A handful of Baton Rouge bars have temporarily reclassified themselves as restaurants, allowing them to continue serving customers while other watering holes remain closed to the public.
After being forced to delay for roughly four months due to the pandemic, a sentencing hearing was held for a man who pleaded guilty to causing a crash that killed a bicyclist.
Jefferson Parish bar owners and their attorneys began making their case Wednesday, Aug. 5 that Gov. John Bel Edwards overstepped his legal boundaries by ordering bars to close and banning gatherings that involve more than 50 people.
Lebanese officials targeted in the investigation of the massive blast that tore through Beirut sought to shift blame for the presence of explosives at the city’s port, and the visiting French president warned Thursday that without serious reforms the country would “continue to sink.”
Since the pandemic began, animal adoption numbers have decreased, causing some shelters to make difficult decisions about the animals for which they provide care. However, Companion Animal Alliance (CAA) is actually saving more animal lives due the increase in fostering.
Investigators with the Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office is asking for help in locating Joseph Rodriguez who is wanted on charges of sexual battery and oral sexual battery.
A federal jury has convicted a man on multiple firearms charges in connection with a bizarre incident that happened at a Baton Rouge Walmart in August of 2019 in which a man armed with scissors and another legally carrying a gun got into an altercation that caused a bit of a panic.
A sort of exhibition baseball game for Baton Rouge-area high schoolers, current college student-athletes, and post-college players to help them stay sharp on the diamond was held at Goldsby Field.
The Pelicans were no match for the Kings in a midday contest on Thursday, August 6. Both teams are now 2.5 games behind Memphis with four games remaining.
The Louisiana Department of Education is supporting students with disabilities through a suite of comprehensive resources developed alongside state and national education leaders. These recently updated resources are serving systems, educators and families during modified operations caused by the CO
Nearly 1.2 million laid-off Americans applied for state unemployment benefits last week, evidence that the coronavirus keeps forcing companies to slash jobs just as a critical $600 weekly federal jobless payment has expired.
With LSU students set to return to campus on August 24, Interim LSU President Tom Galligan and Student Body President Stone Cox, sent out a letter to students on Thursday, August 6, welcoming them back to campus for the fall semester.
Ascension Public Schools has created a Safe Start Procedures and Guidelines document that may be helpful to you in terms of understanding our effort to strictly comply with BESE’s requirements for openings schools.
