 BY MATTHEW ALBRIGHT | Staff writer The brawl ended two teams' seasons. Zachary High and Liberty High's basketball teams, both of which had legit championship aspirations, have been banned from the playoffs after a fight that became instantly infamous on social media. Robin Fambrough, our longtime high school sportswriter, explains how the punishment might have consequences for more than just the players on those two teams.
About 3,600 Baton Rouge students don't speak English as their native language — about 9% of all public school students. It's a number that has grown rapidly over the years, particularly at some individual schools. A recent audit has found serious problems with how the school district is educating those students. Here are the concerns it raised, and what school leaders say they're doing to address them.
COVID changed a lot about our lives, and for many people it changed the way we ate. That's a big deal for a company like Blue Runner Foods, the Gonzales-based maker of canned beans and gumbo. Blue Runner had big plans to launch a new line of frozen foods, but its research showed more people were eating prepared meals from places like supermarket delis. So it pivoted. Here's what they did, and what it says about the way we eat. | 
