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Inside Baton Rouge's big street racing bust

BY MATTHEW ALBRIGHT | Staff writer​ ​ ​

The word was out: Drag racers and stunt drivers were planning to hit Baton Rouge's streets on Friday. And police showed up in force.

After a game of cat and mouse across several different locations, police finally cornered a bunch of the racers and ended up towing 26 cars and issuing dozens of citations. 

Here's how it all went down, and how it fits into a larger crackdown on stunt driving. 


Elderly Louisianans died and languished in squalor, and the state agency tasked with protecting them missed their cases, a recent audit found. 

The audit raises serious questions about how our state protects vulnerable senior citizens who are not able to protect themselves. Here's what it found. 


If you're a chef in our region, you've got to have high standards. So if a chef picks a place to be pampered, you have to figure that's a good place to check out. 

We asked 12 of them to pick their go-to place for a more-than-ordinary meal. Here's what they told us. 

Elderly people suffered, died as Louisiana officials failed to investigate abuse, audit says

An elderly person was killed even as state officials failed to investigate reports that they were being physically abused. Read more

One parish councilman publicly accused another of sexual harassment. What happens now?

On Thursday, the Livingston Parish Council is set to meet for the first time since one of its members publicly accused another of sexually harassing his stepdaughter — and the two are already gearing… Read more

 
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