Four men face charges for an alleged rape that occurred in a vehicle before 19-year-old Madison Brooks of Madisonville left that same vehicle and was struck and killed by a passing vehicle on Burbank Drive in Baton Rouge. Authorities say Brooks was heavily intoxicated when she left with the men from Reggie’s Bar near LSU’s campus. Legal analyst Franz Borghardt…
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The Louisiana Office of Alcohol and Tobacco Control has suspended Reggie’s bar’s liquor license.

There’s talk of a passenger rail line between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, but U-S Bureau of Transportation statistics shows only about 35-thousand Louisiana residents, which is less than one percent of the state’s total population uses some form of public transit to commute to work. Public Affairs Research Council President Steven Procopio says there are a lot of lingering questions about that rail project…
cut 15 (06) “…going to be successful”

According to Entergy Louisiana’s power outage map, four-thousand customers are without power as a result of the strong storms that rolled through south Louisiana yesterday. Three people were injured in Pointe Coupee Parish when a suspected twister turned over mobile homes. The entire city of Plaquemine is without power this morning.

The American Lung Association gave Louisiana 3 F’s, a D, and a C in the state’s 2023 “State of Tobacco Control” report card. Kace Kieschnick spoke with the Senior Director of Advocacy Ashley Lyerly…
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