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Thursday, August 7, 2008
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AP Interactive: Global Storm Tracker: August 4, 2008 Track the actual and projected path of tropical storms all around the world with the AP's Global Storm Tracker. |
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INTERACTIVE ~ JULY 2008 AP Interactive: Our Nation's Bridges MINNEAPOLIS -- A year after the worst U.S. bridge collapse in a generation brought calls for immediate repairs to other spans, two of every three of the busiest problem bridges in each state -- carrying nearly 40 million vehicles a day -- have had no work beyond regular maintenance. |
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IMAGE GALLERY ~ JULY 2008 Photos: Jindal holds town hall meeting Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal delivered a speech during a own town hall style meetings at a stop in Dubach Monday. |
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AUDIO AND PHOTO GALLERY ~ JULY 2008 Audio slide show: Post Katrina Theater NEW ORLEANS -- Although New Orleans' biggest theaters have been shuttered since Hurricane Katrina, the theater community is thriving. Small new companies have sprouted up. Actors and directors are moving into the city. And, especially for smaller companies, attendance is up. |
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PHOTO GALLERY ~ JULY 2008 Southern University recognizes graduates In his first public speech as Southern University chancellor, Kofi Lomotey remembered the golden rule of graduation speeches — staying short and to the point. On a Friday morning when 269 students graduated from Southern, Lomotey reflected on the sacrifices others made for today’s newest scholars to succeed. “None of us achieves anything on our own,” Lomotey said. |
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AUDIO AND PHOTO GALLERY ~ JULY 2008 AP Multimedia: Hurricane Dolly BROWNSVILLE, Texas _ Hurricane Dolly gathered strength and slammed into the South Texas coast Wednesday with punishing rain and winds of 100 mph, blowing down signs, damaging an apartment complex and knocking out power to thousands. |
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PHOTO GALLERY ~ JULY 2008 Photos: Babel Con 3 lands in Baton Rouge Babel Con, held at the Holiday Inn Select in Baton Rouge, is a conference that uses science fiction to generate interest in science and history. The event takes place Friday July 18 through Sunday July 20. |
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PHOTO GALLERY ~ JULY 2008 Photos: LaHouse While your spouse or significant other is at the game, meet or match on the LSU campus this fall, stroll down to Louisiana House on Gourrier Avenue, across from new Alex Box Stadium, to do some house shopping. |
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PHOTO GALLERY ~ JULY 2008 Photos: 4th of July in the Baton Rouge Area Boyd Alexander isn’t the type to wear his patriotism on his sleeve. Alexander, 78, wears his patriotism, well, pretty much everywhere. From the Uncle Sam top hat that adorned his head to the American flag boots that covered his feet, Alexander was dressed for the occasion during the Fourth of July celebration in downtown Baton Rouge. |
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INTERACTIVE ~ JUNE 2008 AP Timeline: Bill Gates last day at Microsoft A timeline of Bill Gates career, as he leaves the company he founded in 1975. |
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IMAGE GALLERY ~ JUNE 2008 Photos: LSU's NBA First-Rounders Anthony Randolph is the 13th Tiger to be taken in the first round of the NBA Draft. Take a look back at previous LSU players who have have early their name called early on draft day. Just one, Shaquille O'Neal, has been the No. 1 overall pick. But O'Neal, Bob Pettit and Pete Maravich went on to legendary careers, with all three named among the NBA's 50 Greatest Players. |
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AUDIO AND PHOTO GALLERY ~ JUNE 2008 Audio slideshow: New Orleans transit NEW ORLEANS -- For the first time since Hurricane Katrina, the 1920s-era St. Charles Avenue streetcar will clack along its entire 13-mile route Sunday. |
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IMAGE GALLERY ~ JUNE 2008 CWS Photos: UNC 7, LSU 3 The Tigers were bounced from the College World Series by a ninth-inning grand slam from North Carolina's Tim Federowicz. |
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IMAGE GALLERY ~ JUNE 2008 Photos: Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist Contest Participants dressed up in a variety of costumes that captured various looks of the entire career of the landmark performer. |
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INTERACTIVE ~ JUNE 2008 AP: Flooding in the Heartland GULFPORT, Ill. -- Floodwaters breached another levee in Illinois on Wednesday and threatened more Mississippi River towns in Missouri after inundating much of Iowa for the past week. |
