Baton Rouge news

• Powerball prize grows to $900 million after no jackpot winner drawn

  16-07-2023 21:11
  
  Another Powerball drawing ended with no winner Saturday night, sending the jackpot soaring to an estimated $900 million.No ticket for Saturday’s drawing matched the winning combination: white balls 2, 9, 43, 55, 57 and red Powerball 18. The jackpot was estimated at $875 million.The top prize is the third biggest Powerball jackpot and the seventh largest in U.S. lottery history, Powerball said in a statement early Sunday.While there was no jackpot winner, Powerball said three tickets t
  
  Read more

• DOTD restricting motorcycles, glass trucks, RVs from using Causeway Bridge during severe weather

  16-07-2023 16:32
  
  LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN - The DOTD said motorcycles, glass trucks and RVs are not permitted to drive along the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway Bridge due to severe weather in the area.The alert was sent just before 4:30 p.m. It is unclear how long the weather event will last in the area. Anyone with questions should call the Traffic Management Center at (225) 379-1232. Permalink| Comments
  
  Read more

• DOTD restricting motorcycles, glass trucks, RVs from crossing Pontchartrain Causeway Bridge during severe weather

  16-07-2023 16:32
  
  LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN - The DOTD said motorcycles, glass trucks and RVs are not permitted to drive along the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway Bridge due to severe weather in the area.The alert was sent just before 4:30 p.m. It is unclear how long the weather event will last in the area. Anyone with questions should call the Traffic Management Center at (225) 379-1232. Permalink| Comments
  
  Read more

• Arrests made in human remains trade tied to Harvard Medical School

  16-07-2023 16:09
  
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — WHAT HAPPENED?Federal investigators discovered a human remains trade with connections to Harvard Medical School and have arrested people in several states. According to prosecutors, the defendants were part of a nationwide network of people who bought and sold remains stolen from the medical school and an Arkansas mortuary. One of those charged, 55-year-old Cedric Lodge, of New Hampshire, allegedly took dissected parts of cadavers that had been donated to Harvar
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Veto session will likely overturn Governor's decision against anti-LGBTQ+ legislation

  16-07-2023 15:52
  
  BATON ROUGE - Louisiana legislators are returning to the Capitol Tuesday for a veto override session.All of the 28 bills Governor John Bel Edwards rejected are back on the table. Among them, three controversial anti-LGBTQ+ bills."Quite honestly most of these bills are solutions in search of a problem, but at the same time many of them are not objectionable to most Louisiana voters," political analysist James Hartman said.The Republican-dominated legislature passed bills that ban transgender med
  
  Read more

• SUPD: Active shooter training starting Monday on Southern University campus will sound like gunfire

  16-07-2023 14:57
  
  BATON ROUGE - An active shooter training in a Southern University dorm on Monday will sound like gunfire, but all the bullets will be blank, authorities say. According to the Southern University Police Department, the training will go on from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. Monday through Wednesday at Jones Hall. SUPD said the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office will be hosting the active shooter training. "Training involves active shooter scenarios with blank gunfire, which includes
  
  Read more

• Daughter of EBR deputy killed in summer of 2016 raising money to donate bullet proof vests to officers

  16-07-2023 14:38
  
  BATON ROUGE - The summer of 2016 is hard to forget for many Baton Rouge residents. Many people in the city lost their homes, some lost family members and loved ones. "It's kind of like a wave of like emotions," said Braley Garafola, daughter of fallen deputy Brad Garafola. "Whether I'm mad or upset, it always brings back everything to that day."On July 17, 2016, six officers were shot in the line of duty when a lone gunman opened fire at a car wash. Four were killed. BRPD officers Mont
  
  Read more

• Slidell Police bust porch pirates, may have prevented robbery

  16-07-2023 12:16
  
  SLIDELL - Slidell Police busted a group of porch pirates and possibly prevented a robbery Saturday afternoon.Around 4 p.m. Saturday, Slidell Police received a call about a group of individuals traveling in a blue BMW, who had just taken some recently delivered packages from a person's porch.A Slidell Police officer spotted the vehicle soon after.The BMW was occupied by three teens from Mississippi and contained multiple stolen packages that had been delivered to several different addresses in t
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

Follow @BatonRougeNews_ on Twitter!