Capital City News

The Republican Party of East Baton Rouge Parish has endorsed Attorney General Buddy Cald- well for reelection in the Oct. 24 open primary.  EBR Republican chairman Woody Jenkins said Caldwell is well qualified by his experience of 29 years as a District Attorney, eight years as Attorney General, and thousands of criminal cases to continue […]

Was the 1955 Istrouma High football team the greatest in Louisiana history?  As long as football is played in this state, that will be debated. Louisiana has only had one Heisman Trophy winner — Billy Cannon — and he starred on the 1955 team, which went undefeated and won the State Championship. 2015 is the […]

When I was a child the first college football hero I remember having was LSU Heisman Trophy winner Billy Cannon. Back in those days there was no ESPN. No 50 plus games a week on TV, and being at that age, I lived in New York and California, it’s hard to recollect how Billy became […]

Legendary Baton Rouge radio broadcaster Bob Furlow, 76, died Aug. 23, 2015, after a struggle with pancreatic cancer.  At WLCS, Furlow hosted the No. 1-rated morning show in Baton Rouge in the 1960’s and was a force in the Baton Rouge media market until his death. Bob Furlow was a proud graduate of Istrouma High […]

All three Republican candidates for Governor in the Oct. 24 primary sought the endorsement of the Republican Party of East Baton Rouge Parish, which held its endorsement process during August. The party, which is governed by the 17-member Republican Parish Executive   Committee,   or   PEC,   asked each candidate to fill out a lengthy questionnaire, […]

Over the past 50 years or so, few people have been better representatives of North Baton Rouge than Bob Furlow, the 1958 Istrouma grad and silver-tongued radio newsman and disc jockey at WLCS who was the No. 1 radio personality in this market in the 1960’s.  He went on to have a successful career in […]

There are a few — a very few — sports teams that live on in the memory of fans all their lives and whose legends are passed down through the generations.  One is LSU’s national championship team of 1958 and another is the Chinese Bandits, the third-string defensive unit on that championship team, which so […]

The Republican Party of East Baton Rouge Parish has endorsed Buddy Caldwell for reelection as Attorney General in the Oct. 24 primary. The party cited Caldwell’s conservative stand on 12 key issues: • Filed suit to block Obamacare; • Filed suit to protect the Louisiana Constitution’s ban on same-sex marriage; • Sought injunction to block […]

The Republican Party of East Baton Rouge Parish has made its endorsements in the race for Governor, and the local party has endorsed Sen. David Vitter and Public Service Commissioner Scott Angelle. The endorsement for Governor took on special significance because the Louisiana Republican Party is not making an endorsement for Governor.  But the Republican […]

This interview was conducted at the home of Mrs. Helen Fairchild across from Greenwell Springs Baptist Church.  She is in good health but has to use a walker to get around. Question: What was life like growing up in the early part of the 20th century? Miss Helen: My father was born in 1861 while […]