Today's top headlines.
with Jennifer Wadsworth | Assistant metro editorGood morning. Let's take a look at some of our top stories today. Election day is upon usDepending on where you live in the capital region, today's the day to vote on a tax renewal, drainage fee or judgeship. If you're looking for a handy guide to what's on the ballot, we got you covered. Child killed in drive-byA little boy was one of two casualties in a drive-by shooting on River Road, just minutes from LSU's campus, Friday evening. Now, police are trying to piece together what happened in the latest two killings in what's been a record year for homicides in Baton Rouge. Garth Brooks coming to BRIt took just two hours for Tiger Stadium to sell 90,000 tickets to its April 30 Garth Brooks concert. As George Morris reports, that's coming close to the biggest football crowd that packed into the venue this season: 99,000. But at this rate, it looks like Garth may end up topping that. River Center gets a boostAfter suffering a $4 million loss from the lack of events during the pandemic, the River Center in downtown Baton Rouge will get a boost from the feds. The venue plans to spend some of the cash on upgrades that could cut down on utility bills down the line, as Terry Jones explains in this story. Thanks for stopping by! |
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| Nearly 450 students graduated Friday from Southern University and A&M College during Fall Commencement. Read more |
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| Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, incensed by an LSU professor’s tweet calling his assistant a “flunky,” demanded this week that the … Read more |
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| East Baton Rouge Parish erected a 7-foot-high fence to keep LSU students out of a bridge construction zone between Tigerland bars and the L… Read more |
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| A "potentially hazardous" chemical spill in an academic building on LSU's campus Friday was determined to be acetone, the Baton Rouge Fire … Read more |
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| Amazon, the online retail giant that will soon open locations in Carencro and other cities in Louisiana, had employees suffer high rates of… Read more |
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| Though the arrest of a suspect refocused attention on the two October shootings that killed two and injured 10 on Grambling State Universit… Read more |
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| Kentucky businessman Vernon Jackson, a key government witness in the federal government’s prosecution of former U.S. Rep. William Jefferson… Read more |
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| There’s nothing beautiful about a construction site. Read more |
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| When Marcie and Chris Buckle decided to adopt, they wanted an open relationship with the birth parents, who, fortunately, wanted the same t… Read more |
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