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The Advocate
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The Advocate
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The Advocate, a 2019 Pulitzer Prize winner for local reporting, has served Baton Rouge and LA for more than a century. A top source for news, sports, much more.
- BREAKING | Kori Gauthier, the LSU freshman missing since last week, was identified as the body found in the Mississippi River in St. John the Baptist Parish.
- BREAKING! The Advocate wins first-ever Pulitzer Prize for reporting that helped change Louisiana's non-unanimous jury law buff.ly/2VMjSsb
- BREAKING: LSU men's basketball player Wayde Sims was killed in a shooting early Friday morning near the Southern University campus, according to Baton Rouge police. buff.ly/2xK8S4o
- Carley McCord, killed in a Lafayette plane crash, was a "bright, funny, talented, energetic friend and colleague." "She was always a ray of sunshine." "This is simply numbing."
- Saints DE Cam Jordan on Matt Ryan leaving Falcons: "He left me. I'm not even the girlfriend. I'm like the side piece. He left. He didn't text me. He changed his whole address. it was just rude." @camjordan94 has sacked Ryan a record 23 times. #AdvocateStars
- Baton Rouge officer's suit against #BlackLivesMatter, @deray Mckesson dismissed; movement can't be sued, judge says: buff.ly/2xIW2E0
- Since May, Tyrann Mathieu has spent every other Monday night on Zoom, talking with local teens and young adults looking for positive role models. Read the story here. ⤵
- Tragic story out of Baton Rouge: Sadie Roberts-Joseph was found dead in the trunk of a car Friday evening. She was the founder of Baton Rouge's African American history museum. What we know so far: buff.ly/2Gcd8hD
- BREAKING: Voters awarded Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards a second term, allowing him to remain as the Deep South's only Democratic governor after an extremely close race. buff.ly/35bPVG2
- Cajun Navy's on the way: how South Louisianans are helping flood-riddled Texan neighbors: buff.ly/2xE4wcz
- Alabama gov signs law protecting Confederate monuments, school names, more to preserve 'good and the bad' of history ow.ly/WjfG30c2782
- A person who had a heart attack had to take a 2-hour ambulance ride, passing 6 hospitals, to find a facility to care for them. The other hospitals were filled with COVID patients. “If you don’t think this does not impact you, you’re absolutely wrong."
- Updates on fatal shooting of LSU basketball player Wayde Sims: Info from scene; LSU "devastated," press conference coming at 10 a.m.; "It's so sad that all our young people are destroying each other," family friend says. Story: buff.ly/2Oox8D2
