By KELLY P. KISSEL | Metro editor Baton Rouge's surface streets should expect a lot more traffic in 2024, when the state shuts down lanes on I-10 for a construction project. We take a look at how the city is preparing. There's not enough time to widen existing roads, so here's how the area plans to get over the hump. First it couldn't hold "delinquent girls" in. In the past year, 26 boys have escaped the troubled Bridge City juvenile prison. What does the state do next? Mondo Duplantis has set another world record in the pole vault. At the world championships in Eugene, Oregon, he soared to a height almost equal to three Shaquille O'Neals. |