BAKER — The State of Louisiana sent Baker a letter detailing maintenance and administrative problems with the city’s water system, Mayor Darnell Waites announced Tuesday night.
Tuesday, August 14, 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 Sunday and noon Tuesday, booking records show.
The Capital Area Transit System has proposed eliminating 145 underutilized bus stops as the agency tries to pivot and offer longer hours and and more frequent service along its most popular routes.
Tuesday, August 14, 2018
Louisiana could soon become the first state well on its way to ridding its residents of the nation's most deadly infectious disease, under an unusual proposal that, nearly two years into efforts, appears to be gaining traction.
A judge in East Feliciana ruled Tuesday that alleged serial killer Ryan Sharpe is not competent to stand trial, a decision that will halt criminal proceedings and transfer the 37-year-old from a jail cell to a psychiatric hospital.
Four people were injured in three separate shootings over the course of the day as gun violence rattled neighborhoods across Baton Rouge on Tuesday.
Tuesday, August 14, 2018
The FBI has opened a criminal investigation into the death of a well-known businessman whose health deteriorated during a nearly two-week stay at the Tangipahoa Parish Jail.
A 21-year-old Baton Rouge man with a pending murder charge in the slaying of a gospel singer has been sentenced to 3½ years in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, U.S. Attorney Brandon Fremin said Tuesday.
Medical marijuana in Louisiana likely won't be available until at least November — two months later than initially hoped — after regulatory delays pushed back production for one of the state's growers.
Tuesday, August 14, 2018
Two people were hospitalized after a shooting in a neighborhood off Evangeline Street late Tuesday afternoon — the third shooting of the day in Baton Rouge, authorities said.
The Chili’s Grill & Bar property near the intersection of Interstate 10 and College Drive has been sold for nearly $2.1 million.
The railroad crossing on Bob Pettit Boulevard at Nicholson Drive re-opened Tuesday afternoon after it closed for emergency railroad repairs, Baton Rouge police spokesman Sgt. Don Coppola Jr. said.
Tuesday, August 14, 2018
Police found a man shot on Convention Street on Tuesday afternoon, just blocks away from where a man was shot in the arm hours earlier in the day, Baton Rouge police spokesman Sgt. Don Coppola Jr. said.
A state judge has found a prominent Baton Rouge body shop in violation of the Louisiana Unfair Trade Practices Act and ordered the company to change some of the ways it deals with customers.
The misuse of a village fuel card led to a grand jury indictment Tuesday of French Settlement's police chief, although his attorney said the chief just made a mistake and used the wrong card to fill up his personal pickup truck.
Tuesday, August 14, 2018
The downtown Courtyard by Marriott is expected to open in mid-September before the LSU-Louisiana Tech football game.
DENHAM SPRINGS — The storied site of Denham Springs Elementary School turned the page to a new chapter as a backhoe tore open a flooded campus building at a ceremony to mark the start of the reconstruction effort Tuesday morning.
McDonald’s and its franchisees are pumping $114 million into remodeling 206 restaurants in Louisiana by the end of 2019.
Singer and songwriter John Legend urged Louisianans in a Washington Post editorial to support a constitutional amendment that would require unanimous jury verdicts in felony cases.
By the end of Together Baton Rouge's Tuesday afternoon launch of its Civic Academy Series — aimed at educating participants on relevant social issues and the best way to address them — more than 300 people had been committed to taking part in the …
A person was shot in the arm on Tuesday morning after an argument at a Florida Boulevard gas station, Baton Rouge police spokesman Sgt. Don Coppola Jr. said.
GONZALES – The image stays with Anthony Keating III from that awful night a year and a half ago.
Monday, August 13, 2018
District Attorney Hillar Moore said Tuesday he is looking into a confrontation among an East Baton Rouge Parish School Board member and young adults partying in a south Baton Rouge home to determine whether she should be prosecuted.
