 BY DEANNA B. NARVESON | Staff writer Two weeks later: Dozens of people injured in the attack on Bourbon Street are forever changed, with a long road ahead as they attempt to heal. People in their 20s are learning how to walk again. Others are undergoing grueling rounds of surgeries, each one a reminder of that night, when along with being injured they saw people they love killed. According to initial counts, 35 people were injured and 14 were killed in the attack when a 42-year-old Army veteran in a white pickup whipped around a police vehicle blocking Bourbon Street and floored the gas. But as time has passed, the number of injured has grown to 57, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigations. Read about their stories from New Orleans-based reporter Emily Woodruff.
What happens now? When Texas-based IDEA Public Schools opened two large campuses in Baton Rouge in 2018, it was the education equivalent of a new Buc-ee’s coming to town. State and local leaders trumpeted a network with “proven success," and billboards throughout Baton Rouge boasted of “100% college acceptance." But seven years later, the charter management organization is closing down both schools as the network withdraws entirely from Louisiana. School leaders told parents “we have not delivered the academic results our students deserve.” Read more.
Appeal denied: Baton Rouge's civil service board denied Monday a request to overturn the firings of three police officers accused of beating a man and trying to cover it up. The matter will now head to a trial-like hearing in February, as the officers push to be reinstated and potentially secure back pay. Read the latest. | 
