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• EBR superintendent releases tentative reopening plan for 2020-21 school year

  05-07-2020 21:33 via wbrz.com
  
  EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH -  The superintendent of the East Baton Rouge Parish School system, Warren Drake, released an update related to the school system’s reopening plan for the 2020-21 school year.On Friday, Drake said that while it is too early to commit to a definite scenario, at the moment it seems feasible to consider two options. The first option would be to have students begin attending school on August 6 virtually. Then, should the governmental phase allow f
  
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• L'Auberge Casino expected to layoff over 100 employees

  05-07-2020 17:09 via wbrz.com
  
  BATON ROUGE - According to KATC, L’Auberge Baton Rouge is set to lay off 161 workers.The company has reported this to the Louisiana Workforce Commission, as the state's casinos struggle to rebound from the coronavirus pandemic.L'Auberge also reported it will lay off 441 workers at its Lake Charles location.Casinos across Louisiana will experience numerous layoffs. Here is a list of casinos expected to layoff employees and the number of layoffs: Sam’s Town Hotel &
  
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• EBR District Attorney concerned about high homicide numbers

  05-07-2020 14:51 via wbrz.com
  
  BATON ROUGE – A violent Fourth of July in the capital city added to this year's rise in homicides. Two people were killed and another six were injured in three separate shootings.“We have to find a way to stop this,” said EBR District Attorney Hillar Moore.Moore says the amount of crime going on right now is concerning.“Right now we are around 15 or 16 homic
  
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• TRAFFIC UPDATE: Acadian Thruway exit ramp on I-10 West now open

  05-07-2020 14:43 via wbrz.com
  
  BATON ROUGE -UPDATE: The exit ramp to Acadian Thruway on I-10 West is now open.******************The exit ramp to Acadian Thruway on I-10 West is closed.The ramp has been closed due to high water. Motorists are advised to use an alternate route.The exit ramp from I-10 West to Acadian Thruway is closed due to high water. Motorists are advised to use an alternate route.— Baton Rouge Traffic (@BR_Traffic) July 5, 2020Permalink| Comments
  
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• TRAFFIC: Acadian Thruway exit ramp on I-10 West closed

  05-07-2020 14:43 via wbrz.com
  
  BATON ROUGE - The exit ramp to Acadian Thruway on I-10 West is closed.The ramp has been closed due to high water. Motorists are advised to use an alternate route.The exit ramp from I-10 West to Acadian Thruway is closed due to high water. Motorists are advised to use an alternate route.— Baton Rouge Traffic (@BR_Traffic) July 5, 2020Permalink| Comments
  
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• Firefighters extinguish over 15 trash fires caused by arson overnight

  05-07-2020 14:23 via wbrz.com
  
  BATON ROUGE - Firefighters celebrated their Fourth of July by extinguishing 17 trash fires Saturday night.According to the Baton Rouge Fire Department, fire crews were busy extinguishing several trash and rubbish fires throughout the city on July 4, 2020.Officials say that all the dumpter and trash fires were intentionally set on fire between 6 p.m. and midnight.Baton Rouge Fire Investigators are asking anyone with information about these fires to call 225-354-1419. Those with info can also cal
  
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• 1 of 2 protesters hit by driver on Seattle freeway dies

  05-07-2020 14:07 via wbrz.com
  
  SEATTLE (AP) — One of two people hit by a man who drove his car onto a closed Seattle freeway and into a crowd protesting police brutality has died.Summer Taylor, 24, of Seattle died Saturday evening at Harborview Medical Center, spokesperson Susan Gregg said.Taylor and Diaz Love, 32, of Portland, Oregon, were hit by the car that barreled through a panicked crowd of protesters on Interstate 5 early Saturday morning, officials said.Dawit Kelete of Seattle drove the car around vehicles
  
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• Cosby citing systematic racism as he fights assault conviction

  05-07-2020 13:38 via wbrz.com
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — In a nearly empty Philadelphia courtroom in June 2015, a lawyer for Bill Cosby implored a federal judge to keep the comedian’s testimony in an old sexual battery lawsuit under wraps. It was sensitive. Embarrassing. Private.U.S. District Judge Eduardo Robreno had another word for it.The conduct Cosby detailed in his deposition was “perhaps criminal,” Robreno wrote five years ago Monday, in a momentous decision that released the
  
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• Enhanced crowd audio adds another dimension to fanless games

  05-07-2020 13:35 via wbrz.com
  
  There’s clearly a huge difference between an English Premier League match and one played between friends on a local field. But when you take away 54,000 fans who would otherwise be singing and cheering at Liverpool’s Anfield, both sound the same.That doesn’t seem appropriate to Pierre Moossa, NBC’s coordinating producer for Premier League coverage. He is one of those who have embraced adding crowd noise to telecasts with games being played in empty stadiu
  
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• Facebook groups pivot to attacks on Black Lives Matter

  05-07-2020 13:34 via wbrz.com
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — A loose network of Facebook groups that took root across the country in April to organize protests over coronavirus stay-at-home orders has become a hub of misinformation and conspiracy theories that have pivoted to a variety of new targets. Their latest: Black Lives Matter and the nationwide protests of racial injustice.These groups, which now boast a collective audience of more than 1 million members, are still thriving after most states started lifting virus restrict
  
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• Double shooting in Port Allen leaves one dead

  05-07-2020 13:27 via wbrz.com
  
  PORT ALLEN - One person was killed in a double shooting here Sunday.The shooting happened on the 1700 block of Rev. Manuel Street.  A second person was injured and taken to the hospital.The sheriff's office is investigating but has not released specific information. Permalink| Comments
  
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• Three Livingston Parish libraries close due to an employee testing positive for COVID-19

  05-07-2020 13:10 via wbrz.com
  
  LIVINGSTON - The Main Branch Library in the town of Livingston, is the third library in the parish to re-close because of COVID-19.The library partially re-opened on June 1, 2020."We come here once a week to the library." Mistelle Fisher said
  Fisher is a mother of two and is expecting her third child. Fisher and her kids enjoy living near the library.   " We are able to hop over here, have a little outlet, but now we're kind of back to square one, " Fisher said
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