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BATON ROUGE — Baton Rouge country musicians are set to perform at a fundraiser concert for local nonprofit City Year Baton Rouge. City Year Baton Rouge, in partnership with local concert series Live After Five, will host its School House Rock Fest from 5 to 8 p.m. on Sept. 26 at Rhorer Plaza.

Baton Rouge, Louisiana is situated on the Mississippi River, about 230 miles from the Gulf of America. A team of professors and postdoctoral scholars at LSU has closed that distance by discovering a way to track hypoxia in the Gulf quicker and more efficiently. Hypoxia is when oxygen levels are...

A West Baton Rouge judge agreed to delay once again the trial of a man accused of causing a deadly police car chase on New Year’s Eve 2022 that killed Brusly teens Caroline Gill and Maggie Dunn. Recent court documents show the trial of Tyquel Zanders, who is charged...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A Baton Rouge woman has been arrested in connection with the death of another woman following an attack earlier this summer, according to the Baton Rouge Police Department. The arrest documents show that Deja Jannae Shanice Jones, 28, was booked into the East Baton Rouge...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The coroner has responded to the scene of a person hit by a vehicle in Baton Rouge, officials said. The incident happened around 8 p.m. on Monday, September 15, on Cottondale Drive near Delplaza Drive. A spokesperson with the Baton Rouge Police Department confirmed they...

BATON ROUGE - Southern University students returned to campus Monday after a four-day lockdown that left many on edge. Many questions remain about what exactly caused the campus lockdown last week. WBRZ spoke with several students, and they said that despite the scary situation, the steps the university took made...

BATON ROUGE - A man was hospitalized Friday night when he crashed his motorcycle into an East Baton Rouge Sheriff's unit while fleeing from police, EBRSO told WBRZ. According to the sheriff's office, a deputy tried to stop 25-year-old Tye Carlock just before 10 p.m. for driving his motorcycle 112 miles per hour on...

BATON ROUGE — Offices at the Louisiana Workforce Commission were evacuated Monday afternoon after a bomb threat was sent in by email, Louisiana State Police told WBRZ. The office is near the corner of North 22nd Street and Fuqua Street, just off Interstate 110. Online traffic maps showed slow...

ASCENSION PARISH, La. (WAFB) - A Geismar man has pleaded guilty to three counts of indecent behavior with a juvenile following his 2019 arrest. According to prosecutors, Jermain Miles’ plea came with a sentence of seven years behind bars, which were suspended. He will have five years of supervised probation and must...

PORT ALLEN, La. (WAFB) - Deputies said they are asking for the public’s help to identify two women accused of stealing items from the Walmart in Port Allen. According to the West Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office, one of the women wearing a green shirt entered the store on Thursday, July 31, and filled a shopping cart...