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BATON ROUGE – The greatest figure in LSU sports history died early Friday morning.

He had a hand in 11 LSU national championships – five as a head baseball coach in 18 seasons, four more when as the school’s athletic director in seven years he hired head coaches who won nattys in four sports and was a mentor after his retirement to another head coach who won t...


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GAME CHANGER: Skip Bertman pointed the way for LSU baseball to rise from also-ran to cream of the crop. (Photo courtesy LSU Athletics)

COMMENTARY by DOUG IRELAND, Journal Sports

One of the endless list of great things about Skip Bertman: he was always willing to help.

Not just at LSU, where he was the architec...


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By BILL FRANQUES, LSU Sr. Associate Communications Director (Baseball)

BATON ROUGE — J. Stanley “Skip” Bertman, the legendary LSU baseball coach and athletics director whose innovative vision significantly impacted the state of Louisiana, its flagship university, and the evolution of collegiate athletics, passed away early Friday morning in Ba...


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One person is dead following a collision Thursday afternoon between an 18-wheeler carrying saltwater and a freight train at the Smith Road railroad crossing on U.S. Highway 71 near Elm Grove in south Bossier Parish.

The crash occurred just before 5 p.m. Three locomotives and 21 rail cars derailed as a result of the collision. A coroner was on the scene. ...


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A late-night snack run led to the arrest of a Shreveport man after police said he stole $19.88 worth of food from a Circle K.

At approximately 12:34 a.m. Aug. 11, Shreveport Police responded to the Circle K at 809 Olive Street after a store clerk reported that a man entered the business, grabbed several snacks, filled a fountain drink and left without paying.<...


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