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IMAGE GALLERY ~ JUNE 2008 CWS Photos: LSU 6, Rice 5 The Tigers scored four runs in the bottom of the ninth to stave off elimination in the College World Series. Blake Dean's one-out, bases-loaded double off the left-field wall capped the rally as LSU ended a five-game Omaha losing streak. |
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IMAGE GALLERY ~ JUNE 2008 CWS Photos: UNC 8, LSU 4 The Tigers lost their first game in Omaha and now they must beat Rice on Tuesday to stave off elimination. |
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TIME LAPSE PHOTOGRAPHY ~ JUNE 2008 Time Lapse Photos: Last Blast at The Box LSU 21, UC Irvine 7: To document the final game at Alex Box Stadium, Advocate Staff Photographer Denny Culbert set up a camera to fire every 20 seconds for seven hours, from batting practice before the game until the stadium was empty long after. |
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PHOTO GALLERY ~ JUNE 2008 Photos: Gardere on the cusp of change Heather Johnson was pleased with her new home and neighborhood after moving to the Gardere area 10 years ago. She says her grass was manicured, her landlord was attentive and the sounds of sirens and gunshots weren’t that common. But things have changed over the past four years in the East Baton Rouge Parish neighborhood. |
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IMAGE GALLERY ~ JUNE 2008 Photos: LSU-UC Irvine -- Game 3 The Tigers secured their first College World Series berth since 2004 and closed Alex Box Stadium in style with a 21-7 rout of UC Irvine in the super regional finale. |
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IMAGE GALLERY ~ JUNE 2008 Photos: LSU-UC Irvine -- Game 2 The Tigers forced a decisive third game of their super regional series with a 9-7 victory against UC Irvine. LSU rallied for five runs in the ninth and give Alex Box Stadium one more game |
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IMAGE GALLERY ~ JUNE 2008 Photos: LSU-UC Irvine -- Game 1 The Tigers' 23-game winning streak ended with an 11-5 loss to the Anteaters in the first game of a best-of-three super regional series at Alex Box Stadium. |
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IMAGE GALLERY ~ JUNE 2008 AP Photos: The Clinton Campaign The former first lady, who as recently as Tuesday declared herself the strongest candidate, gave Obama an unqualified endorsement and pivoted from her role as determined foe to absolute ally. Here is a look back on her historic campaign for the Democratic nomination for president. |
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IMAGE GALLERY ~ JUNE 2008 2008 All-Metro Softball Team A look at the best players in the area. Live Oak's Brittany Gonzales is the Outstanding Player and the Eagles' Michelle Morris is the Coach of the Year. The two led Live Oak to the Class 4A title game for the second time. |
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IMAGE GALLERY ~ JUNE 2008 2008 All-Metro Baseball Team A look at the best players in the area. Catholic's Austin Nola and Parkview's Alex Byo are the team's Outstanding Players and Zachary's Jesse Cassard and Parkview's M.L. Woodruff are the coaches of the year. |
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INTERACTIVE ~ JUNE 2008 Photo Map: Tammany Trace trail uprgraded For 15 years, parish and municipal governments have worked to build, piece by piece, the Trace, the only rail line in the state that’s been converted into an asphalt paved bike and hiking trail. Currently, the path meanders through the back yards of pine tree-covered subdivisions and across several bayous and canals. |
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IMAGE GALLERY ~ JUNE 2008 Photos: LSU captures regional title Baseball at Alex Box Stadium isn’t done yet. Neither is LSU’s record-breaking 23-game winning streak. Both of which suit Tigers fan Rick Barrios, of False River, and others just fine. |
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IMAGE GALLERY ~ JUNE 2008 All-Metro Girls Golf A look at the top players in the area. St. Joseph's Academy's Heather Lott is the Outstanding Player, and her coach, Holly Randow won Coach of the Year honors. Zachary's Allison Kippers in the Most Improved Player and Live Oak's Emily Blount is the Newcomer of the Year. |
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IMAGE GALLERY ~ MAY 2008 Celebration in the Park The City-Brooks Community Park reopened Saturday in Baton Rouge. The golf course, labyrinth and dog park are back in operation and BREC held "Celebration in the Park" to commemorate the event. |
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IMAGE GALLERY ~ MAY 2008 All-Metro Boys Golf A look at the top performers in the area. St. Michael senior Garrett Westbrook and Episcopal's Landon Lyons were named top players in the team selected by local-area coaches. |
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IMAGE GALLERY ~ MAY 2008 All-Metro Tennis A look at the best high school players in the area. University's Hunter Odom and St. Joseph's Academy's Lauren Mira were voted the most outstanding players. |
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IMAGE GALLERY ~ MAY 2008 The Heat Is On: Jambalaya Festival 2008 The 41st Annual Jambalaya Festival Gonzales, La, "The Jambalaya Capitol of the World" May 22-25 |
