The Baton Rouge Police Department may soon have a liaison officer to act as the point person between the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community members and the department while also training fellow officers on LGBT topics.

A Baton Rouge police officer was hospitalized with minor injuries Friday after he was involved in a three-vehicle crash on his way to a reported armed robbery at a Perkins Road business, police spokesman Sgt. L'Jean McKneely said.

An armed man wearing a shirt on his head robbed the Courtyard by Marriott hotel on South Acadian Thruway early Friday morning.

Garland Maxwell barricaded himself inside his Central home overnight, concerned about a big black bear sleeping just feet away.

One person was shot and killed early Thursday morning in a neighborhood off Plank Road that historically has seen a high rate of gun violence and unsolved crime — more than a dozen people killed within a few blocks over the past five years. 

When a Louisiana State Police trooper shot a passenger who ran from a car that had made an illegal U-turn on Perkins Road, it was the second time that shift she fired a weapon.

A multi-agency operation involving local law enforcement agencies and headed up by the FBI raided several massage parlors in East Baton Rouge and Ascension parishes on Wednesday, an FBI spokesman said. 

The State Police trooper who shot and injured a passenger during a traffic stop early Tuesday had fired her taser during another traffic stop in the same area just hours earlier, arrest documents show.

Mike Edmonson, the former longtime State Police superintendent, has been subpoenaed to testify at a hearing this week in which three troopers are challenging the discipline they received for taking an expensive "side trip" to Las Vegas and the Gra…

NAPOLEONVILLE — A nurse has surrendered to the Assumption Parish Sheriff's Office amid claims she had forged prescriptions for drugs, Sheriff Leland Falcon said.

The traffic stop early Tuesday that ended with a Louisiana State Police trooper shooting and injuring one of the vehicle's passengers started with an illegal U-turn, according to an arresting documents. 

A man who was struck by a drunken driver on Florida Boulevard last week has died, Baton Rouge police spokesman Sgt. L'Jean McKneely said Tuesday morning.

A Louisiana State Police trooper shot and injured a passenger in a vehicle that the trooper stopped near an entrance to Village St. George on Tuesday morning, Louisiana State Police spokesman Senior Trooper Bryan Lee said.

Rhonda Broux lost her oldest son 13 years ago. He was 19 years old, a college student with dreams of becoming an architect — gunned down over what his mother described as "a mere fact of jealousy."

A Baton Rouge man was arrested Sunday after he allegedly raped a 15-year-old girl who ultimately bit her attacker and escaped from his car before he could assault her a second time.

A shooting Sunday evening left one person critically injured at a carwash on North Ardenwood, authorities said. 

Heavy police presence and a law enforcement robot could be seen outside the West Baton Rouge Parish Library in Port Allen Saturday afternoon. 

Two men opened fire on a crowd of people in a Donaldsonville neighborhood early Saturday, wounding three of them and damaging several vehicles and a home, Ascension Parish Sheriff's Office Chief Deputy Bobby Webre said.

A security guard shot and killed a man and wounded two others early Saturday after the slain man threatened the guard with a gun outside of a Florida Boulevard hookah lounge, Baton Rouge police spokesman Sgt. L'Jean McKneely said.

An overnight fire at a used car dealership on Airline Highway was found to be arson, according to the Baton Rouge Fire Department.