BY JENNIFER WADSWORTH | Assistant metro editor Casting call for trash haulers Just as Republic Services appears to have started getting its act together, East Baton Rouge said it wants to give other companies a chance to bid on the city-parish trash-hauling contract once it comes up for renewal next year. Paul Cobler has the details. Driver in fatal crash freed from mental facility A Baton Rouge man who rammed his speeding truck into a Greenwell Springs woman's car, believing God had told him to kill himself while hallucinating about the end times, has been freed from the state mental hospital in Jackson and is living at home with his family. Here's Joe Gyan Jr. with the story. Vote to repeal 'Raise the Age' law Leaning on the nationwide crime wave, a state Senate committee on Tuesday advanced legislation to repeal the “Raise the Age law” and send 17-year-olds to adult prisons — even though, as Mark Ballard reports, five of the senators on the panel backed the law when it was passed in 2016. To see what ran in our print edition, click here. | 