Charge dropped against man in 2011 baseball beating death

BATON ROUGE - Prosecutors have dropped a murder charge against a man accused of beating a woman to death with a baseball bat five years ago.The charge against 52-year-old Timothy Wayne Washington in Sheena Marie Barnett's death was dismissed after a judge refused Tuesday to delay his trial in the long-running case to give prosecutors more time to locate key witnesses.26-year-old Barnett's body was found inside her burning apartment in 2011. Her head was severely beaten, and a bloody bat