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NOAA favors wetter conditions across Louisiana as El Niño influences the upcoming winter season.

“He was always going to show up,” are the first words that Baton Rouge Police Sgt. Brandon O’Neal used to describe Sgt. Caleb Eisworth. “He was a loyal LSU fan, which means he knew a thing or two about commitment, patience and surviving a little disappointment,” O’Neal said. “But underneath all of the jokes, the pranks and the stories, there was a man who took his job seriously, and lived his life with a purpose.”

Larry Salisbury was possibly already dead when police officers responded to a pair of welfare checks at the 92-year-old man's Baton Rouge home, according to arrest records for his son, who has been jailed in the beating death. Bruce Salisbury, 45, was arrested Tuesday night and booked into the East...

BATON ROUGE, La. (TCN) -- A man has been charged with first-degree murder in connection with the alleged fatal beating of his 92-year-old father. According to the Baton Rouge Police Department, officers responded to a residence on Oct. 12 to conduct a welfare check for an elderly man, Larry Salisbury. When they arrived, they saw him through an unsecured door and noted that he was obviously deceased. Investigators said he died of blunt force trauma, WAFB reports.

Conditions at a cemetery in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, recently sparked outrage among veterans, service members and civilians alike following a series of posts across Reddit over the weekend that showed a collapsed burial vault and an exposed casket at the grave marker of a U.S. Army soldier who died during the Korean War.

LSU tumbled into the low 20s in major polls after a hard-fought loss that left its season hanging by a thread under Lane Kiffin. Kentucky pulled off a dramatic upset at home by showing late resilience. A young coach’s locker-room message later revealed the physical edge that kept the Wildcats in the fight. Kentucky led 21-17 at the break even though LSU controlled more of the clock and outgained them overall in the first half. The advantage came from big-play moments and special teams. Quarterba

When Blythe E. Johnson attended the Ogden Park Prowl in 2019, she and her husband were convinced to move to the Mid City neighborhood from Shenandoah. She said they knew they wanted to be part of the diverse and artistic community. The neighborhood is gearing up for this year’s Ogden...

Get your sweaters out. This weekend will finally bring some weather-related relief to residents across southeast Louisiana as a cold front pushes through the region and drops lows into the 50s, forecasters with the National Weather Service said Thursday. “It’s a good 15-degree difference. It’s very noticeable,“ said Hannah Lisney,...

BATON ROUGE — A 31-year-old woman accused of crashing into four pedestrians near a Plank Road night club in 2025 – killing one of them – has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and hit-and-run driving. Family members of the woman who was killed say they do not support the plea deal prosecutors made in the crime. […] The post “It was all a slap in the face”: Family livid after woman pleads guilty in hit-and-run that killed one, injured three appeared first on Unfiltered with Kiran .

BATON ROUGE — The family of a woman killed in a hit-and-run on Plank Road says prosecutors did not listen to them before agreeing to a plea deal in the case. Family members of 22-year-old LaDerica Stewart said they wanted the case to go to trial instead of ending with a plea deal for Ty'Quencia Harris.