36 ICU beds available in the "stressed" Baton Rouge health region Administrators say Baton Rouge hospitals running out of ICU nurses By Matt Houston | July 17, 2020 at 6:03 PM CDT - Updated July 17 at 9:50 PM BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Officials at two Baton Rouge hospitals say a recent spike in…
A video of Baton Rouge activist Gary Chambers Jr. giving an impassioned speech in support of changing the name of a high school named for Robert E. Lee and calling out a school board member who was shopping online has gone viral.Chambers, who appeared on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Monday to discuss the video, attended…
BATON ROUGE- Several bars in Tigerland closed after over 100 COVID-19 cases were reported among staff and patrons this past weekend, according to the Department of Health. Since this announcement on Friday, more and more businesses are following suit. At least three bars near the LSU campus have employees who have tested positive for the…
Police in Baton Rouge, La., revealed grisly details Monday of a shooting standoff in which the suspected gunman ambushed two officers sent to interview him about a killing hours earlier, then allegedly stood over a dead officer’s body while continuing to shoot him at point-blank range.Ronnie DeWayne Kato Jr., 36, engaged in a four-hour standoff with officers and…
New York Daily News | Apr 26, 2020 | 7:02 PM Baton Rouge Police Department officers gather at the site of a shooting in Baton Rouge, La., Sunday, April 26.(STAFF PHOTO BY TRAVIS SPRADLING/AP) A Baton Rouge, Louisiana police officer is dead and another fighting for his life in a hospital after a man wanted…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…