Branching out: Peoples Bank opened its newest branch, located at Jefferson Highway and Mourning Dove Drive, on Tuesday. The 6,000-square-foot location has a full array of products and services and will serve as the Baton Rouge headquarters for Peoples, the bank announced today. The facility was designed by Grace Hebert Architects and constructed by Triad Construction Services. Peoples Bank is based in New Roads with locations in New Roads, Baton Rouge, Central and Livonia.
Banished: Twitter announced Thursday it permanently banned Alex Jones and his website Infowars, effectively taking away one of the last few online microphones available to the right-wing provocateur. While other tech companies previously suspended various accounts associated to Jones, Twitter had allowed him to remain on its platform, The Wall Street Journal reports. Twitter said its decision was based on reports of tweets and videos Jones posted in the past 24 hours. Read the full story.
Out of this world: NASA technology designed to protect spacecraft from heat and pressure when entering a planet’s atmosphere will be launched from Spaceport America in New Mexico next week as part of testing. The system will be aboard a suborbital rocket being launched Sept. 12 by UP Aerospace. Once the rocket reaches space, the umbrella-like shield will deploy. If successful, NASA says the shield, made from woven carbon fabric and supported by semi-rigid ribs, would allow exploratory spacecraft larger than the Curiosity rover to successfully land on other planets within the solar system. Read the full story.
