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with Kelly P. Kissel | Metro editorHoping you recovered from the election, and the LSU game, and the Saints game. Here's what's making news today.
A large number of the public defenders working within the state court system in Baton Rouge have left their jobs since the summer. There are questions now on whether the office can provide adequate assistance to poor defendants in the court system, as Lea Skene and Jackie DeRobertis explain. Terry Jones takes a look at Baton Rouge's proposed budget increase. The spending plan is more than 5 percent larger than the current budget. And from our Living section: Hundreds of these majestic birds have swooped in (many on the lakes by LSU) for their annual winter visit. ‘Now is the time when most of the birds are here in peak numbers,’ says Rob Dobbs, of the state Department of Wildlife and Fisheries. Find out more about these big birds here. |
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 | The East Baton Rouge Parish budget is set to grow by more than $50 million, or 5.2%, in 2022, with new efforts to improve permitting and ma… Read more |
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 | The once widespread, but still common practice of hiring school employees before the completion of their criminal background checks recentl… Read more |
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 | When recreational cave explorers stumbled upon fossils on the surface of the Rising Star caves in South Africa, they unknowingly introduced… Read more |
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 | Since July, about a third of the attorneys in the East Baton Rouge Office of the Public Defender have quit, documents show, leaving some co… Read more |
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 | LAKE CHARLES — When the Golden Nugget unveiled its new sportsbook here last week, it showed its hand and made no bones about it. Read more |
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 | What’s wrong with this picture? In an 1837 painting, a Black teenager stands beside a trio of White children. A recent historical discovery… Read more |
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 | On a daily basis, school cafeterias in the Greater Baton Rouge area are short of workers, food items and supplies — a predicament seen acro… Read more |
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 | Ed Orgeron approached the podium Saturday night teary eyed. For the second straight week, LSU had nearly pulled off an upset, and for the s… Read more |
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 | The American white pelicans have arrived in Baton Rouge. Read more |
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