 BY MATTHEW ALBRIGHT | Staff writer Baton Rouge is a car-centric town. Despite the infamous traffic, ridership on public transit is generally low. To try and coax more people onto buses, the Capital Area Transit System is creating a rapid-transit corridor that is supposed to get riders to and from some high-traffic routes more quickly and reliably. Here's how it would work — and how CATS thinks it could help traffic.
You could say William F. Tate IV's freshman year is winding down. The LSU president, appointed last year, has had time to settle in and lay out his vision for what LSU's flagship university should become. We interviewed Tate to get a sense of his biggest priorities, and asked people around campus what they thought of his leadership so far. Here's what they said.
An East Baton Rouge Sheriff's deputy shot a man who was trying to aim a gun at someone, the sheriff's office said Sunday. It started when an argument turned into a gunfight. Here's what we know about the situation. | 
