| By Drew Broach | Deputy metro editor
PHYSICIAN DIVERSITY: Xavier University is planning a medical school, Louisiana's fifth and only the fifth in the United States at a historically Black university, in hopes of diversifying the medical field and curbing a physician shortage. The school is researching what it might teach, whom it might hire and how it might pay for the expansion, and talking to local hospitals that might admit its students for clinical rotations. The planning process will take at least three years, Xavier President Reynold Verret said.
PATTERN OF MISCONDUCT: Before he was booked this week on a crack cocaine charge, New Orleans police officer Reginald Koeller III amassed a long and checkered history of misconduct. Civil Service Commission records show the 18-year police veteran was disciplined multiple times in the six years leading up to his arrest on Wednesday, when FBI agents and officers from the police Public Integrity Bureau raided his apartment and discovered more than 100 guns and an ounce of coke.
ALCOHOL POISONING: A Baton Rouge woman wanted to teach her 4-year-old granddaughter not to sneak sips of alcohol. So while the girl's mother watched, the grandmother forced the toddler to finish a bottle of 80-proof whisky, according to police records released in connection with arrests of the two women. The girl died with a blood-alcohol concentration of 0.680, and the women were booked with first-degree murder.
Welcome to what looks to be a gorgeous weekend. Check NOLA.com all day for more news, sports and entertainment. D.B. | 
