More of today's top headlines
with Kelly P. Kissel | Metro editorThanks for joining us on your way to the weekend. Here are some of our top stories today. Lea Skene traveled to Bastrop, Orlando and other points to find out more about Ronald Greene, the north Louisiana motorist brutalized by State Police. Here's her story. Blake Paterson takes a look at the decision to let Louisiana remain open for business despite having a COVID wave that, by many measures, is worse than any of those we've had before. Check it out here. Meanwhile, as Louisiana's COVID numbers climb, we track them here. |
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 | BASTROP — For Ronald Greene, this sleepy town north of Monroe offered new beginnings and familiar pitfalls. Read more |
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 | Inside Louisiana’s hospitals, the battle against COVID-19 is as dire as ever. Patients in the state’s COVID wards, mostly unvaccinated, are… Read more |
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 | The Baton Rouge Blues Festival, scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 18, has joined the long list of Louisiana festivals that won’t happen this fa… Read more |
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 | An avid New Orleans Saints fan, who was befriended by Drew Brees following a tragic accident, has died due to COVID-19 and pneumonia, his f… Read more |
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 | Coca-Cola Bottling Company UNITED expects to invest $42 million for an expansion of its bottling site in Baton Rouge which sits along Plank… Read more |
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 | Five years after devastating floods gutted a Denham Springs public housing complex, its tenants are one step closer to returning home. Read more |
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 | As the parallel lines being drawn between this LSU football season and the 2019 campaign begin to converge on that point on the horizon tha… Read more |
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 | Justice Williams may be leaving high school a year early, but he already has his sights set on the NBA as he joins the LSU basketball program. Read more |
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 | Laine Hardy's jetted to Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, to sing for the troops; performed his hit "Memorize You" on ABC's "The Bachelorett… Read more |
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