Hammond High Magnet School will reopen for classes Wednesday with increased security and a law enforcement presence after threats shuttered the campus for two days in a row, according to the Tangipahoa Parish School System.
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
Officials have made an arrest after Hammond High Magnet School was closed for two days due to social media threats, the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Office said in a news release Tuesday night.
Baton Rouge-based Secure Shredding and Recycling has opened a new service facility in Lake Charles, a region previously served by its Baton Rouge location.
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
A district court judge has ordered another election to be held for the Maringouin's mayor's race after the current mayor claimed her re-election bid was thwarted by a mere 4 votes because 11 people were allowed to vote illegally in last week’s election.
CONVENT — A recount Tuesday found St. James Parish School Board member Dianne Spencer retained her District 5 seat by the same 4-vote margin that emerged in election returns last week, parish officials said.
The Metro Council's attempt to craft guidelines for granting future tax breaks to industry in East Baton Rouge Parish in a bipartisan fashion appear to be crumbling.
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
Gov. John Bel Edwards is striking back at allegations that the former mayor of New Roads voted illegally in last week's election, voicing "very serious concerns" about the interim secretary of state who publicly supported an investigation into the claim.
Firefighters rescued an elderly woman from a fire and severe smoke in a hotel off S. Shewood Forest Boulevard Tuesday morning, said St. George Fire Department spokesman Eldon Ledoux.
GONZALES — Ascension Parish Sheriff Jeff Wiley said he will stand by his commitment not to serve in office while his daughter sits as parish court judge and will step down in early January, retiring after more than 22 years as the parish's chief l…
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
Apartments that are move-in ready, proposed condominiums and a conversion of the historic Hotel Lincoln, which provided lodging for Aretha Franklin, James Brown and B.B. King in its day, are on tap for Baton Rouge's downtown area.
A Baton Rouge Magnet High music teacher and lifelong musician was walking back to her car — after having stopped on an interstate highway in Mississippi to help someone involved in a crash — when she was struck and killed by a logging truck.
MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — Roman Catholic church offices in Alabama and Mississippi will publicly release the names of clergy members accused of sexually abusing minors over decades, church leaders said.
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — There won't be an oyster season on the Alabama coast in the coming year, an unusual move caused by what officials say is a lack of oysters in state waters.
A Greenwell Springs man accused of fatally shooting two Baker men last year and dumping their bodies in St. Helena Parish will stand trial in May.
New Orleans-based Sazerac Co. is paying $550 million to buy 19 liquor brands from Diageo, a wine and spirits company based in Britain.
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
Louisiana's health department may have spent as much as $85 million over 20 months for people enrolled in the Medicaid expansion program who didn't qualify for the government-financed coverage, according to an audit released Tuesday.
Changes are coming to Mid City's popular White Star Market.
CLINTON — The Clinton mayor and recently resigned police chief each pleaded not guilty Tuesday morning to a charge of malfeasance in office, and their attorneys and case investigators noted further charges against the town leaders are possible.
Budget carrier Allegiant will begin offering nonstop seasonal service from New Orleans to Louisville International Airport beginning Feb. 28, the Las Vegas-based company said Tuesday.
A 13-year-old Baton Rouge boy pleaded not guilty Tuesday to second-degree murder and a gun charge in the fatal shooting of a first-grader this month in their Northdale neighborhood.
The Livingston Parish Sheriff said he will "go back to the drawing board" and look for new ways to put a law enforcement officer on every school campus, one week after a school safety tax failed at the ballot box.
Let it snow. Let it snow. Let it snow.
Monday, November 12, 2018
Authorities arrested at least four people suspected of driving while intoxicated in East Baton Rouge Parish and booked them into parish prison between noon Saturday and noon Monday, booking records show.
GONZALES — Political signs funded by a group of Gonzales residents in favor of a hotel-motel tax on the Dec. 8 ballot were going up this week, with fliers to go out in the mail in the near future, Gonzales Mayor Barney Arceneaux said this week.
The state Democratic Party may have endorsed another candidate in last week’s Secretary of State primary, but party leadership this week is reaching out to Gwen Collins-Greenup, who surprised politicos across the state by scoring a spot in the Dec…
An East Baton Rough Sheriff's deputy received minor injuries in a crash Monday evening when another driver failed to yield at an Airline Highway intersection, authorities said.
WASHINGTON — After crisscrossing the country for months trying to prop up fellow Republicans leading to last week’s midterm elections, U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise was off on a whirlwind tour promoting his new book about his survival and recovery from …
ST. FRANCISVILLE — The West Feliciana Parish School Board on Monday appointed Emma Uhle to serve as an interim board member representing District 4.
Whether public school teachers walk off the job in the current school year depends on actions by Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards and the Republican-controlled Legislature, the president of the Louisiana Federation of Teachers said Monday.
For a second year in a row, Ascension Parish government will change its health insurance provider, but this time will return back to its provider from 2017, Humana, for a program expected to generate $5.2 million in annual government and employee …
Hammond High Magnet School will be open on Tuesday after it closed Monday "due to a possible threat on campus," Tangipahoa Parish School System reported in a Facebook post Monday afternoon.
In East Baton Rouge Parish, 72 people have been killed so far in 2018.
A 37-year-old father and truck driver was shot and killed on Barber Street just off College Drive early Monday morning, marking Baton Rouge's seventh homicide thus far in November, which is seeing a rise in deadly violence.
Sunday, November 11, 2018
Heavy rain is on tap, and a continuing cold snap could bring the season's first hard freeze to parts of south Louisiana by Tuesday, forecasters said.
One person was injured in a shooting Sunday night at an apartment complex off Florida Boulevard, authorities said.
A Baton Rouge man arrested Sunday is accused of shooting at someone during an argument near a Florida Boulevard business that occurred within earshot of a Baton Rouge police officer.
One hundred years after the end of World War I — the occasion that gave rise to Veterans Day — people gathered Sunday at events across Louisiana to honor those who fought for the United States in "the war to end all wars" and the soldiers who have…
Saying grace was the only difference from other family gatherings when a couple of dozen members of the Collins-Greenup clan gathered near Clinton on Tuesday to watch election returns.
A one-minute ad touting the need for a new bridge over the Mississippi River started airing on local TV stations last week.
An Oklahoma officer who was acquitted in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man was planning to speak at an upcoming law enforcement conference in Baton Rouge until organizers rescinded her invitation Sunday following backlash from civil right…
If St. George becomes a city and succeeds in creating a separate school district, will students whose parents are St. George residents be allowed to continue attending magnet schools in the East Baton Rouge Parish school district?
People lined up Saturday for BREC's Baton Rouge Zoo's Wild at the Rowe day at Perkins Rowe
Books and authors were the stars Saturday at the Louisiana Book Festival.
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Gulf Coast Energy Outlook event set
Saturday, November 10, 2018
U.S. Sen. John Kennedy is waiting at least a couple more weeks to say whether he will run for governor next year. But on a recent day in Denham Springs, Kennedy sure appeared to be in campaign mode.
Waking up in the early morning of June 14, 2017, Congressman Steve Scalise had no idea he’d soon be facing the most harrowing ordeal of his life. The Jefferson Parish lawmaker — a gregarious and well-liked rising star of the Republican Party — was…