BATON ROUGE - Local artist Raymond Marmillion III died from a heart attack on Saturday.The artist, whose work signed RMIII can be found around Baton Rouge and New Orleans, was 42 years old.His parents, Gwen and Raymond Marmillion Jr., are proud of their son, recalling his work painted on the side of restaurants, hung inside galleries, homes and gifted to many."As I'm standing there looking at his work people were passing by honking their horn and waiving because it's an inspiration of hope,"...
BATON ROUGE — Road crews plan to close Bluebonnet Boulevard just west of its intersection with Airline Highway after the Friday night rush hour and leave it closed through much of Saturday.All lanes will be blocked. The city-parish transportation department said the closure was required for emergency sewer work requested by the Wastewater Collections division.Permalink| Comments
PORT ALLEN — Investigators say one of two West Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office employees placed on administrative leave stalked a home and business in East Baton Rouge and Livingston parishes for more than a year.Deputy Donald Dawsey, 51, was named in a misdemeanor summons issued April 17. It says Dawsey had screenshots of surveillance footage of an East Baton Rouge business on his cell phone.The images, dating to March 5, was from a camera placed in the woods across from the business...
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Tyson Fury will fight Oleksandr Usyk for the undisputed heavyweight title in May. The 'Gypsy King' has since been tipped to fight compatriot Anthony Joshua. Turki Alalshikh has revealed that it's among the three fights he wants to make
Here in Louisiana and the rest of the country, the Department of Transportation and Development has named this week a national work Zone Awareness Week.
The Kenner Police Department is searching for a suspect accused of armed robbery and attempted murder in Kenner.
MCALLEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — McAllen police are searching for a man who has two warrants out for his arrest for theft. Authorities say Florentino Trevino, 31, stole money from a south McAllen residence on the 1300 block of S. 23rd St. Trevino stole money from the same residence two times, police add. The first theft []
BATON ROUGE - Defense attorneys for Kentrell Gaulden, or NBA YoungBoy, are asking to delay the start of a July 15 trial.Gaulden is facing a charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm tied to a music video shoot in Baton Rouge.A pre-trial hearing is scheduled to take June 25, but both dates would be delayed if Shelly Dick, chief judge for the U.S. Middle District Court of Louisiana, signs off on the delay. She has not signed it yet.Gaulden is currently in custody in Cache County, Utah...
In 2017 Polina Anikeeva, PhD ’09, was invited to a conference in the Netherlands to give a talk about magnetic technologies that she and her team had developed at MIT and how they might be used for deep brain stimulation to treat Parkinson’s disease. After sitting through a long day of lectures, she was struck…
A Hammond High School student was hospitalized and another was arrested after a stabbing on campus on Monday, April 22.
Atmosphere is all in the loose hustle and bustle of a pre-show, but in a play proper, it can only carry you so far.