Anyone who thinks Kevin Durant is trying to be anyone other than himself need only peek at his Twitter bio for evidence to the contrary. "IM ME, I DO ME, AND I CHILL," it reads. Or, of course, they could wait to see his starring role in a forthcoming major motion picture.
Investigators suspect foul play in the disappearance of a 51-year-old schoolteacher who was reported missing July 18 near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, authorities said Tuesday.
As a Louisianian who has spent a considerable amount of time on the East Coast, I thought I would take this opportunity to give you some tips on how to deal with your little dust-up on the Atlantic. Be advised, my tips are based completely on personal experience.
NEW ORLEANS -- The season is lost. The numbers don't lie: Defeats to teams from Georgia, Oklahoma, Illinois, Arizona, two places in Pennsylvania and three in Florida, one of them twice. Shut out at home, in The Graveyard. Yes, there have been turnovers. Yes, there have been injuries. Yes, there have been transactions. Lord have there been transactions. On the active roster of 24 players, 11 remain from training camp, some of whom joined through open tryouts at City Park, paying $60 for the chance, which was all they were ever promised, a chance, that and a T-shirt. The latest addition is 37 years old. He's a skill player: A defensive back.
The Army Corps of Engineers on Monday closed the last floodgates on Louisiana's Bonnet Carre Spillway, which was opened May 9 to prevent the Mississippi River from flooding New Orleans and Baton Rouge.
Pedestrians and bicyclists were allowed back on a Mississippi River levee in Baton Rouge, one of two developments Saturday that showed the flooding crisis in Louisiana was easing.
Louisiana's swollen Atchafalaya River was slowly receding along its entire length Tuesday after federal authorities flooded it to save the Mississippi River cities of New Orleans and Baton Rouge, the National Weather Service reported.
More than $2 billion worth of residential properties face potential flood damage from the opening of the Morganza Spillway in Louisiana, according to a new study.
Nearly 15% of the nation's refining capacity and hundreds of oil wells are at risk as the flood crest along the swollen Mississippi river makes its way into Louisiana over the next few days.
Mandatory evacuations begin in low-lying areas of St. Landry Parish, Louisiana.
The Morganza spillway is opened to ease the swollen Mississippi and avoid damage downstream. CNN's Barbara Hall reports.
European tourists at Graceland are horrified by the smell of sewage wafting all over the city. WPTY reports.
Resilience got Louisianans through what's known as the Flood of 1973, and it will again, says everyone from the governor to local residents once again facing the threat of floods.
Andrew Fahlund of American Rivers talks about environmental techniques that can ease reliance on levees during floods.
As a historic crest of the swollen Mississippi River rolls southward, residents throughout the river region are on high alert and braced for the possibility of more flooding in the days ahead.
Baton Rouge braces for a massive flood if a spillway opens. WBRZ reports.
Residents of the Atchafalaya Basin in south-central Louisiana are as diverse as the unique waterways that course through the heart of Cajun country.
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal tells residents not to panic as rivers swell.
Memphis is on high alert as the Mississippi River continues to rise. CNN's Holly Firfer reports.
People up and down the Mississippi River could feel the effects from this week's epic flooding long after the water recedes.
Some American children are facing circumstances so dire that they require foreign aid to supplement services such as tutoring and reading programs, said a report by the Children's Defense Fund released Tuesday.
• Rachel McAdams and new beau Michael Sheen grabbed a table for themselves at Tsunami Sushi in Baton Rouge, La., where Sheen is currently filming Breaking Dawn. According to onlookers, the couple was sitting side by side and looked "very cozy together. It was obvious they were romantically together." The two ordered off the menu and stayed for a few hours, enjoying the late night dinner while Sheen's castmates like Ashley Greene and Kellan Lutz ate at the sushi bar in a group.
For some fans, tailgating is something to do before a football game.
A man described as a former employee shot and killed two people and seriously wounded another at a Baton Rouge, Louisiana, construction company before workers wrestled him to the ground, sheriff's officials said.
BATON ROUGE, La. -- Officially, Tim Tebow was not cleared to play against LSU until he passed his last set of medical tests late Saturday morning. Unofficially, the Florida star knew he was OK when he survived the flight from Gainesville to Baton Rouge.
Kristin Budden's hotel promises her a refund for her nonrefundable hotel room after a hurricane strikes. But months later, there's no sign of the money and the hotel has gone into radio silence. Should she kiss the money goodbye?
A man shot his estranged wife to death, along with their son and grandson, before turning the gun on himself as police closed in, authorities in Livingston Parish, Louisiana, said Sunday.
Gasoline prices rose more than 15 cents in the past two weeks, the result of rising crude oil prices, according to a survey published Sunday.
Despite travelers taking to the road for vacations and the Independence Day weekend coming up, gasoline prices in the United States are unchanged from two weeks ago, according to a survey published Sunday.
The low-down on all eight College World Series participants with detailed scouting reports from coaches who faced them during the regular season.
Prices at the pump are up nearly 10 cents from three weeks ago, according to a survey published Sunday.
Prices at the pump have fallen slightly for the first time since December, according to a survey published Sunday.
GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Marcus Thornton remembers sitting at home and watching LSU play in the 2006 Final Four.
Around this time a year ago, with LSU about to face former coach Nick Saban's Alabama team for the first time, I put on a psychologist's cap to answer a question from a reader who wondered why Tigers fans held such disdain toward a man who had done so much good for their program.
Grocer Marc Robért II went through hell after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans in 2005. In the last three years, he has managed massive renovations on several of his supermarkets heavily damaged by the Katrina flood, and he fought for and won a $20 million settlement from the insurer that had refused to pay his claims.
