It’ll be a quiet Memorial Day weekend around Tiger Stadium as Bayou Country Superfest won’t be happening in 2020. Festival organizers have announced the annual holiday weekend event will be on hiatus until further notice. President and CEO of Visit Baton Rouge Paul Arrigo says looking back, it was a great event for the city.
The festival had a decade-long run, starting at Tiger Stadium, did two years in the Superdome, and then returned to Baton Rouge in 2019.
A Calhoun man is in jail on a drug charge after he approached two people asking to borrow guns at a Planet Fitness parking lot in West Monroe. West Monroe Police Major David May says the two declined the request of 19-year-old Landon Duke before going into the gym and calling the police. Cops later located the man and May says Duke caught the drug charge when he consented to a search.
Cut 14 (10) “…money contained methamphetamine.”
The Louisiana Department of Health reports a third person has died in Louisiana from complications related to vaping, while the total number of vaping-related cases has risen to 35. Office of Public Health Assistant Secretary Alex Billioux says these cases are being linked back to Vitamin E Acetate, which is used as a thickener in E-cigs.
Of the 35 cases, 17 appear to be THC related.
You can now view 5 years of financial disclosures for all 298 judges in the state of Louisiana at the New Orleans Metropolitan Crime Commission’s website. Previously the only way you could get that kind of information was by filing a public records request. MCC President Rafael Goyeneche says judges are the only elected officials who have that privilege in Louisiana.