The Ledger - BATON ROUGE, La. None of the NBA’s general managers thought former LSU standout Glen “Big Baby” Davis’ game was mature enough to warrant a first-round pick Thursday night. However, the Seattle SuperSonics took Davis with the fifth pick in the second Read More

Boston Globe - BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana will ban cockfighting next year, becoming the last state to outlaw the blood sport, under a bill approved Wednesday by the Legislature. Gov. Kathleen Blanco’s office said she would sign the measure, which bans the rural Read More

New Orleans Times-Picayune - BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A federal quarantine on farm-raised seafood from China vindicates Louisiana’s inspection and confiscation of such products and will help it and two other states enforce their inspection programs, Louisiana’s agriculture Read More

CSR Wire - Marvin Beasley, chairman and CEO of Helzberg Diamonds in North Kansas City, MO and Lee Michael Berg, president and CEO of Lee Michaels Fine Jewelry in Baton Rouge, LA and also announced that $ 4.7 million would be committed in the year ahead to Read More

WLOX - BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - A Baton Rouge grand jury has indicted the mother of 6-year-old twins on two counts of first-degree murder in the strangling of the boys. Thirty-year-old Sherie Shantel Simms is accused of strangling Samuel Simms and Soloman Read More

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