It was dark and hot and everyone was bone tired on Sunday night in Baton Rouge. But they still came, many in truck after truck, to a parking lot on the edge of the city, all armed with shovels.
The path of Hurricane Gustav offered New Orleans a reprieve, but 80 miles away where utilities say the devastation was the worst they have ever seen, the storm offered nothing but punishment
As thousands of Louisiana residents nervously return home, wondering whether Hurricane Gustav left any permanent scars on their lives, there is no such mystery for Delphine Orgeron. The 67-year-old New Orleans native who rode out the hurricane in a shelter near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is homeless, living on the street, sleeping in her car.
Buffing his administration's reputation for handling hurricanes, President Bush viewed toppled trees and downed power lines in Louisiana on Wednesday and declared that the government's response to Hurricane Gustav was "excellent"
The Associated Press has learned that some 800 patients in a dozen Louisiana hospitals may have to be evacuated in the next three days because the facilities do not have air conditioning
A bar owner won't be among the thousands streaming back into the city, which was spared the worst of Gustav
Tiny, sick newborn babies were among the first to be evacuated as coastal hospitals prepared for Hurricane Gustav.
Danielle Dayton and Patrick Murray received the call Saturday afternoon: Their 4-pound son, Brayden Murray, was shipping out.
"I'm with FEMA," I overheard a man tell a woman at the bar at the Embassy Suites in Baton Rouge. That was a pick-up line, believe it or not, which says a lot about the difference between Gustav today and Katrina three years ago. This time - so far, at least - the authorities are on the case, apparently doing exactly what they're supposed to do.
As Hurricane Katrina honed in on New Orleans, Louisiana, three years ago, anxious residents -- unaware that the storm would register as one of the most destructive forces of nature on record -- pondered their options.
A construction company owner who lost two homes in Hurricane Katrina claimed a $97 million Powerball prize
A boat carrying state prison employees collided with a barge on the swollen Mississippi River upstream from Baton Rouge on Sunday, injuring 18 people
Authorities say a man dressed in black opened fire from a stage of a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University, killing four people and himself
Police say a woman shot and killed two people at a Louisiana techinical college in Baton Rouge before killing herself.
A female student shot two other women and herself Friday inside a classroom on the Baton Rouge campus of Louisiana Technical College, authorities said.
It's getting on, and I'm already late for my appointment at the tattooist's, so I'll make this short. Here are my co-Emailers of the Week and away we go.
BATON ROUGE, La. -- Expectations hang over the LSU football program. Literally.
Gas prices fell 10.72 cents over the past two weeks, to $2.78 per gallon of self-serve regular, according to a national survey.
Every year the Southeastern Conference boasts that it's the strongest league in college football, and a look at the schedules explains why. Just try to set up a soft schedule. With so many good teams in the SEC, it just cannot be done.
SI.com: Re-working overtimeupdated: Sun Mar 18 2007 23:41:00
I've never been a big fan of the NFL's current overtime system. Even though only 29 percent of all overtime games have been won on the first possession of extra time, that's 29 percent too often for me. NFL teams have only 16 regular-season games a year, and those games are too important for something as vital as first possession of the ball to be determined by a coin flip. The rule is madness. Both teams should have at least one crack at the ball in overtime.
CNN.com asked readers for their thoughts and reactions to the news from British police of a terrorist plot to blow up passenger jets heading to the U.S. Here is a sampling of the responses, some of which have been edited:
Fortune: Rise Aboveupdated: Mon Dec 12 2005 00:01:00
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Development and storms have eroded much of the coastal wetlands that provide "speed bumps" for approaching storms. CNN.com asked readers whether steps should be taken to rebuild them. Here is a sampling of those responses, some of which have been edited:
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Check here for the latest information on Hurricane Rita and from the Katrina-stricken Gulf Coast region. Items are time-stamped when entered.
The red-hot U.S. housing market, after a typical summer slowdown, has taken off again and Hurricane Katrina contributed to up-ticks in several localities.
In one weekend, Debbie Este, the New Orleans mother rescued with her two teenage daughters from the attic of their flooded home, left a Baton Rouge shelter for temporary housing in South Carolina, and was reunited with her brother, Aldo, by phone.
CNN's Sean Callebs in New Orleans, Louisiana Posted: 1:28 p.m. ET
New Orleans families uprooted by Hurricane Katrina have triggered a rush on real estate in nearby Baton Rouge, causing a sudden surge in home prices as people realize they will not be quickly returning home, according to an informal sampling of real estate experts and the city's mayor.
Hurricane Katrina emptied one city of its people and filled another.
Posted: 4:10 p.m. ET CNN's Ted Rowlands in Biloxi, Mississippi
Charity Hospital, where about 200 patients and doctors were trapped in deplorable conditions, was fully evacuated of all patients and personnel.
When it comes to assessing the effectiveness of the emergency response to Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, two divergent -- and incongruous -- views have emerged over more than three long days of misery.
Louisiana officials Monday urged the hundreds of thousands of people in the state who fled Hurricane Katrina to stay where they are.
Flooding from Hurricane Katrina's Monday landfall could wreak catastrophe on New Orleans, overwhelming the city's water and sewage systems and leaving survivors in a bowl of toxic soup, a top hurricane expert said.
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Fortune: HEAVEN EXPRESS?updated: Mon Oct 24 1988 00:01:00
Short of cash on Sunday mornings? That's no excuse. Just pull out your plastic. Last month, parishioners at St. Marks United Methodist Church in Lincoln, Nebraska, became one of the first congregat...
Money Magazine: When renting is rightupdated: Mon Jun 01 1987 00:01:00
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