Today's top headlines.
with Jennifer Wadsworth | Assistant metro editorGood morning. Here are some stories to start your day … Mayoral security under scrutinyThe 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 backThe 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 returnsBaton 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. Thanks for reading! |
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| In a private meeting with upset parents, East Baton Rouge Parish school leaders admitted to screwing up when for about two weeks they place… Read more |
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| As the public falling out between Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center and its longtime partner Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center int… Read more |
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| When Keith Schroth, chief finance officer for the LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, pushed for a hefty pay bump for his son who wo… Read more |
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| In August, Gov. John Bel Edwards told state workers that once a coronavirus vaccine received full approval, they would likely face a choice… Read more |
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| The longtime owner of Cottonwood Books, Baton Rouge’s last remaining independent full-service bookstore, has put the business up for sale. Read more |
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| NEW YORK — Eighteen former NBA players have been charged with defrauding the league's health and welfare benefit plan out of about $4 milli… Read more |
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| Oil companies, like Shell, are benefitting from a huge spike in oil prices over recent weeks. Read more |
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| A man who robbed and shot at a woman who was selling him an Xbox fled and was arrested after she managed to wound him with her own gun, Bat… Read more |
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| The owner of seven nursing homes that evacuated 843 residents to a squalid warehouse for Hurricane Ida has filed appeal documents to get hi… Read more |
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