More Baton Rouge headlines inside
with Kelly P. Kissel | Metro editorGood afternoon. Here's a look at what's making news in Baton Rouge today.
Police shooting We've learned more about a deputy's fatal shooting of a man whose twin brother was being sought on a kidnapping charge. Officers had gone to the man's house, an investigators say he answered the door with a gun in his hand. Here's the latest.
Defense spending The East Baton Rouge Parish judges sued by a colleague over seniority rules have been using public funds to defend themselves. So far, their tab is up to $170,000. The judge who filed the lawsuit wants the state Supreme Court to find out whether the arrangement is legal.
Nursing animals The owner of several Louisiana nursing homes that saw its residents moved to a warehouse in Tangipahoa Parish as Hurricane Ida approached last August is under investigation in Oregon for leaving animals out in bad weather. Law officers out west say as many as 200 head of cattle were stranded in the snow. |
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 | A district court judge in Ascension Parish is offering some juveniles who are awaiting trial — after they've been arrested, charged and rel… Read more |
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 | Baton Rouge law enforcement officers were not looking for Deaughn Willis when they knocked on the door of a Baton Rouge apartment Saturday … Read more |
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 | In Louisiana, Bob Dean achieved the sort of infamy no one wants after Hurricane Ida, when he ordered hundreds of nursing home residents eva… Read more |
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 | A Baton Rouge criminal court judge who is suing 14 of his colleagues and three former judges in an attempt to use his seniority to move to … Read more |
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 | BERLIN — Damage wrought by Hurricane Ida in the U.S. state of Louisiana and the flash floods that hit Europe last summer helped make 2021 o… Read more |
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 | Superintendent Sito Narcisse’s ambitious plan to turn public high schools in Baton Rouge into early colleges — dramatically increasing the … Read more |
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 | After bouncing back from its first loss of the season with a pair of wins over teams ranked ahead of them in the polls, the LSU basketball … Read more |
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 | The Los Angeles Rams did it to the Saints again. Read more |
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