By KELLY P. KISSEL | Metro editor The country music scene around Baton Rouge provides our top headlines today. Garth Brooks visits the city tomorrow for a show in Tiger Stadium, but everyone is talking today about the arrest of American Idol winner Laine Hardy on an eavesdropping charge. The Hardy news is a bit more shocking so we'll go with that one first: By Jacqueline DeRobertis, Elyse Carmosino and James Finn • Busted flat in Baton Rouge And here's a look at how businesses have prepared for the influx of people for the Brooks concert. By Timothy Boone • Businesses excited about Brooks callin' on Baton Rouge Ascension Parish's moratorium on neighborhood developments expires next month. Moving forward, they want to put additional limits on expansion through their own rules, and not leaving it up to developers themselves. By David Mitchell • Changing the figurative and literal landscape And a state senator has stirred up a mess by saying state investigators shared a portion of a child pornography video with him while seeking his vote on a bill. By Blake Paterson • What were they thinking? We have all our other Baton Rouge headlines on the website, and you can see our print edition any time, too. |