Guy Coates, longtime AP reporter in Louisiana, dies at 80
Guy Coates, longtime AP reporter in Louisiana, dies at 80 By KEVIN McGILLJanuary 14, 2021 GMT NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Guy Coates, a former Associated Press correspondent who covered Gulf Coast hurricanes and civil rights, dodged gunfire during a New Orleans sniper’s shooting spree and chronicled the tumult of politics in his native Louisiana for four decades, died late Tuesday. He was 80. His wife Jonica said Wednesday that he died at their Baton Rouge home of natural causes. A graduate of Northeast Louisiana University in his hometown of Monroe, Coates worked stints at the Corpus Christi (Te...
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