Today's top headlines.
with Jennifer Wadsworth | Assistant metro editorWelcome back! Here's what we got going on today … Tax returnBaton Rouge parks stand to gain another $3.7 million a year now that BREC reverted its property tax rate back to a pre-pandemic limit. In this story, reporter Paul Cobler explains how that cost breaks down for individual property owners and where the money will go. Stranded for daysA toddler was left stranded for days in a Baton Rouge apartment where his mom died. Rescuers said the 2-year-old boy was hospitalized for dehydration but should recover. A coroner, meanwhile, is trying to figure out what led to the mother's death, which appears to have been from natural causes. Lea Skene has the story. Myth bustersAs Louisiana grapples with another COVID surge, a number of women doctors have teamed up to fight misinformation about the coronavirus vaccine causing infertility and pregnancy complications. Such myths, they say, have kept people from getting inoculated and led to more and more local pregnant women hospitalized for COVID. "They are almost all unvaccinated," one doctor told reporter Andrea Gallo. Click here to read her story. As always, thanks for reading! |
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| With the highly contagious delta variant ripping through Louisiana and overwhelming hospitals statewide, Gov. John Bel Edwards urged the pu… Read more |
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| East Baton Rouge’s parks and recreation system will bring its property tax rates back up to pre-pandemic levels. Read more |
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| A toddler stranded in a North Boulevard apartment for several days after his mom died was rescued Friday morning and hospitalized for dehyd… Read more |
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| A plantation-era Louisiana mansion spanning 7,400 square feet with five bedrooms and 4½ baths is up for auction again in Ascension Parish. Read more |
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| Juban’s Creole Restaurant is set to reopen late this year or early 2022, after being closed since July 2020 because of the COVID pandemic. Read more |
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| LSU put out a brief but impactful message on social media Friday regarding the football team’s coronavirus vaccination rate. Read more |
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| Another little alien is coming to Earth, and he's just as lovable as Steven Spielberg's E.T. Read more |
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| A group of Louisiana female physicians said Friday that misinformation is incorrectly linking coronavirus vaccines with infertility and bad… Read more |
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| Though the final decision hasn’t been made by the newly installed leadership at LSU, students returning to campus in a few weeks probably w… Read more |
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