 BY VICKI FERSTEL | Staff writer Loan to state official raises concerns. A new review has raised more questions about a $780,000 loan from a Baton Rouge company to a state official who helped oversee a program designed to plug abandoned oil wells. The loan — used to help Johnny Adams and his wife, Baton Rouge Metro Councilwoman Laurie Adams, buy a house — was one of several financial arrangements that led state government to terminate its agreement with the Louisiana Oilfield Restoration Association earlier this month. Staff writer Patrick Sloan-Turner has been following the issue.
What does it take to be a great athlete? That's the topic Eddie Kennison, er, tackled in his address Monday night to Baton Rouge-area high school athletes honored at The Advocate's 39th annual Star of Stars event. The former LSU football and track star, a 52-year-old Lake Charles native who played 13 seasons in the NFL, had some simple advice: “It’s what you do and how you prepare, when no one is watching.” Staff writer Reed Darcey has all the details on the gala event.
Prosecutors flee Louisiana after jailbreak. Two Orleans Parish attorneys who helped secure recent convictions against an escapee from the Orleans Parish jail have fled the state along with their families, fearing for their safety after last week's jailbreak, District Attorney Jason Williams said Monday. As the manhunt for the remaining six of the 10 escaped prisoners continues, Williams said he also fears for his safety. Williams tried the second-degree murder case against escapee Derrick Groves in October 2024, along with the two other lawyers who left Louisiana over the weekend. Click here for the story by staff writer Joseph Cranney. | 
