 BY DOUG GRAHAM | Deputy metro editor A measure before the Legislature would create a council to provide security and improved lighting within a proposed "State Capitol Complex," which would include the Spanish Town neighborhood. A civic leader in the area says he has been concerned by the vagueness and lack of communication on the bill's impact.
An East Feliciana Parish couple will go to prison after they were sentenced Wednesday by a judge who said they allowed their daughter to die of neglect. Both had pleaded no contest to manslaughter. Their daughter was found dead in January 2022, sunken into a waste-filled hole in a couch.
LSU will open the NCAA Tournament on Friday against 14-seeded Rice as the Tigers begin their quest to repeat as national champions. Read about what to watch in the Baton Rouge regional. | 
