Today's top headlines.
with Jennifer Wadsworth | Assistant metro editorGood morning! Here's what we've been writing about this weekend …
'Our detectives are working hard'As murders soar in Baton Rouge, case-closure rates continue to fall. While the Sheriff's Office manages to keep pace with homicides in unincorporated parts of the parish, BRPD struggles to resolve murder cases in the city proper. Elyse Carmosino and Lea Skene have the story.
Cox outage Internet and cable service went out for much of southeast Louisiana from Friday night through Saturday morning. Cox, the state's leading internet service provider, didn't elaborate on what caused the massive outage beyond saying it had something to do with "voltage issues." Reporter Elyse Carmosino interviewed folks in the capital region to find out how they were affected. Here's her story.
Homicide in South Baton RougeA man fatally shot his wife at a relative's home off Pecan Tree Drive late Friday before turning the gun on himself. Here's what police told us about the shooting.
Thanks for reading, and have a great day! |
|
|
|
 | Last week the governor stood before his emergency operations podium to riff a trending TikTok bit featuring Noodle, a pug. Read more |
|
|
 | A man who fatally shot his estranged wife before turning the gun on himself at their Pecan Tree Drive home is not expected to survive, the … Read more |
|
|
 | An cable-and-internet outage that started Friday evening and lasted for upward of 11 hours across much of southeast Louisiana was caused by… Read more |
|
|
|
|
|
|---|
 | Since its beta launch on Aug. 8, 2020 (International Cat Day), cat owner dating app Tabby has amassed 50,000 users who wish to prioritize a… Read more |
|
|
 | Jeska Carmouche was asleep when her uncle came into her room in the dark, early morning hours to relay the news: Her brother, the boy she h… Read more |
|
|
 | Roydall Lumar paints a dramatic scene of what led to a fight about a week ago in the office of his former attorney, Ascension Parish Counci… Read more |
|
|
|
|
|
|---|
 | A year after launching his receipt-tracking app, aptly titled I Hate Receipts, Ryan Greene has secured $1.4 million in funding and signed p… Read more |
|
|
 | A federal judge reversed course Friday and said local rapper NBA YoungBoy does not have to remain jailed while awaiting trial in Baton Roug… Read more |
|
|
 | At the LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, a blistering internal report on the campus police force flagged serious issues of incompe… Read more |
|
|
|
|
|
|---|
|
|
