Today's top headlines.
with Jennifer Wadsworth | Assistant metro editorGood morning. Here's some of what we've covered in the past day …
Shootings off Plank RoadTwo people were shot off of Plank Road Thursday evening — one sustained life-threatening injuries, BRPD told us. When our reporter Elyse Carmosino arrived to the scene, neighbors told her they heard more than a dozen shots fired. Here's what we know about what happened.
'We're all calling him a hero'The victim of another shooting — this one at a bar over the weekend in Erwinville — was memorialized Wednesday in a service that drew friends, family and others in the small, tight-knit community. They remembered Trey Allen, who was 21, as a beloved baseball coach, a skilled hunter and "kind-hearted country boy." Elyse Carmosino covered the service, which you can read about here.
FEMA fraudA federal damage assessor showed up to a house in Tangipahoa Parish to verify a Hurricane Ida relief claim … only to find that the house was fine. And the person who lived there didn't even ask for help. Turns out, it was an early case of FEMA fraud, which tends to follow natural disasters and which officials are warning folks to look out for. James Finn has the story.
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 | In what's likely just the first salvo in a series of investigations into potential civil rights abuses by Louisiana state troopers, federal… Read more |
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 | Louisiana’s supply of monoclonal antibody treatments, a drug the state has relied on heavily to try and keep COVID-19 patients from becomin… Read more |
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 | Investigators used DNA, dental records, medical history to ID Timothy Satterlee Sr., 71 Read more |
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 | Hurricane Ida did at least $584 million in damage to the Louisiana agriculture industry, according to a new report from the LSU AgCenter. Read more |
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 | The Livingston Parish Fair, a traditional fall pastime for the region since the 1930s, has been canceled for the second year in a row follo… Read more |
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 | State health officials now say that 15 nursing home residents have died out of a group of more than 800 that was evacuated to a warehouse i… Read more |
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 | A damage assessor from the Federal Emergency Management Agency showed up at someone's house in Tangipahoa Parish this week to verify a Hurr… Read more |
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 | One of the busiest convenience stores in Baton Rouge is going to expand, now that the owners have purchased a 1-acre site off College Drive… Read more |
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 | In addition to a scathing audit highlighting a range of improper behavior, a cadre of top male administrators at the LSU Health Sciences Ce… Read more |
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