Today's top headlines.
with Jennifer Wadsworth | Assistant metro editorGood morning, and welcome to the first weekend this fall.
Remapping Baton RougeThe 2020 Census showed slight population shifts in East Baton Rouge, which is poised to start the months-long process of remapping Metro Council and School Board boundaries to reflect that. Our reporter Terry Jones breaks it down in this story.
The great gumbo debateDo you prefer rice or potato salad in your gumbo? That's the question we posed in a reader poll … the results of which you can see here.
New revelations in murder caseSix years after the strangled bodies of a septuagenarian Baton Rouge couple were found in their pickup at a Hammond gas station, jury selection is about to begin in the trial of one of two of their accused murderers. In court records filed this week, we learned that the couple's jewelry was found at accused killer Frank Garcia's Florida home, and that the victims' daughter said her father "previously hid cocaine in his house." Reporter Joe Gyan has the story.
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 | Louisianans aged 65 and up and anyone prone to severe illness could qualify for a third shot of the Pfizer COVID vaccine as early as next w… Read more |
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 | Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center and Baton Rouge General, along with Louisiana Hematology Oncology Associates have signed a letter of intent… Read more |
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 | Trading ended Friday on the Burkenroad Fund, a unique small cap mutual fund set up by students at Tulane University’s A.B. Freeman School o… Read more |
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 | Since the East Ascension drainage panel voted to remove the parish president as head of drainage this summer, a clutch of council members a… Read more |
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 | A K-9 with the Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office died of heat exhaustion after an officer left him in a patrol car unattended. Read more |
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 | In what's likely just the first salvo in a series of investigations into potential civil rights abuses by Louisiana state troopers, federal… Read more |
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 | Two male victims were shot off of Plank Road Thursday evening, Baton Rouge police said. Read more |
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 | While still busy, the phone lines to apply for disaster food stamps calmed down considerably on Thursday. Read more |
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 | The Livingston Parish Fair, a traditional fall pastime for the region since the 1930s, has been canceled for the second year in a row follo… Read more |
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