After barely three years in operation, citing declining enrollment, IDEA University Prep charter school, located on Plank Road, is closing soon and directing its students and staff instead to two other schools in Baton Rouge run by the same charter group.
A Black woman's employment discrimination lawsuit against an LSU sorority has been tossed out of federal court after a judge ruled the sorority was not the plaintiff's employer when she worked as the house's head chef.
The USS Kidd officially began moving away from its dock in Baton Rouge at about 10 a.m. Thursday, pulled by multiple tugboats as it heads downriver.