 BY MATTHEW ALBRIGHT | Staff writer A fight at a Baton Rouge alternative school Wednesday soon turned into a campus-wide melee involving potentially hundreds of people, the sheriff's office said. A BRPD officer was hospitalized with a broken hip, officials said, and 10 people were arrested. Here's what we know.
In a lawsuit over unpaid vacation time, the East Baton Rouge Public Defender's Office agreed to pay a $167,384 settlement — but it failed to pay the first installment on time, the plaintiffs claim in new court motions. Here's what the former employees say happened, and how it fits into larger tension at the public defender's office.
The debate over what books are appropriate in libraries is heating up in Louisiana. Late Tuesday night, Livingston Parish fired a library board member in a tense meeting, just after the library system's director announced his resignation. And the Lafayette library system now faces a lawsuit claiming censorship. | 
