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David William Thomas; Advocate main office in Baton Rouge, 2012. In 2007, the newspaper lost three of its key staff with the deaths of Capitol Bureau Chief John LaPlante, health reporter and author of "The Patient Person" columns Laurie Smith Anderson and environmental writer Michael P. Dunne.
Frank Paul Simoneaux (October 30, 1933 – May 8, 2024) was an American lawyer and politician in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who served as a Democrat from 1972 to 1982 in the Louisiana House of Representatives.
She was celebrating New Year's with her brother on Bourbon street when she was killed, her family told The Advocate newspaper of Baton Rouge. Polk lived in New Orleans' Tremé neighborhood. Polk ...
He served as Chief Judge from 1979 to 1998, assuming senior status on October 31, 1998, serving until his death on July 14, 2014, at his home in Baton Rouge. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] References
After military service, Maginnis became a correspondent in Baton Rouge for The Catholic Commentator. [4] He began his coverage of Louisiana political events in 1972. He wrote three books: The Last Hayride (1984), [5] Cross to Bear (1992), and The Politics of Reform. [1]
Derrick Todd Lee (November 5, 1968 – January 21, 2016), also known as The Baton Rouge Serial Killer, was an American serial killer who, from 1998 to 2003, terrorized the areas surrounding Baton Rouge and Lafayette, Louisiana, by committing the murders of at least seven women.
The Triple S Food Market in Baton Rouge, where Sterling was shot by the Baton Rouge Police. At 12:35 a.m., at 2112 North Foster Drive in the parking lot of Triple S Food Mart, Sterling was detained by Baton Rouge Police Department officers Blane Salamoni and Howie Lake. This came after an anonymous caller reported that a man was threatening him ...
Mary Estus Jones Webb (May 14, 1924 – September 16, 1995) became Mayor-President of Baton Rouge in 1955 on the death of her husband, Jesse L. Webb Jr. in a plane crash. She was the first woman to serve as Mayor-President of Baton Rouge.