 By KELLY P. KISSEL | Metro editor Another Baton Rouge restaurant has closed. The Velvet Cactus announced on social media that the pandemic has done it in. Prices for goods have gone up, so despite a loyal clientele the owners will concentrate on other business. Check out our list of restaurants that have opened and closed in 2022, too.
The weather should be halfway decent for New Year's Eve, but to get there we will have to go though some storms on Friday. The Storm Prediction Center says things could be fairly rough, but not horrible. We break down the timing for various parts of south Louisiana here.
A doctor who operated a clinic at Central has admitting cheating the Medicare system. He'll be sentenced in March. See what he did. | 
