BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB)- Police in
Baton Rouge plan to close several downtown streets and restrict parking Monday for
the filming of the History Channel miniseries "Bonnie & Clyde."

The street
closures will be intermittent throughout the day. The filming is scheduled to
be done on Third Street at the intersections of Laurel and Convention streets
from around noon to midnight.

BRPD will
stop traffic while the cameras are rolling. City-parish officials said the
traffic control will happen on various streets from around 2 p.m. until 11 p.m.

Officials
added special effects will include loud simulated gunfire in some of the scenes
during those hours, so no one should be alarmed by the noise. Police will be
working with the production to ensure safety and to monitor traffic control.

Intermittent
Traffic Control:

Around 2
p.m. on the 300 blocks of both N. Third Street and at the intersection of Laurel
and Fourth Street

Around 5
p.m. at the intersection of 100 block of N. Third at North streets and at the
300 block of Convention at Fourth streets

No Parking
Areas:

MELINDA DESLATTE
Associated Press

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - After days of closed-door negotiations, the
Louisiana House has backed a nearly $25 billion budget that deeply
diverges from spending plans recommended by Gov. Bobby Jindal.

Lawmakers objected to Jindal's proposal to use $500 million in
uncertain financing from property sales, legal settlements, fund sweeps
and other items that haven't yet happened and that would only drum up
money for one year.

The House compromise approved Friday would replace those dollars with
money raised from trimming tax break programs, cuts to state agencies
and $200 million expected from a tax amnesty program.

A 93-5 vote sent the budget to the Senate.

The bipartisan plan was a rare showing of independence for lawmakers
who traditionally follow the governor's lead. Jindal opposes pieces of
the package that he considers a tax hike.

(Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This
material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)

Visitation for former LSU Public Relations Director Oscar Richard III will be held Friday, May 10, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Rabenhorst Funeral Home, 825 Government Street in Baton Rouge and 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, May 11, at St. Aloysius Catholic Church with a funeral mass following at 1 p.m.

Richard who was also a member of LSU’s Ole War Skule Hall of Honor and the Manship School’s Hall of Fame, died Tuesday, May 7, at the age of 91.  

In his honor, LSU Interim System President and Chancellor William Jenkins will have the American flag on the Parade Ground flown at half-staff until Saturday at sundown.

The day after his graduation from LSU’s School of Journalism (now the Manship School of Mass Communication) in June 1942, Richard enrolled as an aviation cadet in the U.S. Army Air Corps, was selected as a bombardier and eventually assigned to the 384th Bomb Group of the Eighth Air Force, stationed at Grafton Underwood, England.