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LSU has announced the names of the students who have made the Dean’s List and the President’s Honor Roll for the fall 2019 semester.
BATON ROUGE — LSU recognized 1,986 graduates at the university’s 300th commencement exercises Dec. 20.
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The University of Louisiana at Lafayette announced its Outstanding Graduate for the December 2019 ceremony.
BATON ROUGE — Approximately 130 Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University students were conferred degrees during the university’s commencement exercises Dec. 14 at the Raising Cane’s River Center Exhibition Hall.
Seaman Trevell Smith, a Baton Rouge native, is in the Navy serving on the USS Milius, a guided-missile destroyer, in the Sea of Japan.
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Six LSU Law students completed their degree coursework during the Fall 2019 semester and graduated.
The mission of Friends of the Animals is to rescue, place in homes or save dogs, puppies and other pets from euthanasia in East Baton Rouge Parish. FOTA operates the Dog Adoption House, 8476 Highland Road, from 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and 11…
The St. George Fire Department operates eight fire stations, and its two response districts are roughly separated by Airline Highway, with one zone mostly north and east of Airline Highway, while the other is south and west of Airline Highway.
The St. George Fire Department operates eight fire stations, and its two response districts are roughly separated by Airline Highway, with one zone mostly north and east of Airline Highway, while the other is south and west of Airline Highway.
The American Heart Association/American Stroke Association has named Chip Songy as the chairman of the 2020 Capital Area Heart Walk.
Second Chance Dog Rescue is a foster-based, registered nonprofit dedicated to saving homeless dogs primarily from shelters as well as dogs surrendered by their owners.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has recognized students named to the dean's list for the fall semester of the 2019-2020 academic year.
LSU AgCenter Botanic Gardens to present first Green Stick Workshop
HAMMOND — Southeastern Louisiana University’s Honors and International Initiatives program honored students at its fall 2019 recognition ceremony Dec. 3. Students were recognized in three areas — Scholars Diploma, Sophomore Honors Distinction and …
The St. George Fire Department operates eight fire stations, and its two response districts are roughly separated by Airline Highway, with one zone mostly north and east of Airline Highway, while the other is south and west of Airline Highway.
The Cardiovascular Institute of the South has hired Dr. Niksad Abraham, an interventional cardiologist, for its clinic at 8401 Picardy Ave. in Baton Rouge.
Quartermaster 3rd Class Joshua Stephens, from Baton Rouge, is serving in the Navy, assigned to Coastal Riverine Squadron 3 in San Diego.
Children who have been directly affected by cancer enjoyed a respite from pain and worry during a Cancer Services' cocoa and doughnuts with Santa event Dec. 14 at the Quarters entertainment complex in Baton Rouge.
Furry new friends brightened the spirits of young patients on Christmas morning as dogs with the Tiger Human Animal Therapy Service (Tiger HATS) visited Our Lady of the Lake Children's Hospital in Baton Rouge. Volunteers from the LSU School of Vet…
In partnership with Capital Area United Way, BASF employees and contractors gathered to box holiday care packages to send to troops in Kuwait. Employees spent 25 hours crafting 252 packages that included more than $8,500 in snacks, lotions, sunscr…
Episcopal School of Baton Rouge recently honored the outstanding English student in each middle school grade as Penniman Scholars. The 2019 Penniman Scholars are ninth-grader Carter McLean, eighth-grader Ella Chapman and seventh-grader Joie Lee.
University Laboratory School senior Andrew Moncada scored a perfect 36 on the November ACT test.
Students from prekindergarten through eighth grade at Sacred Heart of Jesus School in Baton Rouge presented a musical program featuring songs focusing on light during the school's Grandparents Day celebration Nov. 22. The theme of the program, hos…
Over the course of two weeks this fall, LSU chemical engineering assistant professor Adam Melvin worked with nearly 60 students from St. Joseph’s Academy in Baton Rouge as part of a program he calls Bioengineering 101, in which high schoolers lear…
Junior Sophie Edwards will star as Maria and junior Evan Beoubay will portray Captain Von Trapp when the Runnels School theater presents the musical "The Sound of Music" at 7 p.m. Feb. 14-15 in the Gladys Hague Runnels Theatre, 17255 S. Harrell’s …
The University of Louisiana at Lafayette awarded 1,358 degrees during its Fall 2019 Commencement on Dec. 20.
