It can’t hurt to ask….National Championship LSU Lady Tigers basketball coach Kim Mulkey calls for a newly-built, or majorly refit, basketball arena.  She made the ask (slash) demand while speaking to the Baton Rouge Rotary Club…:

CUT 06(12)      “…dangerous in there.”

The Pete Maravich Assembly Center is over 50 years old and hasn’t had any major renovations since 2009.

At the State Capitol, a Senate committee advances a bill requiring many petrochemical plants to have or install air quality monitoring systems and save that data. Here’s bill sponsor and Baton Rouge Senator Cleo Fields…:

CUT 12(12)      “…be warned.”

With only one “no” vote, the bill moves to the Senate floor. The legislature will conclude this year’s business in early June.

The murder of a six-year-old girl, whose body was found in a bucket shocks the small town of Harahan. Brooker Thorington reports…:

CUT 01(33)      “…Thorington.”

An employee at a McDonald’s in Kenner has been arrested for allegedly threatening a customer with a gun. The customer says she argued over an order with 21-year-old Troy Washington, who lifted his shirt and showed her a pistol in his waistband; moving to draw it. She called the cops and he was arrested a short time later for assault and possession of cannabis.