After briefly halting the popular Cash for Clunkers program Thursday night, dealers in Baton Rouge and around the country resumed offering between $3,500 and $4,500 for qualifying trade-ins after the federal government assured them deals made through the weekend will be honored no matter what. [...more]
The search for a missing Baton Rouge man ended early Friday morning when deputies found his body in bushes near the office building where he worked. [...more]
Southern University physics professor Diola Bagayoko speaks out Friday against proposed Southern University System reorganization plans to the Southern Board of Supervisors. Board members rejected the proposal, which can be revised and brought back to the Southern board at the next meeting Aug. 28. [...more]
The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality wants the public to get involved and help the agency catch people or companies suspected of committing environmental crimes. [...more]
Accused $9 billion swindler Robert Allen Stanford has hired a powerful Washington, D.C., law firm with political ties in Louisiana to defend him against criminal charges in Houston. [...more]
The city of New Orleans is asking a federal judge to throw out a lawsuit that accuses police officers of using excessive force on a man whose arrest in the city’s French Quarter after hurricane Katrina was captured on videotape. [...more]
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