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...[VOICE CLIP]At Baton Rouge, where Alton Sterling was shot by officers while pinned to the ground last Tuesday. Protesters there were confronted by a militarized police force....
...“The last few years have been insane, to say the least”, says Barry Keim, a climatologist and hurricane expert from Baton Rouge, Louisiana....
...East Baton Rouge Parish has one of the highest rates — at least 307 in 2021 — of fatal overdoses in the country. Molly was 37 when she overdosed in April 2020 on fentanyl-laced heroin....
...When, however, he moved to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to study fine art at Southern University, he was shocked at the racism he experienced....
...“I witnessed evil,” he said after a 1960 march on the Louisiana state capitol building in Baton Rouge. “I saw hatred coming out of white people. They attacked us, threw shit and piss on us....
...This is especially the case for bonds backed by sales tax income — such as the one issued by East Baton Rouge — where a specific event can upend the economy even for a short period of time....
...In 2016, one of Pierce’s homes, in Baton Rouge, was ruined by flooding. Climate change and rising seas bode ill for the region. Does Pierce ever imagine that his hometown may be unliveable?...
...On any given day, two or three big buses will be circling outside the Baton Rouge courthouse “like vultures”, Keith Nordyke, a criminal defence attorney in Baton Rouge, explains....
...Eight minutes later, after an exchange of gunfire, the suspect, two Baton Rouge police officers and a deputy with the East Baton Rouge sheriff’s department were dead....
...Authorities in Baton Rouge described the attack as an ambush....
...Photo Stefan Rousseau/PA July 9: Leshia Evans is arrested for protesting after the shooting to death of Alton Sterling near the Baton Rouge police headquarters in Louisiana....
...A recent KPMG study ranked New Orleans the second most cost-friendly midsized US city, after Baton Rouge, in which to do business....
...In Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where the killing of Alton Sterling in a confrontation with two police officers was also caught on video last week, police arrested more than 100 people as well, including DeRay...
...He referenced statistics that show how much more likely African-Americans are to be stopped, searched and arrested, while mourning the deaths of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge and Philando Castile in Minnesota...
...A reproduction of a marketing image for sensor thermal imaging manufacturer FLIR, showing a split-screen chopper with the slogan “From Baghdad to Baton Rouge: We’ve got your back”, makes his point perfectly...
...Meanwhile, there has been a rise in shootings of police officers — including eight deaths in Dallas and Baton Rouge — that seem to be retaliatory....
...For protection the officers carry a canister of CS gas, an evil-looking extendable baton, and a pair of handcuffs....
...Illustration by Sarah McMenemy Details The Whitney Plantation is beside the Mississippi near the town of Wallace, between New Orleans and Baton Rouge. Tickets for a 90-minute guided tour cost $22...
...ABC showed a picture of the driver’s licence, according to which the presumed bomber impersonated Jacque Felipe Martin of Baton Rouge, Louisiana....
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...Baton Rouge to the north....
...In the past few days, Tony Hayward has been on the move through Houston, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Jackson, Washington and Houma, Louisiana, where BP has based its team co-ordinating the response to its...
...When Katrina hit, Zeitoun decided to stay in the city to look after his house and other properties, while Kathy and their four children stayed with her family in Baton Rouge....
...base with tiny rolls of unctuous salty lardo, roast chestnuts and crisp polenta batons; a rainbow palette of velvety ices and sorbets; local sheep’s, goat’s and cow’s milk cheeses....
...Besides, Henry Ford was building a plant there, in Nizhny Novgorod, a mini version of the vast complex at Baton Rouge in Louisiana....
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