Oct 1959: JFK, who generally avoided donning gift hats of any kind, shown here in a “rice hat” awarded him at the Int’l Rice Festival in Crowley, LA. Edwin Edwards, later governor, shown at far right. Edmund Reggie archive. Historical marker in Crowley, LA, commemorating the date a...
2024 outlook: The Tigers won 10 games in each of Brian Kelly's first two seasons in Baton Rouge. They didn't take advantage of having Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Jayden Daniels this past season, as the defense allowed at least 42 points in three losses. Now, Daniels is off to the...
On Oct. 20, 1977, only three days after the release of 'Street Survivors,' Lynyrd Skynyrd's Convair CV-240 plane was en route from Greenville, S.C., to Baton Rouge, La., when it ran out of fuel and crashed in the woods near Gillsburg, Miss. Three members of the band - frontman...