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BATON ROUGE — East Baton Rouge Parish deputies have arrested a woman accused of shooting a car with two people inside. According to deputies, they were called to investigate a shooting along Fontainebleau Drive on Aug. 10. Deputies learned that a man went to Fontainebleau to pick up another person. The person being picked up, deputies note, was involved in a previous physical altercation with 44-year-old Stephanie Sharp.

BATON ROUGE — A local U.S. Army veteran received a major surprise Tuesday morning: a brand-new roof for her home, free of charge. Amy White was selected as the recipient through the Owens Corning Foundation’s Roof Deployment Project. Since launching in 2016, the nationwide initiative has teamed up with local contractors across the country to deliver new roofs to military service members and their families.

On October 26, Ascension Parish Council rejected an application to rezone 22.35 “adjacent (south) of Dutchtown High School” which would have cleared the way for a Walmart. The parcel, located on Hwy 73, approximately 1050′ north of Hwy 74, is currently zoned Medium Intensity Residential with a request for Mixed Use. The Council ignored a recommendation by the Zoning Commission which had voted (5-2) to recommend approval of the request (the commission had ignored a STAFF recommendation to deny).

City Park Golf Course will soon be closing early on Sundays and opening up to nongolfers under a new pilot program — just a few months after the golf course was the subject of an ongoing debate in Baton Rouge. BREC plans to start a pilot program on Sundays...

The LSU women’s basketball team won’t have one of its transfer guards for the next two weeks. Coach Kim Mulkey said Tuesday that Chloe Larry, a point guard from Tennessee Tech, suffered a hairline fracture in her hand last Thursday in the No. 9 Tigers’ win over Texas Southern. The junior underwent a procedure to have a screw inserted into her injured hand, Mulkey said, which was why she did not play Tuesday in LSU’s win over McNeese State.

ZACHARY - Court records show charges against three Zachary men in an alleged dogfighting case have been dismissed for now. Investigators found small rusted cages and broken chains in Baker in July 2025 and charged the three Zachary men with more than 100 counts of dogfighting and animal cruelty. Authorities also recovered 28 dogs and euthanized them all.

An Alabama man pleaded guilty to charges in connection with stealing $32,000 worth of items while working as a FedEx driver.

BATON ROUGE — A local nonprofit is calling Baton Rouge citrus tree owners to donate the fruit from their trees. The organization Baton Rouge Green is organizing the event in partnership with the Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank. Baton Rouge Green will harvest the fruit and transport it to...

A string of scooter thefts from the Nicholson Gateway Apartment complex on the LSU campus led to the arrest of two armed suspects, police said. A victim reported to the LSU police department that their electric scooter, locked to the bike rack at Oxbow Hall, had been stolen on Oct. 17, prompting an investigation that revealed a string of scooter thefts.

The Gonzaga Bulldogs face a tough test on Saturday afternoon against the LSU Tigers, although significant reinforcements could be on the way. Chauncey Wiggins,