BREC's Milton J. Womack Fitness Center, 6201 Florida Blvd., will be closed from today to Friday for minor renovations, according to a East Baton Rouge Parish Parks and Recreation news release.

Almost 76 percent of Louisiana drivers and front-seat passengers used seat belts this year, but the usage rate is still far short of the 83 percent who buckle up nationwide, according to a study released Tuesday.

Here's what newspapers throughout the state are offering online readers today: Vanessa C. Deggins / The American Press, via AP Calcasieu parish deputies remove an animal found in a trailer where four dead bodies were found Monday in Lake Charles as members of the Forensic Investigation Unit and Calcasieu Parish Coroner's Office process the scene.

While children at most elementary schools are busy sounding out words and memorizing multiplication tables, the children at Dufrocq Elementary in Baton Rouge faced a more pressing question: Monarchy or democracy? Both systems of governance had their supporters, but school staff simulated what both would look like.

It appears Jeffrey Lee Guillory, Baton Rouge's third accused serial killer, will get to wait a little longer to face the music in Baton Rouge.

John Edgar Browning has been a fan of horror stories since childhood, and the LSU doctoral student is co-author of what he says will be the largest, comprehensive source book on Dracula.

The relaxing atmosphere of the Labor Day weekend was interrupted by a series of shootings.