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A local nonprofit that provides educational programming for young people is building a $3 million amphitheater outside its north Baton Rouge offices. The Louisiana Leadership Institute, an organization founded by U.S. Rep. Cleo Fields, D-Baton Rouge, is building an Education and Wellness Hub that will serve as public...

Anyone who has lived with teenagers knows their prodigious capacity for slumber. Those hours in a deep sleep help adolescents contend with the many changes their bodies and minds are undergoing, and some have argued for years that early school starts put them at a deficit when the day begins and set them up for...

ARDMORE, Okla. (WAFB) - The truck driver who was arrested and accused of kidnapping a Zachary teenager waived extradition to return to Louisiana. The WAFB I-TEAM also learned Thursday that Michael Jay was found in the shower of a Love’s Truck Stop with a minor Tuesday night, authorities in Oklahoma said.

GONZALES - Two people are in critical condition and one is headed to jail after a high-speed chase through Ascension Parish ended with the driver crashing into multiple cars. The driver, Carmille Anderson, allegedly stabbed a woman in Prairieville before the chase through Gonzales, which ended on Burnside Avenue....

ZACHARY — Zachary police have asked the public for help in identifying a man they say stole from a local store. Police shared a photo of the robbery suspect wearing a camouflage hoodie exiting the store. Anyone who can identify him is asked to call the Zachary Police Department...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The Baton Rouge Emergency Medical Services is responding to a report of a child shot on Ozark Street. EMS confirmed they transported one person from the scene in critical condition and that the injuries were self-inflicted. The Baton Rouge Police Department is on scene. This...

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WATSON — A man was fatally shot at the McDonald's near the corner of La. 16 and Springfield Road in Watson on Wednesday evening. Three people — 25-year-old Kevonta Dennis, 39-year-old Keedrick Jack and 26-year-old Keondra McNeely — were arrested in connection with the shooting of 26-year-old Mitchell Ventress. The...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A crash involving two vehicles was reported Wednesday evening on Burbank Drive near the Wildwood Baton Rouge apartment complex. A resident who lives at the complex told WAFB the vehicles collided head-on and that one of the cars went through a fence and into the apartment complex parking lot.

Smallcakes Baton Rouge is offering unique "original prayer cakes" in the shape of a cross, filled with heavenly creme cheese, paired with scripture, and includes a mini Jesus figure to provide comfort and strength to those in need.