Ellyn Couvillion
Reporter at The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
I cover the Gonzales City Council, the Ascension Parish School Board and police news for the River Parishes. I tweet about River Parishes news.
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1 week ago |
theadvocate.com | Ellyn Couvillion
A woman's body was found in a pond behind a home in Port Allen, the West Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office said. Deputies arrived at the property shortly before 11 a.m., responding to a missing person report, and found the body in the pond there. The home was in the 8200 block of Section Road. The Sheriff's Office said the investigation into what happened is ongoing. No further details were immediately available. This is a developing story.
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2 weeks ago |
theadvocate.com | Ellyn Couvillion
A 16-year-old male from St. Mary Parish was arrested Wednesday, accused of making a false bomb threat at Lutcher High School in St. James Parish, the St. James Sheriff's Office said. The school was evacuated Wednesday morning and sheriff's deputies and local police officers were on the scene, after a male called Lutcher High at about 10:15 a.m. and threatened that a bomb would go off at the school in 15 minutes, the sheriff's office said in a news release.
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2 weeks ago |
theadvocate.com | Ellyn Couvillion
While the USS Kidd remains at a Houma shipyard for much-needed repairs, the annual ceremony that honors those who died on the ship in a kamikaze attack on April 11, 1945, will carry on Friday in Baton Rouge in a commemoration at 1:55 p.m., the time the attack began 80 years ago. Thirty-eight crew members died that day, and 55 others were injured.
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2 weeks ago |
theadvocate.com | Ellyn Couvillion
A man was found fatally shot in a Geronimo Street home Sunday night, according to the Baton Rouge Police Department. The victim, Kevin Evans Jr., 40, died of multiple gunshot wounds in a residence in the 3900 block of Geronimo Street. His friends were making a welfare check on him shortly before 7 p.m. when they found his body and called 911, police said in a news release. Evans died of multiple gunshot wounds in a residence in the 3900 block of Geronimo Street, police said.
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2 weeks ago |
theadvocate.com | Ellyn Couvillion
An Amite man traveling westbound in the eastbound lanes of Interstate 10 in Ascension Parish died early Friday morning when his car crashed head-on into an 18-wheeler, according to State Police. The crash happened shortly before 1 a.m. as James Burns, 39, of Amite drove westbound into the eastbound lanes of I-10 near Prairieville. Burns crashed into a Freightliner tractor-trailer.
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