Fruit-pickers needed; other top headlines
with Kelly P. Kissel | Metro editorWe appreciate your starting your week with us. Here's a look at the top stories in the Baton Rouge area today. LSU's still looking: The Tigers ended their regular season Saturday night, and Ed Orgeron walked off into the sunset (or make that sunrise, since he was heading to Destin). Florida and Southern Cal ended the weekend with new head coaches, but LSU is still in search mode. Scott Rabalais takes a look at a process he calls "unsettled." Fruit for the food bank: Volunteers from Baton Rouge Green will harvest fruit that thousands of homeowners have no realistic chance of eating in its City Citrus event on Saturday, Dec. 11. We have details here. Another death on a bicycle: For the third time in November, a bicyclist was killed in a crash along a major Baton Rouge street. Details about the latest crash are here, and a look at the previous two is here. Keep checking in throughout the day for the latest, and we'll cut in to regular programming once the white smoke rises with the selection of a new LSU football coach. |
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| A Houston man was arrested Saturday after he slapped a 14-year-old boy in the face during a game at Tiger Stadium, Louisiana State Police s… Read more |
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| The first night after he was released from prison, Michael Blanton found himself sleeping in the back of an unlocked school bus, unsure of … Read more |
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| Countries across the globe suspended incoming flights after scientists in South Africa last week identified the new version. Read more |
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| Lincoln Riley slipped out of the Oklahoma job, emphatically saying he wasn’t leaving to be LSU’s next coach but without anyone asking him a… Read more |
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| Southern Univerisity's Human Jukebox marching band is sweeping the internet — again — with a performance of Adele's "Easy on Me." Read more |
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| Detention facilities in Louisiana that lost population and funding under Gov. John Bel Edwards criminal justice reform measures have benefi… Read more |
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| East Baton Rouge Parish is set to spend almost $400,000 to create a new division tasked with giving more government contracts to minority-o… Read more |
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| The Bob Pettit Boulevard Bridge, a major link between Tigerland and the LSU campus, will close Monday and remain shut down for months as th… Read more |
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| Thousands of homeowners in our area have highly productive fruit trees that yield more fruit than they can consume. That's why Baton Rouge … Read more |
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