Today's top headlines.
with Jennifer Wadsworth | Assistant metro editor
The hurricane continued to dominate headlines, with Ida's death toll mounting Wednesday to 26. Most of the fatalities stemmed from the storm's aftermath. In other recovery-related news: - Schools in the capital region are pushing to reopen. In this story, reporters James Finn and Jacqueline DeRobertis have the latest accounting of which campus plans to open when.
- Insurance companies are supposed to comp Ida evacuees for hotel stays. Our business reporter Kristen Mosbrucker tells us what homeowners need to know about the state rule.
- We're learning about more and more oil spills in the wake of the hurricane. Here's the latest on that front.
In East Baton Rouge local governance news: - The Metro Council OK'd stricter new development rules aimed at curbing future flood risk. Paul Cobler covered the meeting where city-parish leaders took the unanimous vote.
On the COVID front: - Louisiana's flagship university says it'll kick out students who fail to comply with its pandemic policy. Caroline Savoie has the scoop.
We also covered the untimely death of Burreaux, a 20-month-old giraffe at the Baton Rouge Zoo who came down with a sudden, inexplicable illness on Tuesday. BREC officials say he then "took a turn for the worse," succumbing to whatever ailed him in the middle of the night Wednesday. Here's what Elyse Carmosino wrote about the death, which came a week after the zoo celebrated the birth of his younger sister.
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 | LSU students have just a couple more days to comply with the school's pandemic protocol or risk getting kicked out. Read more |
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 | Ten days after Hurricane Ida shredded her roof, Candace Pepp was the first of up to 70,000 households in Louisiana to get a temporary roof … Read more |
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 | Gov. John Bel Edwards ordered the delay of upcoming elections that featured important Constitutional questions statewide and municipal ele… Read more |
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 | Less than half the reports have been investigated by the Coast Guard Read more |
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 | Baton Rouge police are asking the public for helping identifying a woman who struck a corner store employee with her car last month. Read more |
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 | It will feel cooler, drier and less humid. Read more |
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 | It could be two weeks after Hurricane Ida before some hard-hit schools in the Baton Rouge region open their doors again to students. Linger… Read more |
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 | Gambling regulators authorized moving a casino license from Bossier City to Slidell. Read more |
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 | LSU will set up a dozen sites outside Tiger Stadium on Saturday to check its football fans' vaccination status in an effort to speed entry … Read more |
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