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with Jennifer Wadsworth | Assistant metro editor

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Tax return

Baton Rouge parks stand to gain another $3.7 million a year now that BREC reverted its property tax rate back to a pre-pandemic limit. In this story, reporter Paul Cobler explains how that cost breaks down for individual property owners and where the money will go. 

Stranded for days

A toddler was left stranded for days in a Baton Rouge apartment where his mom died. Rescuers said the 2-year-old boy was hospitalized for dehydration but should recover. A coroner, meanwhile, is trying to figure out what led to the mother's death, which appears to have been from natural causes. 

Lea Skene has the story.

Myth busters

As Louisiana grapples with another COVID surge, a number of women doctors have teamed up to fight misinformation about the coronavirus vaccine causing infertility and pregnancy complications.

Such myths, they say, have kept people from getting inoculated and led to more and more local pregnant women hospitalized for COVID.

"They are almost all unvaccinated," one doctor told reporter Andrea Gallo.

Click here to read her story.

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