baton Rouge, La. (Travis Spradling/The Advocate via AP)

7 hurt when gunfire erupts at Louisiana nightclub

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The Latest: 5 hurt in possible tornado at oil company plant

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Baton Rouge released from court pact on fire, police hiring

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This undated photo provided by the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office shows Reynard Green. The Louisiana State Police on Monday, April 22, 2019, revealed an extraordinary security breach at the Governor’s Mansion, saying they had arrested a man last week who trespassed into the building and damaged property before falling asleep on a couch. Green was booked Wednesday on counts including simple burglary, criminal trespass and criminal damage to property. It was not immediately clear whether he had an attorney. (East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office via AP)

APNewsBreak: Police: Louisiana gov’s mansion intruder jailed

By JIM MUSTIAN and KEVIN McGILL - Associated Press

Alabama quarterback Tua Tagovailoa (13) celebrates as he leaves the field after an NCAA college football game against Tennessee Saturday, Oct. 20, 2018, in Knoxville, Tenn. Alabama won 58-21. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)

Prime-time matchup: Tua Tagovailoa takes on LSU secondary

By JOHN ZENOR - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 22, 1962, file photo, Green Bay Packers fullback Jim Taylor (31) is brought down by Detroit Lions' Dick Lane in the third quarter of an NFL football game in Detroit. The Hall of Fame fullback died early Saturday, Oct. 13, 2018, the Packers announced. He was 83. (AP Photo/Preston Stroup, File)

Jim Taylor, fierce fullback for mighty Packers, dies at 83

By GENARO C. ARMAS - Associated Press

Baton Rouge’s next Catholic bishop introduced

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In this June 11, 2018 photo, Denise Lee, the mother of resident Chadrick D. Lee, stands near where he was fatally shot on Nov. 5, 2017, outside his apartment building in Baton Rouge, La. Lee holds a photograph of her son and his diploma from East Feliciana High School. Lee has spent hundreds of hours combing through social media, interrogating her own family members and pleading with potential witnesses, hoping her words will resonate enough for someone somewhere to come forward with information. (Travis Spradling/The Advocate via AP)

Unsolved Baton Rouge slayings leave crushed families

By BY LEA SKENE - Associated Press

Missouri prosecutor filmed fatal shooting as TV cameraman

By HARRISON KEEGAN - Associated Press

In this Friday, April 27, 2018 photo, a Great White Heron appears through trees on Bayou Sorrel in the Atchafalaya River Basin in La. A company building a crude oil pipeline is asking a federal appeals court to throw out a judge's order that had suspended construction work in an environmentally fragile swamp. A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is scheduled to hear arguments Monday, April 30, by attorneys for Bayou Bridge Pipeline LLC, federal regulators and environmental groups opposed to the project. In February, a judge temporarily stopped all pipeline construction work in the Atchafalaya Basin. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Federal judge skeptical about pipeline’s impact on wetlands

By JUAN A. LOZANO - Associated Press

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Louisiana officer appeals suspension in black man’s shooting

By Michael Kunzelman - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 6, 2016 file photo, photos of Alton Sterling are taped to the wall at a makeshift memorial outside the Triple S convenience store in Baton Rouge, La. Sterling, was shot and killed outside the store where he was selling CDs by Baton Rouge police. On Tuesday, March 27, 2018, Louisiana's attorney general ruled out criminal charges against two white Baton Rouge police officers in the fatal shooting of Sterling. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Slain black man’s family angry: White officers not charged

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 27, 2017 photo, Ronald Smith gets on his bicycle after stopping at the Triple S Food Mart, where Alton Sterling was shot by police one year ago, in Baton Rouge, La. Louisiana's attorney general plans to meet Tuesday, March 27, 2018, with relatives of Sterling, a black man who was shot and killed by a white Baton Rouge police officer, to inform them whether his office will charge either of the two officers involved in the deadly struggle, according to two family lawyers. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Decision expected Tuesday on charges in Alton Sterling death

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN - Associated Press