Update, 8:30 a.m. Tuesday
CLINTON — A meeting of town officials to discuss apparent budget problems, a mysterious police car lease and other matters ended just as it began Tuesday, with perhaps as many would-be spectators locked out of the town hall as were inside.
Louisiana’s members of Congress are reviewing potential legislation to roll back tariffs on imported newsprint that have hiked operating costs for U.S. newspapers, with both of the state’s U.S. senators expressing alarm over the tariffs to the U.S…
DENHAM SPRINGS — The grass was cut and the headstones straightened when Fred Banks pushed open the gates at Plainview Cemetery on Monday.
GONZALES — If commuter rail service is developed between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, Gonzales wants to be ready.
GONZALES — One month after Ascension Parish President Kenny Matassa was acquitted of bribery, the status of his co-defendant, Olin Berthelot, remains uncertain, at least for another 30 days.
A 40-year-old Gonzales man was sentenced Monday to 10 years in federal prison for his role in a large-scale heroin trafficking network based in Ascension Parish and Houston, U.S. Attorney Brandon Fremin announced.
PBF Energy said it may use part of $291 million it expects to raise in a stock offering to restart a coker at its Chalmette refinery.
A Baton Rouge man arrested Monday morning is accused of breaking into a woman's apartment armed with a gun and raping her.
The body found off Hood Road in Livingston Parish early Friday morning has been identified as a missing Texas man.
An unnamed new player has bought up acreage in Louisiana’s portion of the Austin Chalk formation, as speculation about an onshore drilling resurgence in the play continues.
The arrest Monday afternoon of a 29-year-old Ascension Parish woman ended an hourslong search for the driver of a Lexus believed to have been the vehicle that struck and killed a pedestrian six hours earlier in Prairieville before driving away, ac…
The owner of Slinky’s, a longtime Chimes Street bar that closed earlier this year, plans to open a new lounge on Airline Highway.
Computer modeling that indicated a tremendous amount of rain could fall on the Capital region two years ago this month seemed so out of line with anything that had happened before that forecasters dismissed the numbers rather than heed their warni…
The head of Baton Rouge’s recreation and parks system said Monday she will leave the agency by early 2019, ending a tenure that saw her praised for the expansion of parks and trails and cursed for closing some attractions and trying to move the ci…
Public school districts in East Baton Rouge and Lafayette parishes are among those qualifying for discounts on 142 cleaner-burning buses as part of a court settlement, state officials said Monday.
The Capital Area Transit System has proposed cutting, adding and altering bus routes in an overhaul of Baton Rouge's public transportation network.
Gov. John Bel Edwards joined other Democratic governors in Colorado last week for a discussion on divisive politics and how states can work to unite people.
A week before freshman Phi Delta Theta fraternity pledge Max Gruver drank himself to death during a hazing, another incoming LSU fraternity member became violently ill, vomiting and passing out, during a hazing. Those details — and allegations tha…
Two men were injured in a shooting Sunday evening off Plank Road, said Baton Rouge Police spokesman Sgt. Don Coppola Jr.
Sunday, August 12, 2018
Spencer Hebert spent most of his days at the Foster Car Wash just around the corner from his house, helping people wash their cars and earning a few bucks in the process.
Two males were shot Sunday evening on Cherry Street at North 25th Street in Baton Rouge, authorities say.
A small dog died in a house fire in Central that ignited around noon Sunday, according to the Central Fire Department.
Authorities arrested at least four people suspected of driving while intoxicated in East Baton Rouge Parish and booked them into Parish Prison on Sunday, booking records show.
Three people — including two Baton Rouge police officers — have been hospitalized after a crash Sunday evening involving a school bus and a cop car, authorities said.
A reader posed a number of questions about the East Baton Rouge Council on Aging. So we went to Anita Byrne, a partner with SSA Consultants and a spokeswoman for the agency, and to Advocate reporter Andrea Gallo for some answers.