The Superdome police officer whose butt was slapped on video by NFL superstar Odell Beckham Jr. after LSU’s national championship victory Monday has decided he does not want to press charges, according to multiple sources with direct knowledge of …
The wreckage of the Hard Rock Hotel will be taken down by an implosion after all — a decision that was reached after contractors and the developers’ insurance company decided a plan to take the precarious remains of the building apart piece by pie…
GONZALES — The continuing expansion of La. 42 and unrelated railroad track improvements are expected to shut major thoroughfares in four locations of Ascension Parish starting 9 a.m. Monday, state highway officials said.
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The passenger volume at Baton Rouge Metro Airport increased by 2.6% in 2019, a slightly smaller increase than what had recently been seen at the facility.
DONALDSONVILLE — The Louisiana Supreme Court on Friday appointed a second temporary replacement for an Assumption Parish judge accused of having an intimate relationship with a top sheriff's official in that parish while also presiding over crimin…
Orleans Parish District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro on Friday urged NFL player Odell Beckham Jr. to surrender to police after an arrest warrant was issued over Beckham's alleged slapping of a Mercedes-Benz Superdome police officer’s rear end followin…
A landmark settlement with an oil and gas company that could potentially unlock big dollars to help restore Louisiana’s disappearing coast has yet to advance, three months after the tentative agreement was announced.
Developer Kevin Nguyen, who owns shopping centers across Baton Rouge, has purchased the former Capital One bank branch on Government Street for $1.1 million and plans to put a “high-end” development on the site.
The six-year fight between the east bank regional levee district and St. Bernard Parish over who should shoulder the financial burden of the parish’s drainage system is apparently headed to the courtroom.
A new film opening in New Orleans this weekend dramatizes the real-life story of a black man’s desperate efforts to free himself from a Deep South prison after he was convicted of killing an 18-year-old white woman.
With the threat of rain looming Saturday, LSU officials are keeping the parade celebrating the football team's national championship win short.
WALKER — Mayor Jimmy Watson announced at the City Council's Jan. 13 meeting that the Stuart & Company GC was the apparent low bidder for the construction of a new city hall.
The East Baton Rouge Metro Council will test its new rules for filling vacancies for the first time Wednesday when it decides from among at least nine candidates to fill a District 12 seat that had been held by Barbara Freiberg, who is now a state…
WASHINGTON — The LSU Tigers continued celebrating their national championship win with a ceremony at the White House with President Donald Trump on Friday punctuated with several joking moments, a recounting of the team's defeat over Clemson and l…
MasteryPrep, a Baton Rouge-based technology company that sells standardized testing software and training material to schools, completed a $2.3 million fundraising round from a group of investors.
Expect significantly cooler weather on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
State environmental regulators must require an oil refinery waste reclamation company in Port Allen to identify the pollutants it wants to dump into the Intracoastal Waterway in West Baton Rouge Parish, a state appeals court ruled.
A cyberattack that crippled statewide agencies in November has further delayed the opening of the downtown River Center Branch Library, an opening stalled for nearly a year after an alleged design flaw caused support beams on the building’s cantil…
East Baton Rouge Parish School Board on Thursday opted to keep President Mike Gaudet and Vice President Tramelle Howard as their leaders, but at least one board member objected, saying it’s time again for a black board president.
WASHINGTON — Louisiana's two U.S. senators have started off the New Year with approval ratings hovering around 50%, according to a new poll out Thursday.
Parking will be restricted on several downtown streets this weekend as the city hosts the 2020 Louisiana Marathon.
LIT Pizza will be opening a second location in Brusly on Jan. 18.
Baton Rouge-based technology startup Bascom Hunter is moving into its new headquarters and out of the Louisiana Technology Park on Florida Boulevard amid an acquisition of an aerospace industry supplier.
Baton Rouge's municipal civil service board, which oversees hiring and promotions for city police and firefighters and which reviews discipline cases, has been temporarily rendered powerless to conduct routine business because it can't reach a quorum.
Perhaps the third time will be the charm for a Baton Rouge cocaine trafficker whose case has been sent back to a federal judge for resentencing -- again.
The Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge hopes to move into a new home by the end of the year, giving the Robert A. Bogan Baton Rouge Fire Museum an opportunity to expand in the building both organization's occupy.
A Gonzales man was sentenced to life in prison Thursday in the 1995 abduction and rape of a Baton Rouge woman who was given a choice to either be raped "or die."
The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly approved a new North American trade agreement Thursday that rewrites the rules of trade with Canada and Mexico — key markets for the United States and for $12.7 billion in exports from Louisiana.
Louisiana endorsed a $14 billion merger that would transfer control of Harrah’s land-based facility in New Orleans, but not before regulators on Thursday criticized the new owner’s neglect of a Baton Rouge property it already owns.
A Baton Rouge man accused of striking and killing another man during a 2017 police chase that reached speeds of nearly 120 mph was charged Thursday with the stiffer crime of manslaughter after he rejected an offer to plead guilty to vehicular homicide.
Addis authorities say they don’t believe foul play led to the death of a man found dead in his home across from the town’s police station, but the West Baton Rouge coroner has classified the case as a homicide and the district attorney’s office sa…
Louisiana's top school board Thursday began the hunt for a successor to state Superintendent of Education John White, the first search of its kind in at least two decades.
Winnings by casinos in the Baton Rouge market were down 5% in December from a year ago, as all three of the city’s riverboats saw a drop in business that followed an overall state trend.
A man was arrested on second-degree murder Thursday after Baton Rouge police matched his DNA profile to blood left behind during a recent shootout.
Advanced Aero Services expects to create 60 jobs in Shreveport at its new aviation maintenance, repair and overhaul facility at the local airport no later than 2021.
WASHINGTON — More than a year after the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement was hashed out, a final version is on its way to President Donald Trump.
A retired Lafourche Parish judge will handle court Friday for embattled Assumption Parish Judge Jessie LeBlanc, three days after authorities conducting a welfare check for worried family members found her driving outside Pensacola, Florida.
A Denham Springs doctor arrested this week on counts of sexual assault has resigned from two state panels he served on at the request of the governor.
CLINTON — The East Feliciana Parish Police Jury will get a "do-over" of a Monday meeting that put the jury's operations into disarray, but some jury officials fear irreparable damage already may have been done.
Addis authorities say they don’t believe foul play led to the death of a man found dead in his home across from the town’s police station, but the West Baton Rouge coroner has classified the case as a homicide and the district attorney’s office sa…
Louisiana's top school board Thursday began the hunt for a successor to state Superintendent of Education John White, the first search of its kind in at least two decades.
Saying it was against building policy, a police officer with the Mercedes-Benz Superdome told LSU football players celebrating their national championship win in the team's locker room Monday to extinguish their victory cigars.
Winnings by casinos in the Baton Rouge market were down 5% in December from a year ago, as all three of the city’s riverboats saw a drop in business that followed an overall state trend.
A man was arrested on second-degree murder Thursday after Baton Rouge police matched his DNA profile to blood left behind during a recent shootout.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Senate opened the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump on Thursday, with House Democrats reading the formal charges in the chamber ahead of the swearing in of all 100 senators as jurors for only the third trial to…
Advanced Aero Services expects to create 60 jobs in Shreveport at its new aviation maintenance, repair and overhaul facility at the local airport no later than 2021.
WASHINGTON — More than a year after the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement was hashed out, a final version is on its way to President Donald Trump.
A retired Lafourche Parish judge will handle court Friday for embattled Assumption Parish Judge Jessie LeBlanc, three days after authorities conducting a welfare check for worried family members found her driving outside Pensacola, Florida.
Video shows Beckham apparently slapping a Superdome officer's buttocks after LSU's championship game.
A Denham Springs doctor arrested this week on counts of sexual assault has resigned from two state panels he served on at the request of the governor.
CLINTON — The East Feliciana Parish Police Jury will get a "do-over" of a Monday meeting that put the jury's operations into disarray, but some jury officials fear irreparable damage already may have been done.