A new report from 24/7 Wall Street finds New Orleans and Baton Rouge are among the most segregated cities in the nation. Editor-In-Chief Doug McIntyre says they also found black neighborhoods are much poorer than white ones…:
Cut 8 (10) “health outcomes”
He believes segregation is what keeps those kinds of outcomes in place.

East Baton Rouge Parish Constable Reginald Brown says the retirement of BRPD Chief Carl Dabadie is something Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome wanted since taking office in January…:
Cut 14 (10) “stepped down”
Lt. Johnny Dunnam was appointed as interim but is not a candidate for the full time position. Weston Broome says she’s conducting a nationwide search for a new BRPD Chief.

A National Watchdog believes the $100,000 fine against UL-Lafayette to settle complaints about its primate lab isn’t enough…:
Cut 2 (30) “I’m Halen Doughty”

Authorities in the Shreveport area announce the arrest of a man from Baltimore, Maryland dubbed “Public Enemy No. 1.” Several agencies in northwest Louisiana and US Marshals were searching a home for fugitive 18-year-old Cortez Wall who was wanted for murder in Baltimore. After failed attempts to resist and flee, Wall was taken into custody in West Shreveport and booked into the Caddo Correctional Center.