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with Jennifer Wadsworth | Assistant metro editor

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Mayoral security under scrutiny

The mayor of New Roads, a town of 5,000, used more than $20,000 in taxpayer money on a police security detail with no public purpose, an audit found. What's worse, the report says, he would have his police bodyguards ferry him around — including one time out to party on Bourbon Street.

David Mitchell's got the scoop. 

Bob Dean wants his nursing homes back

The owner of the nursing home chain that left nearly 850 patients in a squalid warehouse after evacuating them ahead of Hurricane Ida is trying to get his business up and running again. In appealing his license revocation by the state, Bob Dean said the patients faced "no cruelty or indifference" in his care, though several died and their families described them living in inhumane conditions.

Andrea Gallo and John Simerman bring us the story here. 

A filmmaker returns

Baton Rouge's Gretchen Zufall shot her film, "The Charmed Life of Fig Dauphine," in south Louisiana and returns Friday with co-producer husband Hardy Justice, from their Brooklyn, New York, home to show it and answer questions from the audience at the Manship Theatre.

Read all about it here.

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