Baton Rouge police continue to look for the person responsible for fatally shooting an employee of Our Lady of the Lake in a parking lot across the street from the hospital. Authorities say the gunman waited for the victim to get off of work to shoot her in what’s described as a domestic incident. President of Our Lady of the Lake, Chuck Spicer, is heartbroken by this terrible act of violence…
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The hospital was placed on lockdown for about 45 minutes after the shooting.
A case of Chronic Wasting Disease has been confirmed in a hunter-harvested white-tailed buck in Catahoula Parish. This is the first confirmed case outside of Tensas Parish since CWD was first detected in Louisiana in 2022. LDWF Deer Wildlife Manager Jonathan Bordelon says this brings the state’s total CWD detections to 36.
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LDWF is currently working to implement the LDWF CWD response plan.
There are three more days left of Early Voting for the March 29th election, which features four constitutional amendments. Secretary of State Joel Watson says turnout is strongest in East Baton Rouge Parish, where voters in the new city of St. George are electing a mayor and city council…
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Watson says early voting numbers for this spring election are ahead of the pace from a spring election that took place four years ago.
Eight Office of Motor Vehicle locations will be open this Saturday to give residents a chance to get their REAL ID. OMV spokesperson Matthew Boudreaux says when May 7th rolls around, you will not be able to use your driver’s license to confirm your identity at the TSA checkpoint unless it’s REAL ID compliant.
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Boudreaux says they will also have certain OMV field offices open on April 12th and May 3rd from 8 AM to 1 PM.