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New CEO assesses role organization plays in today’s education landscape. When Teach For America launched 36 years ago, one of its pilot sites was Scotlandville High School in Baton Rouge, La., where I happened to teach. So, I’ve observed TFA from its earliest days and been a sometime-friend and sometime-critic over the

The ouster of the management of Impact Charter School in Baker in February 2025 prompted a bevy of civil lawsuits. The ugly legal fight entered criminal court last week when a federal grand jury indicted the founder of the school and family members for alleged theft and money laundering. It...

BATON ROUGE — Restaurant Week is back in Baton Rouge this week!. The summer edition of the twice-annual culinary event invites restaurant-goers to enjoy fixed menus at some of Baton Rouge's best restaurants. Most of the restaurants featured during the event, which runs from Monday, July 20, through Saturday,...

JA’KORI MADISON – The Advocate, Baton Rouge, La. More than a dozen first responders were honored Wednesday after working together to save the life of a 70-year-old woman who suffered cardiac arrest during Festival International de Louisiane and left the hospital three days later with no neurological deficits.

Iberville Parish Government Chief Administrative Officer Dwayne Boudreaux resigned from his post and will return to his previous line of work. Boudreaux stepped down to return to St. John High School, where he will work as a teacher and return as head coach of the Lady Eagle volleyball team. “I’m...

BATON ROUGE — Two people were displaced after a fire overtook multiple buildings along Maximillian and Myrtle streets early Monday morning. According to the Baton Rouge Fire Department, firefighters arrived along Maximillian Street around 3:05 a.m. to find two vacant houses consumed by flames. While crews fought these

BATON ROUGE — A federal jury unanimously convicted two Capital area men of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, among other charges, after a three-day trial. According to federal prosecutors, 60-year-old Calvin Kemp from Gonzales and 33-year-old Chevez Robillard from Baton Rouge were both found guilty of conspiring to comm

DENHAM SPRINGS, La. (WAFB) - Deputies are investigating a shooting that left one person dead at an apartment complex in Denham Springs on Monday morning, July 20. According to the Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office, deputies were dispatched around 5 a.m. to Parc at Denham Springs off Highway 16 for multiple gunshots.

“Used to be, the saying was, ‘Where goes New Orleans, where goes the state,'” Gov. Jeff Landry told reporters this month. “That has changed.”  If New Orleans’ standing has fallen, it fell on his watch. A governor dismissing his own state’s largest city is not a burn. It is a confession. And the audience is […]

DENHAM SPRINGS — An 11-year-old girl from Denham Springs battling a rare brain tumor has had to move to Ohio with her family after Louisiana Medicaid would not cover key parts of her out-of-state treatment. WBRZ first shared Katie Tanton's story in April. She has been traveling between Louisiana...