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'Doesn't need to take two people': BREC Superintendent discusses workforce cuts (opens the original)
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BATON ROUGE - BREC Superintendent Janet Simmons says more outsourcing of jobs could be coming to the organization. Last week, BREC announced a 10-percent workforce cut. BREC leaders at the start of the cut said the organization had 825 employees. Simmons said the total number of people cut looks to be around 90 people and the cuts initially began in June. At the same time, BREC placed a hiring freeze, halting the hiring of what Simmons called "non-critical" employees. "Critical jobs are people w
Possible human remains recovered from Monte Sano BREC Park; sent to LSU FACES Lab for analysis (opens the original)
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BATON ROUGE — A possible skull was found at the Monte Sano BREC Park on Greenwell Street, the East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner's Office said Wednesday. No other suspected remains were found during a search of the park. Baton Rouge Police said they were called to investigate the possible remains at 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday. The possible human remains will be turned over to the LSU FACES Lab for further analysis, the coroner's office added. Residents living in the area said they were shocked to learn s
'My child didn't have a fair chance at life:' Four teens killed over the last five days (opens the original)
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BATON ROUGE - The family of 19-year-old Jerrod Jermaine Dorsey thought they would soon be gathering for a wedding, not a funeral. He had recently proposed to his girlfriend. "It's going to be hard for me because I can't see a life without him," his fiancée Roberny Vargas said. His mother Reba Dorsey said Jerrod went to a house party on Maverick Avenue in the early hours of Sunday when he was struck by gunfire. "[It] wasn't intended for him, this I can tell you for sure. I know this could never h
City-Parish leaders, community advocates address string of shootings (opens the original)
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BATON ROUGE - A week since EBR Mayor-President Sid Edwards' State of the City address where he praised the city-parish's drop in crime, seven are dead and seven more injured in a string of shootings. On Tuesday, Edwards announced a new initiative with National Network for Safe Communities went into effect that day. Edwards said the organization is a crime intelligence group which will look at arrest data, shooting locations and other data to track who is committing unlawful acts. "They're identi
'The truth has to be said:' State Democratic Party leader responds to alleged racist remarks (opens the original)
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BATON ROUGE - One Louisiana Democratic Party leader responded on Monday to remarks he says a Republican senator made at the last congressional redistricting map hearing. Last Friday, tensions ran high in one Senate committee room. Lawmakers addressed Sen. Jay Morris and his proposed redistricting maps. At the end of his testimony, Sen. Morris told the audience behind him, "You all need to shut up." Sen. Morris confirmed this himself in a statement released last Friday, adding that his comment ca
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