BY MATTHEW ALBRIGHT | Staff writer The word was out: Drag racers and stunt drivers were planning to hit Baton Rouge's streets on Friday. And police showed up in force. After a game of cat and mouse across several different locations, police finally cornered a bunch of the racers and ended up towing 26 cars and issuing dozens of citations. Here's how it all went down, and how it fits into a larger crackdown on stunt driving. Elderly Louisianans died and languished in squalor, and the state agency tasked with protecting them missed their cases, a recent audit found. The audit raises serious questions about how our state protects vulnerable senior citizens who are not able to protect themselves. Here's what it found. If you're a chef in our region, you've got to have high standards. So if a chef picks a place to be pampered, you have to figure that's a good place to check out. We asked 12 of them to pick their go-to place for a more-than-ordinary meal. Here's what they told us. |