 BY DOUG GRAHAM | Staff writer Attorneys for the Office of Juvenile Justice and Gov. John Bel Edwards have filed a motion to stay a judge's order calling for the removal of all teens from the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola by Friday. They claim Chief U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick's ruling "will almost certainly result in serious bodily injury to any number of youth, OJJ staff, or even private citizens." The attorneys want a stay of the injunction pending their appeal to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Some families already weary after a month of issues with school bus transportation issues are still waiting for a working solution to their problems. M.E. Cormier said she had been cautiously optimistic that things were finally settling down, but things refuse to return to normal. "My children will be carpooling for the rest of the week,” Cormier said. As with the start of the crisis, families who send their children to popular magnet elementary schools appear to be having it the worst.
A plan to develop a six-story apartment building on North Boulevard is taking its first step with the demolition of a vacant office structure, set to begin in the next month. Developers say the complex, which will have 200 to 240 units, is targeting young professionals who work downtown, along with older LSU and Southern University students. | 
