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Police searching for suspect in Tigerland hit and run

By Staff reports November 5, 2012

The Baton Rouge Police Department is looking for a driver who struck a pedestrian early Sunday morning in the Tigerland area. The victim, identified by WBRZ as 26-year-old Blake McKee, is in critical...

Baton Rouge crime rates remain high

By Chris Grillot November 5, 2012

Baton Rouge surpassed New Orleans in violent crime per capita for 2011. The FBI released its national crime statistics Monday, revealing Baton Rouge’s violent crime rate as 1065.7 crimes per 100,000...

Future uncertain for SAE fraternity

By Staff Reports November 4, 2012

The University chapter of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity has been under scrutiny this semester by University officials as well as the fraternity’s national headquarters, and members of the LSU...

University alumna to open hookah lounge in Mid-City

By Luke Jones November 4, 2012

The typical Baton Rouge hangout scene consists of coffee shops, bars and house parties. However, a recent University graduate is bringing a new type of establishment to Baton Rouge: the hookah lounge. ...

PETA to showcase interactive exhibit

By Rachel Warren November 4, 2012

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, and its youth division peta2 are giving students a chance to experience animal cruelty on campus, starting today. The organization will host an educational...

Runners take off Sunday evening down Dalrymple Drive for RUNapalooza, a 5K to promote hunger awareness in the LSU and Baton Rouge community.

‘Paloozas’ collect for Baton Rouge Food Bank

By Jacy Baggett November 4, 2012

The University homecoming service committee added another “palooza” to the events of homecoming festivities. RUNapalooza, a 5k walk/run, promoted hunger awareness in the Baton Rouge community,...

Garbage lies piled on the street in the New Dorp neighborhood of Staten Island, N.Y., Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012, in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

A state-by-state look at Superstorm Sandy’s effect

By The Associated Press November 4, 2012

The massive storm that started out as Hurricane Sandy slammed into the East Coast and morphed into a huge and problematic system, killing at least 107 people in the United States. Power outages now stand...

This April 12, 2011 photo provided by Arcata Police Department shows an indoor marijuana growing operation raided by police. Fed up with the proliferation of industrial-scale indoor growing operations taking over homes in residential neighborhoods, city leaders are asking voters to to adopt a stiff new tax on excessive electricity use designed to drive large-scale growers out of town. (AP Photo/Arcata Police Department)

Pot town pushes back against industrial growers

By The Associated Press November 4, 2012

ARCATA, Calif. (AP) — Happily isolated on California’s remote Humboldt County coast, Arcata has long made room in its heart for marijuana, whether grown illegally in the back woods by refugees...

Carrying a backpack with goods and supplies, marathon runner Eitan Tabak runs past debris in the hard hit Midland Beach neighborhood of the Staten Island borough of New York, Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012. Background right is marathon runner Michelle Mascioli and far left marathon runner Rachel Wheeler of New York. With the cancellation of the New York Marathon, hundreds of runners, wearing their marathon shirts and backpacks full of supplies, took the ferry to hard-hit Staten Island and ran to neighborhoods hard hit by Superstorm Sandy to help. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

Cancellation of New York City Marathon showcases good, bad aspects of city

By Kevin Thibodeaux November 4, 2012

Sunday I woke up in New York emotionally and physically hungover from the LSU loss the previous night. I was in the Big Apple to support my dad and uncle who had trained months and dropped piles of cash...

Professor investigates natural products used for horse ulcers

By Juliann Allen November 4, 2012

A University professor took horses back to the basics last year, using natural berries rather than pharmaceuticals to heal their stomach ulcers. Veterinary medicine professor Frank Andrews studied the...

Board to move forward with possible System merger

By Brian Sibille November 2, 2012

The LSU Board of Supervisors asserted the necessity for change in a struggling state higher education environment as it voted to continue a transformation process that could result in a merger between...

Small businesses have more options

By Megan Dunbar November 1, 2012

Baton Rouge Office of Business Development Coordinator Stacie Williams told small businesses affected by Hurricane Gustav that funding possibilities in the form of two financial firms exist, on Thursday...