The Advocate's Top Headlines

with Jennifer Wadsworth| Assistant metro editor

Good morning. Here's what we've been writing about lately. 

More power to ya'

The capital region's biggest power provider is working on a project that aims to lessen the chance of outages and speed up the time it takes to bring customers back on the grid. Expected to wrap up before the year's end, the project will benefit thousands of local ratepayers. Ellyn Couvillion has the story. 

Still on the lam 

Remember those five teens who broke out of juvenile hall last week? Well, one was still on the run Wednesday, and police said his girlfriend helped him escape, Elyse Carmosino reports. 

Blindsided

Visually impaired students at Louisiana State University rely on the kindness of peers to lead them around campus. That's because the school considers wayfinding and navigation support a "personal service" and not a right, as Caroline Savoie writes about in this piece. 

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