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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....
...The officer watched on CCTV as she picked up two boxes of expensive perfume — Maison Francis Kukdjian’s Baccarat Rouge 540 and Oud Silk Mood — worth £640....
...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....
...The Department of Health and Human Services announced on Tuesday it would temporarily increase federal support to Jacksonville, Florida; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; and Edinburg, Texas, where there had been...
...At a press conference to announce Louisiana’s measures, Catherine O’Neal, an infectious diseases specialist in Baton Rouge, said the state had experienced a “massive increase” in the number of hospitalisations...
...But Pierce is undeterred, and with Henry, recently bought a local African-American talk-radio station. In 2016, one of Pierce’s homes, in Baton Rouge, was ruined by flooding....
...And I handled 13-year-old boys, kept them in line. So I'm pretty sure I could handle what's going on in Baton Rouge....
...“They’re from parishes up in north-east Louisiana that have private parish jails. And they’re waiting for somebody to get convicted....
...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....
...After protests over the killing last month of two black men by police, followed by the murders of police officers by black snipers in Dallas and Baton Rouge, a poll found Americans have not been so pessimistic...
...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....
...This week’s police shootings in Falcon Heights, Minnesota and Baton Rouge, Louisiana were followed by the attacks in Dallas by a sniper who said he wanted to kill white officers....
...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...
...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...
...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....
...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...
...Just after The Passion was aired, for example, the Baton Rouge Advocate calculated that the show could end up costing the state’s taxpayers between $2m and $3m. In some ways, I welcome this debate....
...He has been principal conductor at the London Symphony Orchestra and frequently performed at New York’s Metropolitan Opera....
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