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BATON ROUGE — BREC's Baton Rouge Zoo is kicking off its annual spooky season celebration with "Boo at the Zoo" opening for its first weekend Saturday. The family-friendly event, presented by Hancock Whitney, runs from Oct. 17–18 and Oct. 24–25 during regular zoo hours, from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., with last entry at 4 p.m.

In a fight to save more of Louisiana’s smallest patients, a Baton Rouge hospital invested in a device that replaces the function of the heart and lungs by pumping blood outside of the body. Called ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation machine), the machine is an advanced life-support used for infants,...

BATON ROUGE — Instead of their usual Saturday night kickoffs, the LSU Tigers took the field early for an 11 a.m. homecoming game—meaning tailgate action started before sunrise. When LSU fans swap jambalaya and gumbo for breakfast casseroles and sausage burritos, you know it’s an early start.

BATON ROUGE — Deputies with the East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office deployed pepper balls on crowds following LSU's football game to break up several fights that had broken out in the area on Saturday. According to the sheriff's office, EBRSO, along with numerous other law enforcement agencies, was requested...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A Baton Rouge-area family celebrated a seven-year-old’s birthday at the McDonald’s parking lot where she was born. Bruce and Maria Newman were planning to have their daughter, Olivia, at Woman’s Hospital. Olivia arrived earlier than expected. “We were at this very McDonald’s...

BATON ROUGE — A man was arrested on various drug charges following the execution of a search warrant on Bluegrass Drive on Wednesday as part of an ongoing investigation by the Baton Rouge Police Department. Officers seized crack cocaine, cocaine, marijuana, a digital scale, along with cash, leading to...

BATON ROUGE — A driver was taken into custody on Friday after allegedly leading Louisiana State Police on a pursuit along I-12. The incident occurred around 2:35 p.m. when troopers attempted to stop a vehicle on I-12 believed to be connected to an armed robbery investigation in West Baton Rouge Parish.

The St. George Fire Department responded to a fire at a Sam's Club on N. Mall Drive, leading to evacuations and requests for residents to avoid the area.

BATON ROUGE — LSU named its 2026 homecoming king and queen Saturday at halftime of the Tigers' game against Mississippi State. Homecoming king Jaylen Pruiett is a Shreveport native in his senior year, majoring in psychology on the pre-med track. According to an interview with the Reveille, Pruiett currently serves as vice president of Collegiate 100 and secretary of the Black Student Union.

Homecoming weekend kicked off with the National Pan-Hellenic Council’s annual Divine Nine Step Show on Friday at LSU’s Union Theater. With a combination of stepping, strolling, history and pop culture references, NPHC members put on a show that hundreds of students, alumni and community members alike enjoyed. The...