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LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Jeopardy!” is giving itself two answers to the question of who gets to host the quiz show — Mayim Bialik and Ken Jennings. Bialik and Jennings have been serving as rotating hosts since Mike Richards exited the show amid controversy after a short tenure as the late Alex Trebek’s replacement. Executive…

BATON ROUGE – Unpaid bills, failed drug tests, fired executives and buses catching on fire—CATS has had a long list of issues over the past year. “We want to take a look at not just 2022, but all the other that has gone on, and just need to put a stop to this and move…

WBRZ kicked off its annual Stuff the Bus donation drive Wednesday, collecting school supplies to ensure students in the capital area have everything they need. Click here for the list of requested supplies for East Baton Rouge Click here for the list of requested supplies for West Baton Rouge Donations can be dropped of either…

SAN RAFAEL, Calif. (AP) — A Northern California burglar returned to the scene of the crime this weekend after he forgot his keys inside a doughnut company’s corporate office. The thief stole some petty cash from Johnny Doughnuts’ office in the San Francisco Bay Area on Saturday night, police said. In another twist, he also grabbed…

BATON ROUGE – A fire at a vacant home off of Terrace Avenue has been ruled an arson, investigators say. The Baton Rouge Fire Department responded to a duplex on Eddie Robinson Sr. Drive shortly after midnight early Wednesday morning. On the scene, crews found fire coming from under one of the doors and saw…

BATON ROUGE – A man died from his injuries weeks after being beaten on Plank Road.  The Baton Rouge Police Department said Tuesday that Albert Gibson, 60, was involved in a fight with an unknown suspect around 7 p.m. on July 8. He was found at 5151 Plank Road in the parking lot of a…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia will opt out of the International Space Station after 2024 and focus on building its own orbiting outpost, the country’s newly appointed space chief said Tuesday. Yuri Borisov, who was appointed earlier this month to lead the state-controlled space corporation Roscosmos, said during a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin that…

BATON ROUGE – A person was found dead along I-12 Monday morning after being struck by a vehicle. The body was first discovered around 8:15 a.m. along the eastbound side of interstate near the O’Neal Lane exit ramp. The Baton Rouge Police Department said it appeared the person was struck by a vehicle while riding…

BATON ROUGE – Crews have seemingly finished work on a new bridge at the entrance to Tigerland, putting an end to a months-long saga that saw college students trying—and sometimes failing—to cross a precarious pit in order to reach their favorite bars. A Facebook post from popular Tigerland bar Fred’s showed workers putting the finishing…

TOKYO (AP) — Dozens of people have evacuated two towns on Japan’s main southern island of Kyushu where a volcano spewed ash and large rocks into the nighttime sky. Large rocks fell as far as 2.5 kilometers (1.5 miles) from the Sakurajima volcano Sunday night in the southern prefecture of Kagoshima. Footage on Japan’s NHK…

GONZALES – A wreck involving multiple vehicles shut down a portion of Airline Highway Monday morning. The crash was first reported around 9 a.m. on Airline at LA 30. Photos from the crash scene showed a vehicle with significant damage and a large trailer blocking the intersection. The intersection remains closed to eastbound traffic on…

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The chief justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court has won re-election to another 10-year term. Chief Justice John Weimer was automatically reelected when nobody signed up to challenge him by Friday’s qualifying deadline for the Nov. 8 ballot, The Advocate reported. Weimer, 67, a former professor at Nicholls State University,…

METAIRIE – Two people died in separate shootings in Metairie on Saturday, and authorities said they have no suspects or motives at this time.  WWL-TV said the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office responded to North Bengal Road, near Airline Highway, around 2:30 p.m. and found a person inside a car who had been shot. The person…

BATON ROUGE – A firefighter and a civilian were hurt after a kitchen fire started in a home along James Victor Drive on Saturday.  St. George Fire Department said the fire started shortly before 5 p.m. and the damage was contained to the kitchen.  Officials said a civilian and a firefighter were taken to a…

BATON ROUGE – A sheriff’s deputy was injured in a crash on I-12 Friday night after a drunk driver rear-ended his parked patrol vehicle. The East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office said the crash happened around 10:40 p.m. Friday on I-12 East near Sherwood Forest Boulevard at a road construction site. Adrian Jones, 45, was…

LONDON (AP) — The expanding monkeypox outbreak in more than 70 countries is an “extraordinary” situation that qualifies as a global emergency, the World Health Organization chief said Saturday, a declaration that could spur further investment in treating the once-rare disease and worsen the scramble for scarce vaccines. A global emergency is WHO’s highest level…

CENTRAL – Lightning struck a home in Central during a Friday morning storm. The homeowner says there was a loud explosion, and his air-conditioning had to be repaired. “But there is something we can do to protect our property. Lightning rods are designed to protect our homes from the catastrophe of a direct lightning hit,”…

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Two babies were killed when a huge tree crashed into a home during a storm with wind gusts near 50 mph (80 kph) in Alabama, and officials said a third child was killed by a falling tree in Maine. Jalaia Ford, 3 months old, and Journee Jones, 11 months old, were…

LABADIEVILLE – A man previously convicted of sex crimes was arrested this week after he allegedly raped a person with a mental disability. The Assumption Parish Sheriff’s Office said Tyrone Chevers, 54, of Napoleonville was booked on charges related to the assault, which reportedly happened May 25. Deputies said they gathered evidence consistent with rape…

ST. LOUIS (AP) — When questioned by members of Congress, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said its new update to the nation’s flood insurance program will prompt more people to sign up for coverage, even though many will pay more for it. But in a FEMA report obtained by The Associated Press under the Freedom…

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Former Minneapolis police Officer Thomas Lane has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison on a federal civil rights charge for his role in the killing of George Floyd. U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson sentenced Lane on Thursday for his February conviction of depriving Floyd of medical care as…

Two men were indicted Wednesday in the case of a hot, airless tractor-trailer rig found last month with 53 dead or dying migrants in San Antonio, officials said. A federal grand jury in San Antonio indicted Homero Zamorano Jr., 46, and Christian Martinez, 28, both of Pasadena, Texas, on counts of transporting and conspiring to transport migrants…