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A recent drug bust at a small Baton Rouge church is the latest in a series of arrests by authorities in a fight against an opioid epidemic that continues to take lives. Criminal Justice reporter for the Advocate, James Finn, tells us more about the rise in crime and growing opioid crisis in Baton Rouge. 

Tulane University recently signed a memorandum of understanding with Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute in Ukraine to collaborate on solar energy research. And even when the research labs in Ukraine were reduced to rubble, that hasn’t stopped the collaboration between universities. 

Denys Bondar, assistant professor in the Tulane Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, and Kseniia Minakova, an associate professor of physics at Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute, tell us more about how this partnership has strengthened during the war.

Later this week, Festivals Acadiens et Créoles kicks off in Lafayette. But this biannual celebration of Cajun music and culture is far from the only festival of its kind. In late September, WWNO’s Alana Schreiber traveled to Lakeview Park and Beach in Eunice, Louisiana to attend Le Grand Hoorah. She brought back this story on the more intimate cultural celebration and hog roast. 

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