Today's top headlines.
with Jennifer Wadsworth | Assistant metro editorGood afternoon. Let's run through some of today's latest stories. Police: mom helped accused killers escape BRPD jailed a woman who allegedly helped her two teen sons flee to Texas after their involvement in a triple homicide at a Memorial Day pool party, officials told us. Thirty-six-year-old Latoya Coleman was one of three people arrested Tuesday in connection to the College Drive shooting. One of the victims was a year-old girl. Here's our latest report on the case. They're baaaaack ...It's stranded Tiki Tuber season on the Amite, and their rescuers have just about had it. Reporter James Finn writes about why the Livingston Parish fire chief is "dreading" the coming months. A true shepherdFacing the wreckage to his church after the 2016 flooding and the isolation of the pandemic, the Rev. Mike Moroney had a bigger concern: He couldn't meet face to face with the parishioners of St. Alphonsus Catholic Church. It's how this man from Ireland who came to south Louisiana has always done the Lord's work as he marks 50 years as a priest. Blippi is comingThe Raising Cane's River Center has lined up four acts for the coming months, marking its reopening after the pandemic. First up on July 5 to 6 is YouTube superstar Blippi (ask your kids). Read about that show and what other acts are booked here. Thanks for reading! |
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| After detectives found evidence that a Baton Rouge mother had helped her two sons flee to Texas following their alleged involvement in a Me… Read more |
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| Editor’s note: This story includes descriptions of sexual abuse of children. Read more |
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| As a popular water sports company welcomes people back to the Amite River for a lockdown-free river season, a local fire district chief is … Read more |
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| The Husch Blackwell report that examined LSU’s culture of downplaying – sometimes ignoring – complaints of sexual misconduct contained reck… Read more |
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| Brad Davis is grinning. It's a subtle grin, a slight sign of emotion within this small thumbnail photo that's not unlike any of the other e… Read more |
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| Louisiana lawmakers gave final passage Tuesday to a proposal requiring doctors to suggest to women taking the abortion pill that the drug-i… Read more |
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| An appeals court has upheld a Baton Rouge man's manslaughter conviction and 37-year prison term in the 2013 killing of a man after a dice g… Read more |
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| A state panel says an East Baton Rouge Parish Family Court judge committed judicial misconduct when she had the stepmother of a child invol… Read more |
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| The reopened Raising Cane's River Center in Baton Rouge has details on four events happening in 2021 — first up, "Blippi: The Musical." Read more |
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