A Republican candidate has joined the race for East Baton Rouge Parish Mayor-President.
A well-known former LSU quarterback has decided to try his hand at politics by taking on an incumbent council member.
A Baton Rouge teen accused of threatening to ambush and shoot one or more police officers is back on the streets after spending three days in parish prison and posting a $750 bond, jail records show.
Gonzales Police Chief Sherman Jackson has announced he will seek a fifth term in office this fall.
Blake Joseph Steiner, a married father of six arrested earlier this month in a child pornography case, will be allowed to be released under house arrest, a judge ruled Tuesday.
Dr. Lucius “Tre” Doucet was piloting a plane that he owned when it crashed.
Opponents of plans to incorporate the City of St. George said Tuesday they will ask for a rehearing before the Louisiana Supreme Court.
The Louisiana State Supreme court has denied an appeal by the Louisiana Attorney General’s Office, clearing the way for Melanie Curtin to get a new trial on rape charges.
East Baton Rouge Parish District Attorney Hillar Moore says members of a gang known as “Bleedas” have been indicted for multiple violent crimes, as well as drug and weapons charges.
A Baton Rouge man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for the horrific beating death of his three-month old son.
A judge has granted a $100,000 bond in the case of the man convicted of killing a panhandler in the parking lot of Trader Joe’s in Baton Rouge.
Boyd, who is white, claims he was acting in self-defense when he shot 61-year-old Danny Buckley, a black man. Buckley later died at a hospital.
A nearly all-white jury has been selected to hear the case of a white man who shot and killed an unarmed black panhandler in Baton Rouge.
The man accused of shooting and killing a panhandler in the parking lot of Trader Joe’s in Baton Rouge is heading to trial next week.
Nearly 2,500 Louisiana motorists have received letters in the mail, saying they have been “convicted” and their driver’s license will be suspended unless they get an eye exam.
A combination of single and multi-family homes are part of a new project being proposed along the Mississippi River, just south of L’Auberge Casino in Baton Rouge.
Louisiana State Police have now completed their analysis of previously untested fingerprints left at multiple crime scenes in the decades-old case of River Parishes Serial Killer Daniel Blank.
Governor-Elect Jeff Landry has named a longtime trooper as the new head of Louisiana State Police.
Governor-elect Jeff Landry’s transition team says he will announce “major” Louisiana State Police appointments during a news conference in New Orleans on Wednesday, November 29.
As Governor-elect Jeff Landry prepares to announce a new leader for Louisiana State Police, the names of two longtime troopers continue to surface as strong possibilities for the job.
Louisiana State Police Colonel Lamar Davis has announced he will retire at the beginning of next year.
A vote recount has been requested in the race for Livingston Parish Sheriff that saw incumbent Sheriff Jason Ard win by just 115 votes Saturday.
A large portion of a new training facility for athletes, being built near the LSU campus, has collapsed.
First Solicitor General Liz Baker Murrill has officially announced her candidacy for Louisiana Attorney General.
Five Louisiana law enforcement officers were charged with state crimes Thursday in the deadly 2019 arrest of motorist Ronald Greene.
The attorney for Andrew Brister, the Louisiana Tech student who hit and killed a man on Ben Hur Road last Saturday, said his client did not realize he was the person responsible until the following morning.
An early morning fire at the Marathon Refinery in Garyville injured two workers, a company spokesman said.
An aspiring model from Baton Rouge is back in Louisiana after being hospitalized in Virginia following a crash that killed two of her friends on her 23rd birthday.
A large cross was erected Friday near the spot where LSU student Allie Rice died one week ago.
While a judge ruled organizers of the proposed City of St. George can not break away from Baton Rouge and form their own city, he did hand them one significant victory.
A hand recount was done Thursday, May 5, in the race for judge in the 19th Judicial District Court. The hand recount confirmed those results.
A Livingston Parish judge Tuesday granted a motion to delay the upcoming trial for Dennis Perkins.
A fisherman rescued the man who fell off I-10 East and into Whiskey Bay following a crash on Friday, March 4.
U.S. Attorney Ronald Gathe confirms his office is currently prosecuting six additional cases of alleged fraud in metro Baton Rouge connected to the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).
A 19-year-old has been arrested in connection to a shooting in Prairieville Tuesday, Feb. 8, according to Sheriff Bobby Webre with the Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office (APSO).
The Louisiana Supreme Court has ruled Baton Rouge City Court Judge Johnell Matthews can remain on the bench despite her age.
The Louisiana Supreme Court has appointed two retired judges to fill the seat of a district court judge who died. District Court Judge Christopher Dassau was found dead inside his home on January 16.
The boy’s father, Kyle Robichaux, says he withdrew both of his sons from the school because of the mask policy.
In a sternly worded 92-page opinion, a federal judge has blasted the Baton Rouge Police Department and one of the top lawyers at the parish attorney’s office, saying they retaliated against a lawyer tied to series of negative press reports about the police department.
A nine-year-old has been suspended from a school located on the LSU campus in Baton Rouge after refusing to wear a mask inside his fourth-grade classroom.
A teenager arrested after a chase across East Baton Rouge Parish on Sunday, Jan. 2, now faces eight counts of simple burglary and two counts of theft of a firearm.
An East Baton Rouge Parish man chased a suspected car burglar for more than 20 miles across the parish early Sunday morning.
The property taxes for U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy have more than tripled after a reassessment of his massive home near the LSU campus in Baton Rouge.
Jurors in the aggravated rape and video voyeurism trial of Melanie Curtin watched a nearly 20-minute video of Curtin allegedly taking part in the 2014 sexual assault of an unconscious woman.
A judge has, for the second time, denied bond in the case of a 75-year-old Livingston parish man charged with first-degree rape and sexual battery
Jason Allen Miller, 53, of Covington, is charged with first-degree rape, false imprisonment, and false impersonation of a police officer. Deputies say Miller confessed to the crimes when he was arrested.
Deputies have charged Ascension Parish Councilman Corey Orgeron and one of his law clients with simple battery after the two got into a physical altercation last week, law enforcement records show.
A federal court judge has ordered multiple Louisiana law enforcement agencies to turn over evidence from the case of River Parishes serial killer Daniel Blank so that evidence can be independently tested for DNA.
Both suspects in the death of Nevaeh Allen will remain in jail for now, after a judge Friday afternoon ordered both must stay locked up until new bond hearings can be held on Monday, Oct. 4.
