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Terry Burrows announced his resignation as McNeese State's head baseball coach on Friday. (Michelle Higginbotham / American Press)<br>

Terry Burrows announced his resignation as McNeese State's head baseball coach on Friday. (Michelle Higginbotham / American Press)

Burrows says time was right to walk away

By Alex Hickey / American Press

Terry Burrows’ professional playing career took him to Japan, a country where the concept of death over dishonor is still engrained in the culture.

Whether consciously or not, that mindset played out for Burrows in a figurative sense as he pulled the plug on his coaching career, officially st ...

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Before and after samples at the waste water facility. (Rick Hickman / American Press)<br>

Wastewater professionals help keep city clean, safe

Rest assured, when Kevin Heise or any of his hardworking staff of 65 were kids, none of them were longing to work in the sewer

business.

But 24 hou ...

FILE - This undated file photo combination provided by the Philadelphia Police Department shows Herbert and Catherine Schaible. At a bail hearing Friday, May 24, 2013, a Philadelphia judge ordered the couple, who believe in faith healing over medicine, be held without bail on third-degree murder charges in the April death of their 8-month-old son, Brandon. They previously had been convicted of involuntary manslaughter after another child, 2-year-old Kent, died in 2009. (AP Photo/Philadelphia Police Department, File)

No bail for parents in faith-healing death

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philadelphia man charged with murder after losing two sons to untreated pneumonia told police he believes in "divine heali ...

In this Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012 file photo, Zach Wahls waves after addressing the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. The Eagle Scout, a 21-year-old activist raised by lesbian mothers in Iowa, has been a leader of the campaign to end the BSA's no-gays policy. In the wake of the Thursday, May 23, 2013 decision, he said his group, Scouts for Equality, would continue to press for lifting the ban on gay adults, while also monitoring how the BSA implemented its new policy for gay youth. We'll act as a watchdog,

After vote on gay youth, Boy Scouts face more turmoil

The Boy Scouts of America will get no reprieve from controversy after a contentious vote to accept openly gay boys as Scouts.Dismayed conservatives ar ...

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Legislative Roundup: Senators hear from public on next year's budget

BATON ROUGE (AP) — People who rely on the

state for health care and education pleaded Friday with senators to keep

those programs

off the cho ...


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Sports

Terry Burrows announced his resignation as McNeese State's head baseball coach on Friday. (Michelle Higginbotham / American Press)<br>

Burrows says time was right to walk away

Terry Burrows’ professional playing career took him to Japan, a country where the concept of death over dishonor is still engrained in the cultu ...

LSU catcher Ty Ross celebrates a 3-2 victory over Alabama with pitcher Chris Cotton, center, and Nate Fury during a SEC tournament game Friday at the Hoover Met in Hoover, Ala. (Associated Press)<br>

LSU rallies past Alabama in SEC elimination game

HOOVER, Ala. (AP) — Tyler Moore and Ty Ross had run-scoring hits with two outs in the ninth to lead LSU to a 3-2 victory over

Alabama Friday in ...

AP Source: NCAA looking to talk to Dye again

CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — NCAA investigators are planning to interview Miami football player Dyron Dye next week to see if there are discrepanci ...

Longtime Louisiana Swashbucklers wide receiver Sammy Knight. (American Press Archives)<br>

Swashbucklers’ folding surprises players

Players old and new found the news of the Swashbucklers’ demise sad.

As current players regrouped Thursday for practice, just hours after heari ...


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Scene

Paul Groves and Mirage perform at the Shearman Fine Arts Center Auditorium. (Special to the American Press)<br>

Opera tenor Paul Groves to reunite with high school band at fundraiser

Autism Services of Southwest Louisiana will hold its Autism Rocks fundraiser at 6 p.m. Sunday, May 26, in the L’Auberge Casino

Auditorium.

The ...

(Special to the American Press)<br>

Farmers’ Market ends with Coushatta Fun Fest Saturday

ELTON — The Coushatta Farmers’ Market will wrap up its spring season Saturday with the Coushatta Farmers’ Market Fun Fest,

featurin ...

Sailboats race to the finish line during last year’s Lake Arthur Regatta Festival. The festival returns this weekend for two days of food, music and fun in the sun and water. (Doris Maricle / American Press)<br>

Lake Arthur gets ready for Regatta festival this weekend

LAKE ARTHUR — Organizers are gearing up for the 3rd annual Lake Arthur Regatta this Memorial Day weekend in downtown Lake

Arthur.

The festiv ...

Travis Matte and The Kingpins released ‘Let’s Party,’ their eighth album, in April. (Special to the American Press)<br>

Travis Matte and the Kingpins to rock Ryan Street tonight

Lafayette band Travis Matte and the Kingpins will be the lead attraction at the second Downtown at Sundown performance Friday

on Ryan Street between ...


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