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Jeremy Gautreaux was due Sunday afternoon at Beaver Creek golf course. A local amateur golfer who has finished second to Greg Berthelot in a handful of BREC tournaments, Gautreaux put together a bogey-free round of 7-under 65 to pass up Berthelot and win his first Baton Rouge Open. Gautreaux began...

Ascension Parish Government will temporarily close Moody Dixon Road on Monday, June 29, for a cross-drain replacement and improvement project. Work is scheduled to begin at 8:00 AM and is expected to be completed the same day. This project will improve drainage infrastructure and help ensure the continued reliability o

Baton Rouge resident Gary Chambers readily admits he was a reluctant civil activist and did not even know he had taken on that role until a local newspaper tagged him with that moniker. Chambers, who was the keynote speaker at the Tangipahoa Parish NAACP Awards banquet on June 19, recalled...

A proposed subdivision in Gonzales that was unanimously rejected earlier this year by the Ascension Parish Planning Commission will return for another public hearing next month. The hearing is scheduled for July 8 on Harvest Fields, a proposed 112-home subdivision on approximately 38 acres along the west side of La....

Badgers ' Evan Flood recently had a chance to break down prized Wisconsin Badgers commit Yahzeen Zion's visit to LSU. In the NIL era, it's incredibly hard for Luke Fickell's squad to compete with an SEC program, let alone try and take down LSU. Zion committed to the Badgers back on June 6. According to 247Sports , he

BATON ROUGE — The Baton Rouge Police Department identified a teen who was killed in a Sunday evening shooting along Blue Grass Drive. According to officials, the victim was identified as 19-year-old Kaleb Stampley, who was killed in a shooting that occurred around 7 p.m. near BREC's Fortune Addition Park.

In the past few weeks, Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge and West Feliciana parishes have approved or proposed substantial increases in teacher pay for the upcoming school year. A handful of other public school districts outside the Baton Rouge region — Bossier, Caddo, DeSoto and Lafourche parishes — have done...

The Baton Rouge Fire Department put out two unrelated car fires at Greenwell Springs Road and Platt Drive on Sunday, June 27.

ADDIS — Early Monday morning, firefighters, police and first responders were called to a home that caught fire along Myhand Street in Addis. Officials first reported the fire just before 4:30 a.m., with West Baton Rouge Parish Fire officials adding that crews quickly brought the fully involved fire at a manufactured ho

ST. GEORGE - First responders are working to pull a person out of a wrecked vehicle along Bluebonnet Boulevard, the St. George Fire Department said Sunday evening. The fire department posted shortly before 9:30 p.m. that firefighters were on the scene of a crash involving an extrication in front of Brew-Bacher’s Grill.