BATON ROUGE - The former site of Exide Baton Rouge, which was demolished in 2014, was added to the EPA's National Priorities list for investigation and cleanup.Exide ceased operations in 2009, and after demolition, high concentrations of antimony, arsenic, lead, manganese and zinc were found in the groundwater and soils on site. Due to the challenges of the Exide Baton Rouge site, the state of Louisiana referred it to the EPA to avoid any interruption in the continued operation of...
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BATON ROUGE — The Baton Rouge Zydeco announced plans for their sophomore season at a press conference Thursday morning. Headlining the announcements was the news that the team would be re-signing two players from its record-breaking inaugural season.Forward Scott Shorrock and right winger Bradley Richardson will return for the 2024-25 season, head coach Everett Thompson announced. Thompson was announced as head coach back in February.Richardson is a legacy Baton Rouge hockey player, with...
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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...
BATON ROUGE - Coming this weekend, the Baton Rouge Ballet will showcase its sixth production of "Cinderella". The show features local dancers from across capital area high schools and colleges. However, Cinderella will be played by Leigh Anne Albrechta from Louisville, Kentucky. Albrechta trains with Louisville Ballet, but she's excited to be in Baton Rouge."Everyone has been really inviting. I've gotten to try crawfish for the first time and I've gotten to explore downtown but mostly just...
BATON ROUGE — The Baton Rouge Zydeco missed the Federal Prospects Hockey League playoffs in its inaugural season, but swept the Mississippi Sea Wolves to end the year and set an attendance for the 14-year-old league.The Zydeco brought hockey back to Baton Rouge 20 years after the Kingfish left for Victoria, British Columbia, and became the Salmon Kings.The team's average attendance of 3,958 was two more than the crowds in Binghamton, New York. It won six of its last eight games, and...
Following a drop of some new SNES titles a couple of weeks ago, Nintendo has just added two more games to its library of Nintendo 64 classics. The new games are a pair of very different racing games, with the ultra-fast and futuristic racing of Extreme-G accompanied by the more platformer-like action of Iggy's Reckin' Balls. Both games feature split-screen multiplayer so you can get your old friends over and sit around the TV like the good ol' days. Being N64 titles, these ones are...
BATON ROUGE - According to the Center of Disease Control, 1 in every 5 women under 49 are unable to get pregnant after one year of trying. A Baton Rouge woman, Adrienne Allen, is opening up about her journey to raise awareness about infertility during National Infertility month."I was walking through a season of infertility a few years ago and I was feeling so many different emotions," Allen said. "Anger, disappointment, discouragement, envy."To cope with these emotions, Allen started...
BATON ROUGE — This weekend marks the 43rd annual Baton Rouge Blues Fest. All weekend, there will be a variety of artists playing throughout the day starting Friday. This swamp blues celebration is held in the heart of Downtown Baton Rouge each year. It is one of the oldest festivals of its kind in America. To keep the momentum going, Lauren Lambert-Tompkins, the executive director for this year's festival, says that there are some new additions to this year's festivities. Urban...