Could bagasse be big business? Also, full coverage of new LSU baseball coach's first appearance

The Advocate's Top Headlines

with Matthew Albright | Assistant metro editor

Good morning! Thanks for reading The Advocate; here's some of our most interesting stories from yesterday.

Could bagasse be big business?

If you've spent any time driving around rural South Louisiana, you've probably seen the enormous piles of "bagasse," the leftover waste product from processing sugarcane. What if there could be a productive use for all that material?

This renewable fuels company thinks it could turn bagasse into fuel pellets that could run power plants around the world. And it's considering building a plant in Jeanerette that would be worth $70 million.

Check out this story to see how it might work.

More gunfire in Baton Rouge rap group feud?

Baton Rouge rapper "NBA Youngboy" and his associates have made numerous headlines in Baton Rouge. A running feud between Youngboy's "Never Broke Again" group and their rivals in the "Top Boy Gorilla" group has often turned violent.

Now it turns out that a rapper with whom Youngboy has collaborated, who goes by BBG Baby Joe, was one of the people wounded when two cars got into a shootout Saturday night on Siegen Lane near the I-10 overpass.

This story explains the tangled web of rap group feuds that may have led to the shooting.

Welcome to LSU

The Tigers' new head baseball coach, Jay Johnson, got his official welcome to campus on Monday. Our sports team has everything you want to know, including an in-depth profile of Johnson, some top takeaways from his first press conference, and a full replay of his comments.

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