Acadiana Advocate

2 days ago | theadvocate.com | Robin Fambrough

Best-of-three series Games 1At McMurry Park-SulphurNo. 4 Catholic-NI (24-11) vs. No. 2 University (27-9)GAME TIME: 11:30 a.m. Field 40WHAT TO KNOW: This is the final season of a 34-year coaching career for CHSNI’s David Jordan. The Panthers are led by P-1B Lane Fenske, UTL JD Hidalgo, OF Jack Romero. U-High won the first baseball title in school history last spring. Former assistant Jon Ramsey is the Cubs first-year head coach.

2 days ago | theadvocate.com | Robin Fambrough

Baseball coaches have been asking for it and now they’re really going to get it. A new era of LHSAA baseball begins Thursday best-of-three finals series at McMurry Park in Sulphur. Four Baton Rouge area teams are part of the latest baseball transition. The format is correctly lauded as the best way to determine the top teams in the top three select/nonselect divisions. It will be interesting to see what this format looks like in real time.

2 days ago | theadvocate.com | Timothy Boone

Cornerstone Chemical Company said it is shutting down one of the units at its Waggaman manufacturing facility, a move that will put 116 employees out of work. In a letter it sent to the Louisiana Workforce Commission on May 5, the company said it will mothball the acrylonitrile unit on July 31, and that 71 hourly plant workers will be laid off by Dec. 31. The layoffs will occur in three batches between July 31 and the end of the year.

2 days ago | theadvocate.com | Charles Lussier

A pre-K student spent several hours Monday trapped on a Baton Rouge school bus, long after he was supposed to be in school, leading to the dismissal of the driver. In a statement, Terry Robinson, a spokesman for the East Baton Rouge Parish school system, said the child was found safe and returned to his family, but the driver “is no longer employed by the school system." The student attends Delmont Pre-K Center at 5300 Douglas Ave., home to about 130 pre-K students.

2 days ago | theadvocate.com | Lauren Cheramie

Teen country singer John Foster is one step closer to winning season 23 of "American Idol." But first: a welcome home parade in his hometown of Addis. The parade in Foster's honor is slated to start at 5 p.m. Wednesday, along First Street in Addis and end with a concert on the waterfront in Plaquemine at 7:30 p.m. Organizers are encouraging residents to arrive early for both the parade and concert.