 BY MATTHEW ALBRIGHT | Staff writer Vishal Vasanji was a rising star in Baton Rouge. As co-founder and CEO of Relief Telemed, a startup that used a mobile app to connect patients and doctors, he worked with parish government to launch pop-up testing sites in underserved areas and helped set up a site in the Tigerland area near LSU where workers and students could get drive-thru testing. But then he was busted for taking money from the company and using it for a trip to Disneyland, private school tuition and other personal expenses. This week a judge sentenced him to more than two years in prison. Here's the story.
“It’s gotten a lot more nasty and factional." That's how State Rep. Tanner Magee, a Republican from Houma and a prominent legislative leader, describes the way he's seen state politics change. It's part of the reason why he has announced he is not running for re-election. Here's the story on Magee's departure, and what it might say about our state's political future.
Was it a speed trap? The village of Napoleanville hired a private company to enforce speeding laws. But the parish's sheriff objected to the arrangement, saying some the tickets were improperly issued. Here's what happened, and how the town has changed course. | 
