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• Livingston Parish looking to add fee for developers building subdivisions, heading to school board Thursday

  22-05-2023 18:21
  
  LIVINGSTON- Monday afternoon, Livingston Parish School Board held its Budget Committee goals meeting.The main thing on the agenda was to discuss an 'Impact Fee.'"Impact fee is a fee that the developer pays whenever they come in building a subdivision in a district. What it's going to impact: it could impact sewer, it could impact water, it could impact the sheriff, drainage, roads, schools, all that is what usually goes into an impact fee," Cecil Harris, school board president, said.Developers
  
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• Livingston Parish looking to add an impact fee to developers wanting to building subdivisions, heading to school board Thursday

  22-05-2023 18:21
  
  LIVINGSTON- Monday afternoon, Livingston Parish School Board held its Budget Committee goals meeting.The main thing on the agenda was to discuss an 'Impact Fee.'"Impact fee is a fee that the developer pays whenever they come in building a subdivision in a district. What it's going to impact: it could impact sewer, it could impact water, it could impact the sheriff, drainage, roads, schools, all that is what usually goes into an impact fee," Cecil Harris, school board president, said.Developers
  
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• Corruption watchdogs question move giving Council on Aging CEO full access to checkbook

  22-05-2023 16:34
  
  BATON ROUGE - Corruption watchdogs think there are bad optics and ethical questions after the Council on Aging Board voted to allow Tasha Clark Amar to be the only one who signs checks at the agency.On Friday, employees at the East Baton Rouge Council on Aging started ringing alarm bells about this. Two signatures on expenditures are no longer required, and employees said Clark Amar needs more oversight, not less."However you frame it, this is reduced oversight," LSU Law Professor Ken Levy said
  
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• Man shot to death while sitting at red light on Acadian Thruway; latest in rash of deadly BR shootings

  22-05-2023 14:20
  
  BATON ROUGE - Authorities are investigating another deadly shooting in Baton Rouge.The latest shooting was reported around noon Monday on North Acadian Thruway near Gus Young Avenue. A man, 25-year-old Courtney Brown Jr., was shot to death according to the Baton Rouge Police Department. At the scene, police found Brown's car crashed into a utility pole with several bullet holes in the passenger door. Police said he was shot multiple times while sitting at a traffic light.&
  
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• LSU baseball's Skenes and Crews bring home SEC end of year honors

  22-05-2023 14:15
  
  BATON ROUGE - LSU baseball racked up the SEC postseason honors with Dylan Crews taking home SEC Player of the Year honors and Paul Skenes earned SEC Pitcher of the Year honors as the team heads to Hoover for the start of the SEC Tournament.Crews leads the SEC and is ranked seventh nationally with a .423 batting average. He has 14 home runs, 13 doubles and 57 RBI so far this season. Crews is also the league-leader in on base percentage (.573) and runs scored (79), and he has a reached b
  
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• State Police say 'witness' sent gruesome photos to driver after hit-and-run crash

  22-05-2023 13:45
  
  BATON ROUGE - Louisiana State Police are accusing a Baton Rouge man of hit-and-run driving and obstruction of justice, saying that after a car he was riding in struck a man on Siegen Lane and severed an arm, he and two others misled troopers investigating the crash.One person videotaped the man screaming in agony and sent it to the car's driver after he left the scene, an arrest affidavit says.Marcus DePriest McNair Jr., 23, faces accusations of being a principal to hit-and-run driving with a s
  
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• Former Louisiana House Speaker Jimmy Dimos dies at 84

  22-05-2023 13:30
  
  MONROE, La. (AP) — Jimmy Dimos, a former legislator from northeast Louisiana who served a term as Speaker of the House during the administration of former Gov. Buddy Roemer, has died at age 84.Dimos died last week after a short illness, according to Mulhearn Funeral Home.Dimos was an attorney who served as a state district judge in Monroe after leaving the House.He had immigrated to the United States in 1951 at age 12 from Macedonia, part of what was then Yugoslavia. His father had co
  
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• Man tells investigators he set Baton Rouge home on fire because 'he wanted to'

  22-05-2023 13:17
  
  BATON ROUGE - A man was booked for arson after he admitted to setting fire to a home off Highland Road sometime Sunday.The Baton Rouge Fire Department said crews arrived at the house on the corner of East Buchanan Street and Thomas H Delpit Drive to find smoke coming from the front of the building. Investigators later determined someone started the fire on purpose, with witnesses describing a man leaving the area on foot.Investigators located and arrested 43-year-old Raphael Day, who the fire d
  
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• Denver Nuggets knock out Lakers in NBA Western Conference Finals game four

  22-05-2023 12:27
  
  LOS ANGELES - The Denver Nuggets knocked the Los Angeles Lakers from the NBA playoff race with a tight 113-111 game four win on Monday night in Los Angeles.Nuggets big man Nikola Jokic, who averaged near 28 points in the series had a huge game four posting 30 points, 14 rebounds and 13 assists in the win as Denver advances to the NBA Finals for the first time in team history.Denver's Jamal Murray scored 25 points and was pivotal in a last-second defensive stop against the Lakers LeBron James.Ja
  