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PHOTO GALLERY ~ MAY 2008 Photos: LSU wins the SEC tournament LSU established a new single-season record winning streak with an 8-2 triumph over Ole Miss Sunday in the SEC tournament championship game at Regions Park. Sunday’s triumph was the Tigers’ 20th in a row, surpassing the 19-0 start the 1997 team stormed to on the way to a College World Series championship. |
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IMAGE GALLERY ~ MAY 2008 Photos: LSU vs. Alabama Blake Dean punctuated a six-run eighth inning Saturday with a mammoth grand slam and Jared Mitchell chipped in with key run-scoring hits in the last two frames as LSU charged back from another late deficit in the semifinal round of the 2008 SEC tournament at Regions Park. |
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IMAGE GALLERY ~ MAY 2008 Photos: Lakeview Lives Lakeview — a vast residential area of New Orleans bordered by Robert E. Lee Boulevard to the north, City Park Avenue to the south, City Park to the east and the 17th Street Canal to the west — is staging a comeback. |
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IMAGE GALLERY ~ MAY 2008 LSU-Vanderbilt Photos Highlights from the game. |
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IMAGE GALLERY ~ MAY 2008 LSU vs. South Carolina Highlights from the game. |
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IMAGE GALLERY ~ MAY 2008 Derailment Spill in Lafayette An image gallery of the derailed train in Lafayette that leaked out hydrochloric acid Sunday morning. |
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PHOTO GALLERY ~ MAY 2008 2008 Star of Stars Ryan Lewis of Catholic High and Jasmine Scott of St. Michael the Archangel were at different athletic crossroads before The Advocate’s 23rd Athlete of the Year/Star of Stars awards banquet. |
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IMAGE GALLERY ~ MAY 2008 Advocate photos: After the Storm Two weather systems collided over south Louisiana on Wednesday afternoon, causing floods in seven Baton Rouge-area parishes, toppling trees and causing widespread power outages, while winds of up to 90 miles an hour peeled roofs from a church in Baker, a school in Central and the new parish jail in Livingston. |
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IMAGE GALLERY ~ MAY 2008 Viewer Submissions: Storm Photos Photographs submitted by viewers show destruction caused by Wednesday and Thursday's storm. |
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PHOTO GALLERY ~ MAY 2008 Photos: Closing The Box Fans couldn’t take their seats with them Sunday after the last regular season game at LSU’s Alex Box Stadium, but they could take their memories and, if they wanted, a souvenir T-shirt or program. |
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PHOTO GALLERY ~ MAY 2008 Dancing in the Dark When it comes to the prom, teenagers are teenagers. It's a night of formals and fun, of dancing and delight, of happiness and hope. On that special night, the students of the Louisiana School for the Visually Impaired create wonderful memories just like teens everywhere. |
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IMAGE GALLERY ~ MAY 2008 Ryan Perrilloux LSU quarterback Ryan Perrilloux, the SEC Championship MVP, throws under pressure in the third quarter of the Tiger's 21-14 win. 99 is J.T. Mapu. |
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PHOTO GALLERY ~ APRIL 2008 Common Ground Photo Gallery As Earth Day approaches — with a big festival in downtown Baton Rouge on Sunday and the national celebration on Tuesday — thoughts tend toward the green. Ever since the first one in 1970, Earth Day always has been meant to give people a dedicated time to think, talk and get involved with the “environment” that affects their daily lives through clean air, clean water and clean land. |
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PHOTO GALLERY ~ APRIL 2008 Party Animals Zachary is a 7-year-old lab mix owned by Janet Fountain, owner of Party Animals, is one of several local pets with a flair for style. |
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PHOTO GALLERY ~ APRIL 2008 LSU-Tennessee Photos The Lady Tigers' fifth consecutive appearance in the Final Four ended in heartbreaking fashion. Alexis Hornbuckle's putback basket with 0.7 seconds to go gave Tennessee a 47-46 victory against LSU. The basket accounted for Hornbuckle's only two points of the game and gave the Lady Tigers their fifth loss in as many tries in the national semifinals. |
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PHOTO GALLERY ~ MARCH 2008 2008 St. Patrick’s Day parade photos Most parade goers Saturday morning put on their favorite green T-shirt or muumuu before staking out a prime spot along the St. Patrick’s Day parade route. Revelers lined the parade route, clamoring for trinkets and beads, plastic cups and the occasional stuffed animal. Advocate photographer Travis Spradling takes a look at the 2008 Baton Rouge St. Patrick’s Day parade. |
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