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A Baton Rouge business says an ongoing issue outside its doors has forced them to spend thousands of dollars to fix a problem ...

TOWARDS ADDRESSING A MUCH BIGGER ISSUE. I’M GLAD THE DA AND THE COUNTY HAS TAKEN THEIR MEASURES AGAINST THIS ACTION. 35 YEAR OLD MARCEL SIMMONS IS NOW IN CUSTODY, MORE THAN A WEEK AFTER HE DEFECATED ...

Climate change makes toilets more likely to break, which leaves people more likely to “go” outside. This is a huge source of pollution and a major risk to human health. That’s what colleagues and I ...

Ending the practice of defecating in the open, rather than in a toilet, will have “transformational benefits” for some of the world’s most vulnerable people, says the UN’s partner sanitation body, the ...