Lit Yoshi's bond gets revoked, blue-tarp roofs OK'd for Ida-struck parishes, embattled nursing home owner sends threatening texts

The Advocate's Top Headlines

with Jennifer Wadsworth | Assistant metro editor

Good morning. Let's run through some of our latest headlines.

Threats, rambling messages

Bob Dean — the businessman under fire for warehousing 850 sick, elderly and, in several cases, dying hurricane evacuees in a small Tangipahoa town —could've hired a PR firm to help him navigate the scrutinizing publicity. Instead, he took matters into his own hands, exchanging texts and phone calls with regulators and reporters that were, in turn, threatening, rambling, bizarre.

Here's a story about the nursing home magnate's puzzling response to the scandal.

Hours after that story came out, a pro-Sen. John Kennedy political committee returned a $25,000 donation from Dean, which you can read about in this piece.

Outside the levees

Louisiana spent billions of dollars since Hurricane Katrina to build up levees that protect cities and suburbs alike. But for some of the rural communities outside the earth barriers, the flood protections make them feel more vulnerable. Our reporter James Finn has the story.

Broken bond

A judge revoked rapper Lit Yoshi's $1.8 million bond over a new arrest that turned up guns in his south Florida home. Reporter Joe Gyan Jr. writes about the latest development in the attempted murder case in this story.

Ida updates

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