BRPD Cpl. Betty Smothers honored at Memorial Day track meet

BATON ROUGE - For nearly 50 years, the KY Track Club has been hosting their biggest meet of the year on Memorial Day weekend.Each year, athletes from six to 19 come to run, jump and throw at the Betty Smothers Relays, but it wasn't always called that.The relay is named after fallen Baton Rouge Police Corporal Betty Dunn Smothers, who was killed while on duty in 1993. Smothers was a respected member of the Baton Rouge police force and the community, but it was what she did while off duty that ma