Live más: Yum Brands hopes to use artificial intelligence to take drive-thru orders at hundreds of Taco Bell restaurants by the end of this year. The restaurant company announced on Wednesday that it is expanding its rollout of the tech in the U.S. as it eyes implementing it in drive-thru lanes globally. Read more from CNBC.
Contested: Several Baton Rouge residents have filed lawsuits asking 19th Judicial District judges to disqualify candidates in various East Baton Rouge Parish races over tax concerns and residency issues. Separately, a Baton Rouge judge on Tuesday declined to expel two of the three candidates for Louisiana Supreme Court justice running in District 2 after a lawsuit sought to disqualify them over similar challenges. Read more from WAFB-TV.
‘You don’t even go here’: Port Allen’s city administrator cannot run for mayor because of a property tax break he enjoys on a Plaquemine home he owns with his wife, a judge ruled Wednesday. District Judge Tonya S. Lurry ordered Lance Joseph’s name stricken from the Nov. 5 ballot. Two others remain in the race. State law requires mayors to be residents of the cities they run, and that they have established residency for at least a year. Read more from WBRZ-TV.
