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1. Clinical trial tests new breast cancer drug as alternative to chemo (wafb.com) — A Baton Rouge clinical trial at Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center is testing a newer antibody drug conjugate for women whose hormone-positive breast cancer has stopped responding to hormone therapy. Local patients may qualify to receive this IV treatment every three weeks as an alternative to traditional chemo, with enrollment scheduled to close in mid-October. Doctors stress that participants still receive full standard care alongside the study drug.
2. Baton Rouge police to move Second District headquarters to downtown Baton Rouge (louisianafirstnews.com) — Baton Rouge police are moving their Second District headquarters from Highland Road to 200 Third Street downtown under a newly approved 10-year sublease. Leaders say the shift is driven by space needs, not downtown crime, and officers will keep patrolling their current zones. The Highland Road building will likely be repurposed for other police divisions after renovations downtown are complete.
3. LSU Title IX Case: What Police Knew—and When (tigerrag.com) — LSU's handling of a sexual assault allegation involving football player Damien Shanklin is under renewed scrutiny as questions mount about what Baton Rouge-area law enforcement actually received from campus police and Title IX investigators. The column compares LSU's information handoff to a high-profile Cornell case and highlights gaps in what East Baton Rouge prosecutors knew before opening a criminal review in September. It stresses that administrative findings differ from criminal charges and that key records have not yet been made public.
4. LSU Athlete's Attorney Breaks Silence as Criminal Investigation Into Alleged Assault Case Continues (essentiallysports.com) — An LSU football player's attorneys are publicly asserting his innocence as East Baton Rouge Parish prosecutors investigate an alleged sexual assault that began with a campus police call and later moved into LSU's Title IX system. The case, which includes a reduced campus sanction, a delayed referral to Title IX, and a TikTok campaign by student Kendall Francis, now has Baton Rouge police and the district attorney gathering records while the player remains off the field. No criminal charges have been filed so far.
5. $1b Comite River Diversion Canal north of Baton Rouge, LA (blogspot.com) — Work is advancing on the long-delayed Comite River Diversion Canal north of Baton Rouge, with major foundation piles and concrete now in place for the key control structure. The 12-mile channel will divert floodwaters toward the Mississippi River and includes improvements along Bayou Baton Rouge and nearby bayous. All contracts are finally awarded, with completion targeted for late second quarter 2028.
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