The Advocate's Top Headlines

with Jennifer Wadsworth | Assistant metro editor

Good morning. Let's take a look at some of our top stories today.

Holiday parade returns

After a pandemic hiatus, the Kiwanis Christmas parade — a tradition in downtown Baton Rouge since 1948 — made a comeback, which you can read about here and enjoy photos of in this gallery.

New judge elected

A longtime criminal defense attorney and ex-prosecutor, Carson Marcantel, won a seat on the Baton Rouge City Court Saturday, defeating lawyer Terrel "TK" Kent in a special election. Here's how the numbers shook out. 

LSU prof arrested

Campus police say they found videos depicting child rape and bestiality on an LSU professor's work computer. The 27-year veteran of the university's AgCenter was arrested Friday after officers cornered him at his office, where police say he tried to make off with a hard drive later booked as evidence. 

Victims in drive-by ID'd

Police identified the victims in a deadly drive-by shooting in Baton Rouge Friday as a 5-year-old boy and his uncle. Their killings add to an already record murder toll in Louisiana's capital, as Elyse Carmosino reports. 

Labor dispute in St. Helena 

A rural Louisiana parish threatened to lay off workers unless they put in 13-hour days, seven days a week over the summer to mend ditches and cut back out-of-control overgrowth. Though that sounds illegal, at least one labor lawyer we spoke to says it's probably not, as our Florida Parishes reporter James Finn explains.

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