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with Jennifer Wadsworth | Assistant metro editor

Here are some of our top headlines from today.


Need a steamroller?

Have you been itching to buy a pothole patcher? A steamroller? Or maybe a used ambulance?

Those, and plenty more vehicles from the East Baton Rouge city-parish fleet are up for auction. 

Terry Jones has the details. 


John Mack indicted

A grand jury charged Independence resident John Mack on eight different counts in a sweeping child sex abuse case from which the local district attorney has recused himself due to potential conflicts from the defendant’s political connections. Jacqueline DeRobertis breaks it all down in this story.


Zion City gang case

Two alleged members of a violent Baton Rouge drug gang were indicted Wednesday on murder and attempted murder in an August double shooting in Zion City, as Joe Gyan Jr. reports. 


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Today's top stories

Want to buy a pothole patcher or a steamroller? Baton Rouge is auctioning some off to the public.

Have you been itching to buy one those pothole patchers used on Baton Rouge streets? What about a steamroller? Or maybe a used ambulance tr… Read more

Kirby Smith Hall will be imploded in June, LSU says — for real, this time

Kirby Smith Hall, the notorious LSU dorm that looms over campus, will finally be imploded in June 2022 and will be replaced with a green sp… Read more

After Lit Yoshi's DNA found on guns in Florida home, lawyers drop effort to free rapper

Detectives have linked shootings to a feud between the rival NBA (Never Broke Again) and TBG (Top Boy Gorilla) record labels, groups that authorities also have described as gangs. Read more

 
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John Mack indicted on 8 counts in Livingston Parish child sex abuse investigation

A Livingston Parish grand jury charged an Independence man on eight different counts in a sweeping child sex abuse case from which the loca… Read more

Zion City gang members indicted in August shooting death

Two alleged members of a violent Baton Rouge drug gang were indicted Wednesday on murder and attempted murder in an August double shooting … Read more

A judge tossed 2021’s only Gulf of Mexico lease sale. This oil and gas group aims to revive it.

The American Petroleum Institute has appealed a federal judge’s ruling that threw out the results of the lone Gulf of Mexico lease sale in … Read more

 
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See how work is progressing on a Perkins Overpass ice cream parlor

Gail's Fine Ice Cream is set to open a Baton Rouge location in mid-March near the Perkins Road Overpass. About 10 people will work at the i… Read more

Gary Chambers burns Confederate flag in new ad for campaign against Sen. John Kennedy

Gary Chambers Jr. burns a Confederate flag in a new provocative ad in his uphill campaign to unseat U.S. Sen. John Kennedy. Read more

'Emergency!' stars eye Baton Rouge EMS for upcoming documentary about paramedics

Two actors who popularized ambulance work in a 1970s television show are behind an effort to embed film crews with East Baton Rouge Emergen… Read more