Cadets from the Ascension Parish Composite Squadron of the Civil Air Patrol participated Dec. 8 in the Christmas on the Creek parade presented by the Jones Creek Area Business Association and Woodlawn Baptist Church. The squadron operates out of t…
The Louisiana Long Term Care Foundation recently awarded nursing scholarships to 15 outstanding recipients employed in long-term care facilities across the state.
Second Chance Dog Rescue is a foster-based, registered nonprofit dedicated to saving homeless dogs primarily from shelters as well as dogs surrendered by their owners.
Friends and family joined the graduates of the University of Louisiana Monroe on Dec. 14 for the Summer/Fall 2019 Commencement Ceremony in Fant-Ewing Coliseum.
BATON ROUGE — LSU recognized 1,986 graduates at the university’s 300th commencement exercises Dec. 20.
A No Senior Eats Alone event was recently held at Humana’s Baton Rouge neighborhood center.
St. George Catholic School’s FIRST Lego League team, the Dragon Bytes, received the Core Values Award at Holy Family’s league qualifier on Dec. 5, according to a news release. The Dragon Bytes will move on to the 2019 state championship at Jesuit …
Connor Porthouse, a junior at Runnels School in Baton Rouge, has earned the highest possible score of 1520 on the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) that he took this fall.
Second Chance Dog Rescue is a foster-based, registered nonprofit dedicated to saving homeless dogs primarily from shelters as well as dogs surrendered by their owners.
The St. George Fire Department operates eight fire stations, and its two response districts are roughly separated by Airline Highway, with one zone mostly north and east of Airline Highway, while the other is south and west of Airline Highway.
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BATON ROUGE — Some of LSU’s best and brightest students — President’s Alumni Scholars and Flagship Scholars — and the donors who funded their scholarships were recognized by the LSU Alumni Association at the Lod Cook Alumni Center on Nov. 21.
Episcopal School of Baton Rouge has presented Newton Distinguished Faculty Awards to Middle School French teacher Beth Lemoine, Lower School religion teacher Laura Portwood, and Upper School history teacher Billy Pritchard.
Patient Plus Urgent Care has opened a new facility, its sixth, at 9688 Florida Blvd. in Baton Rouge, near the Hi Nabor Supermarket.
Solutions Through Science, a partnership of the chlorine manufacturers and users in the state, and the Louisiana Resource Center for Educators have released a middle school curriculum focused on chlorine chemistry.
Our Lady of the Lake’s surgical weight loss program was named a Comprehensive Center by the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program, a joint program of the American College of Surgeons and the American Society…
The mouth of the Amite River at Lake Maurepas is the main drain for the big bathtub called the Amite River Basin.
The St. George Fire Department operates eight fire stations, and its two response districts are roughly separated by Airline Highway, with one zone mostly north and east of Airline Highway, while the other is south and west of Airline Highway.
The St. Michael High School Alumni office held its annual Christmas Cookies with Santa party Dec. 8 in the St. Michael cafeteria. There were arts and crafts, refreshments and pictures with Santa.
HAMMOND — Southeastern Louisiana University conferred degrees on 1,062 graduates Dec. 14 at the university’s commencement ceremonies.
Faculty in the Rucks Department of Management at LSU have chosen 10 students as Rucks Fellows, who represent the highest level of academic achievement among senior management majors in the E.J. Ourso College of Business. To enrich their developmen…
Employees of La Capitol Federal Credit Union donated enough sundries and personal items to the Society of St. Vincent de Paul in Baton Rouge this year to fill 25 bags.
Runnels varsity cheerleader Emma Felton joined more than 500 junior and senior high cheerleaders from across the nation in Orlando, Florida, over Thanksgiving break to cheer in a parade at the 2019 Varsity Spirit Thanksgiving Tour at Walt Disney World.
Annual Zoo Lights a nighttime treat