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St. Amant junior linebacker Brody Bumgardner never had such an opportunity in high school before. With the Gators leading by nine points and holding out hope of a chance to share in the District 5-5A championship, Bumgardner helped put the game out of reach with a 56-yard fumble return with 5:25 to play to cinch a 31-21 victory Friday over Dutchtown at The Pit in St. Amant.

A new piece of evidence has emerged in the search for Christina Munn-Holliday, but questions remain about her disappearance.

Plans for a 3-million-square-foot logistics and industrial park in Zachary are set to go before the East Baton Rouge Parish Planning Commission in December. Ambrose, an Indianapolis-based industrial developer, wants to build the park on a 217-acre tract at 18510 Samuels Road, a few miles north of the East Baton Rouge Parish North Landfill.

A Baton Rouge neighborhood features more than 200 skeletons dressed as celebrities and pop culture icons in a creative Halloween display known as the Skelebrity Graveyard.

Flags across Louisiana were lowered to half-staff on Saturday to honor legendary LSU basketball coach Dale Brown.

Only days before Tuesday’s open primary, the race for a vacant congressional seat centered in Baton Rouge remains hotly competitive, with six Republicans and Democrats bunched together, polling shows. The top two finishers who emerge from the scrum Tuesday night, regardless of party, will go head-to-head in a December...

BATON ROUGE — The Baton Rouge Fire Department is investigating an abandoned apartment building fire along Florida Boulevard as arson. According to fire officials, crews responded to the fire at the Summer Grove Apartments, which are boarded up and unoccupied, around 9:25 p.m. Thursday. Firefighters arrived to find smoke and flames coming from the back of one of the buildings.

A call for answers in the death of 18-year-old Nolan Wells is bringing communities together across the country, including Baton Rouge.

Deputies arrested seven people in connection with illegal drug activity in West Baton Rouge Parish. Three are wanted.

The former Istrouma at Sugar Farms, 5990 Bayou Paul Road in St. Gabriel, is for sale. The owners, the Haynes family, posted on Instagram that they are moving to Nashville and selling everything from decor to tractors to antique sugar kettles. An estate sale is scheduled for 8 a.m. to...