The Saints have a new head coach

with Matthew Albright | Assistant metro editor

Good morning! Here are some of our biggest stories from yesterday.

Big Saints news

The Saints have settled on a new head coach, and they didn't have to look far: Defensive coordinator Dennis Allen is taking over the top job. Allen turned the team's defense from a laughingstock to a juggernaut, and has filled in temporarily as head coach for the team before.

Allen has a huge problem on his hands right out of the gate. Star running back Alvin Kamara was arrested in Las Vegas over the weekend on battery counts: We got more details about what police say he did. 

Firefighter stops a stabbing

A Baton Rouge firefighter intervened when a man started stabbing a convenience store employee, police say. He grabbed a gun out of his car and confronted the man, who attempted to wrestle the gun away from him. We got the full story of what happened from arrest records.

The great swamp rat shootout

Mikayla Ball loves animals. After all, she's a veterinary nurse. But she was one of hundreds of hunters who fanned out across the marshes last weekend looking for nutria to kill.

This dispatch from the annual Nutria Rodeo is a hilarious and fascinating tale about an invasive species that is literally chewing up our state's already fragile coastline — and a Louisiana tradition that gets rid of literal tons of them every year.

Thanks for reading, and have a great day!