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• Bill to create crime prevention district around LSU passes through House, could cost business owners thousands

  22-05-2023 12:23
  
  BATON ROUGE - Crime around LSU has state lawmakers ready to take action. Representative Barbara Freiberg has proposed a crime prevention district around the campus after hearing concerns from business owners and others in the area."This bill came to me from residents, from business owners, from LSU officials who are concerned about the rise of crime not only in Baton Rouge but in particular around the LSU area," Freiberg said.After passing through the House unanimously, it is making its way to
  
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• Body found in Mississippi River, washed up near USS Kidd

  22-05-2023 12:08
  
  BATON ROUGE - A body was found Monday evening when it washed up near the USS Kidd on River Road. According to the Baton Rouge Police Department, the body was found around 7:30 p.m. Officers are unsure the gender or age of the deceased person. The cause of death has also not been determined. This is a developing story. Permalink| Comments
  
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• Police investigating shooting along College Drive Monday morning

  22-05-2023 09:46
  
  BATON ROUGE - Police are investigating a shooting along a busy stretch of College Drive on Monday morning. The shooting was reported around 9 a.m. on Aldrich Avenue, just off College Frontage Road. Several BRPD units were spotted staging a scene in the grass median along College Drive, near the I-10 overpass. Sources said one person was hurt, but their condition was unclear. This is a developing story. Permalink| Comments
  
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• EBR schools boss named semi-finalist for Florida superintendent job

  22-05-2023 09:17
  
  BATON ROUGE - East Baton Rouge Schools Superintendent Dr. Sito Narcisse is among the semi-finalists for a job opening at one of the largest school districts in the country.Narcisse was among seven semi-finalists chosen by the Broward County School Board Monday morning to potentially fill its superintendent opening. Narcisse and two other candidates tied for fifth place with four votes a piece. The school board plans to narrow those candidates down to three finalists in the coming weeks
  
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• OMV, other state offices reopen Monday after crippling network failure last week

  22-05-2023 08:52
  
  BATON ROUGE - The Office of Motor Vehicles and other agencies across the state reopened Monday morning after a widespread network outage shuttered them late last week.On Monday, the OMV reopened after being shut down Thursday and Friday due to what was said to be an equipment failure. The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries also announced it was back open as of Monday morning. Several other agencies had already reopened Friday, following the initial outage on Thursday.&n
  
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• OMV, other state offices back open Monday after crippling network failure last week

  22-05-2023 08:52
  
  BATON ROUGE - The Office of Motor Vehicles and other agencies across the state have reopened Monday morning after a widespread network outage shuttered several agencies late last week.On Monday, the OMV reopened after being shut shut down Thursday and Friday due to what was said to be an equipment failure. The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries also announced it was back open as of Monday morning. Several other agencies had already reopened Friday, following the in
  
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• Deadly weekend in Baton Rouge: 3 killed in separate shootings across capital city

  22-05-2023 08:40
  
  BATON ROUGE - Police are investigating a rash of shootings that left three people dead and four others hurt across Baton Rouge over what was roughly a day-long span this weekend. The first shooting was reported shortly before 10:30 p.m. Saturday on Victoria Drive, just off Airline Highway. The person shot showed up at a hospital that night and was alive as of Monday morning. That same evening, around 11 p.m., another person was shot on Scenic Highway near 78th Avenue. That per
  
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• Pair of deadly shootings reported overnight in Baton Rouge

  22-05-2023 07:39
  
  BATON ROUGE - Authorities responded to two separate shootings in Baton Rouge that left two people dead and another person hurt late Sunday night. The first was reported around 10:30 p.m. on Province Place, in a neighborhood off Old Hammond Highway. Authorities said 28-year-old Abel Palomares was found dead at the scene.The second was reported after midnight at an apartment complex at the intersection of West McKinley Street and Alaska Street. Sources said one person was killed and a se
  
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• Sheriff: 9 people hurt after shooting at Thibodaux block party Sunday night

  22-05-2023 07:22
  
  THIBODAUX - At least nine people were hurt after gunfire erupted at a block party in Lafourche Parish late Sunday night. The shooting happened in the Marydale neighborhood in Thibodaux. The Lafourche Parish Sheriff's Office said Monday morning that seven people were shot, and two other women were injured in the stampede as the crowd scattered for cover. No deaths have been reported. This is a developing story. Permalink| Comments
  
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• Sheriff: 7 people hurt in shooting at Thibodaux block party Sunday night

  22-05-2023 07:22
  
  THIBODAUX - At least seven people were hurt after gunfire erupted at a block party in Lafourche Parish late Sunday night. The shooting happened in the Marydale neighborhood in Thibodaux. The Lafourche Parish Sheriff's Office said Monday morning that seven people where injured.No deaths have been reported. This is a developing story. Permalink| Comments
  
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