Blake Paterson
Baton Rouge Advocate
Baton Rouge, LA, United States
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NOPD to patrol 'hot spots' for car burglaries near Caesars Superdome, Smoothie King Arena
The department will use analytics to target "areas near parking lots of concern." → Read More
Pelicans fans return to vandalized cars following Wednesday's game: 'It makes me not want to live here'
Drew Bruzdzinski left the Smoothie King Center in high spirits Wednesday night, after watching the New Orleans Pelicans defeat the Houston Rockets. → Read More
Grand Isle embraces Tarpon Rodeo crowds, even as residents struggle to rebuild after Ida
When Dee Cheramie reflects on Grand Isle’s plight in the 11 months since Hurricane Ida crashed ashore, her eyes almost immediately well with tears. → Read More
Lawmaker shelves proposal that would allow surgical castration of certain sex offenders in Louisiana
A lawmaker on Tuesday shelved a proposal that would have allowed judges in Louisiana to order certain sex offenders undergo surgical castration. → Read More
Will Gov. John Bel Edwards veto Republicans' new voting maps? Here's his deadline, what's next.
Gov. John Bel Edwards has until March 14 to decide whether he'll veto any of the six bills Republicans in the Louisiana Legislature passed to redraw the state's next decade → Read More
On the eve of Louisiana's redistricting session, public gets first look at proposed maps
With less than 24 hours to go until state lawmakers return to Baton Rouge to begin redrawing Louisiana’s political maps for the next decade, the public got their first look → Read More
With COVID surging, Gov. John Bel Edwards plans to skip most of Washington Mardi Gras
Gov. John Bel Edwards flew to the nation's Capitol on Wednesday, but Louisiana politicos shouldn't expect to see him partying it up at Washington Mardi Gras. → Read More
At odds with your insurer? Louisiana updates rules for Hurricane Ida mediation effort after slow start
After receiving a deluge of complaints in Hurricane Ida's aftermath, Louisiana's Department of Insurance launched a voluntary mediation program in October aimed at resolving disputes of up to $50,000 between → Read More
Omicron shows signs of peaking elsewhere. When will it happen in Louisiana?
Coronavirus cases continue on a sky-high trajectory in Louisiana, even as scientists are seeing signs of a plateau in the omicron wave in some parts of the U.S., state officials → Read More
Watch live: With COVID hospitalizations rising, John Bel Edwards addresses omicron surge
With COVID-19 hospitalizations in Louisiana on the rise, Gov. John Bel Edwards will offer an update at 10:30 a.m. Thursday on the state's pandemic response. → Read More
Watch governor live: Louisiana sets record high COVID case increase for second day
Louisiana reported the highest single-day increase in confirmed COVID-19 cases on Thursday, shattering a pandemic record for new infections for the second day in a row, as the highly-contagious omicron → Read More
Live updates: Gov. John Bel Edwards speaks about omicron variant and state's COVID response
As questions swirl over what the newly discovered omicron variant of COVID-19 will mean for the pandemic in Louisiana, Gov. John Bel Edwards is holding a press conference at 11 → Read More
Residents stuck in hurricane-ravaged LaPlace grow increasingly desperate; tiny gains made Wednesday
Aisha Wilson and dozens of other Hurricane Ida survivors sat in the heat outside a strip mall church Tuesday in LaPlace, desperately waiting for a bus out of town. → Read More
A day after Hurricane Ida slams Louisiana, Gov. John Bel Edwards says there are an 'awful lot of unkowns'
Less than 24 hours after Hurricane Ida exited Louisiana, Gov. John Bel Edwards said there remain an "awful lot of unknowns" as the state surveys the catastrophic damage wrought by → Read More
Gov. John Bel Edwards: 'window of time' for Hurricane Ida prep "rapidly closing," hunker down by nightfall
With hours to go before Louisiana begins to feel the effects of Hurricane Ida, Gov. John Bel Edwards urged the public Saturday afternoon to wrap up their preparations and hunker → Read More
Louisiana COVID numbers: 56 more deaths; total hospitalizations decrease slightly
The Louisiana Department of Health reported 2,999 hospitalizations and 56 more confirmed deaths in its noon update Thursday. → Read More
Louisiana awards $100K prizes to these two residents for getting vaccinated against COVID-19
Louisiana doled out two more prizes in its lottery for residents who have chosen to get vaccinated against COVID-19. → Read More
Louisiana's lifetime hunting and fishing license is here to stay. Here's what's changing.
With an overhaul of its licensing structure on the horizon, Louisiana's Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is assuring outdoorsmen that their lifetime hunting and fishing privileges aren't going away. → Read More
Will John Bel Edwards announce a COVID vaccine lottery for Louisiana? Watch, follow live
For weeks Gov. John Bel Edwards has hinted that more perks and incentives could be coming for Louisianans vaccinated against COVID-19. That could include a vaccine lottery. → Read More
Gov. John Bel Edwards targets conservative lawmakers in vetoes to Louisiana's budget bills
Gov. John Bel Edwards scoffed at lawmaker's efforts to reign in his spending powers and killed a handful of pet projects in conservative legislators' districts in a dozen vetoes to → Read More