 BY DOUG GRAHAM | Staff writer After homecoming festivities last weekend, Walker High School students celebrated at a private party with parents in attendance. The DJ shot a short video of Kaylee Timonet and others dancing and posted it to social media. Three days later, the public school's principal stripped Timonet's title as student government president and revoked his help obtaining college scholarships, saying the video was inappropriate, says the teen's mother, Rachel Timonet. The move has ignited outrage and disbelief in the Livingston school district.
The search for Baton Rouge's next police chief has 21 candidates after they passed the civil service exam. The next step: interviewing with Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome. They are seeking to replace Chief Murphy Paul, who announced his resignation from the department last July. He is staying with the department until early November while Broome searches for a replacement.
As the city enters its fifth month of sparse rainfall, nonprofit group Baton Rouge Green continues fighting for the trees. Staff members with the organization, founded in 1987 to maintain and expand the city's green canopy, are filling a portable irrigation tank with 525 gallons of water twice a week and hauling it out to water as many trees as they can — a total of about 250 every week, said Christopher Cooper, director of operations for the group. "We're trying to keep everything living," he said. | 
