The former West Pensacola dive bar, Gene’s Lounge at 3810 W. Navy Blvd., is now unrecognizable after business owner Reddy Kandala’s transformed it into the swanky new sports bar, Whiskey Barrel.

Leaders of the Ashtalakshmi Temple in Sugar Land are considering hiring security and installing cameras after members of a Humble church protested a 90-foot statue of the deity Hanuman.