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Gram's Mercantile will combine a vintage store, boutique shop, and a community hub

BATON ROUGE — Louisiana is leading the nation in reported flu cases, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as health officials encourage residents to take precautions to prevent the spread of the virus. While flu activity remains lower in the Baton Rouge area,...

BATON ROUGE — East Baton Rouge Parish voters will choose between two candidates in the District 3 school board runoff in one month. Four candidates originally ran for the seat. On election day, incumbent Carla Powell got more than 4,700 votes, and Thomasina Joseph got about 2,800 votes, sending them into a runoff.

A Baton Rouge man with a passion for and knowledge of bridges and roads has presented a plan to the Baton Rouge Area Foundation to change the skyline of Louisiana's capital city.

BATON ROUGE — Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has entered a bet with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ahead of the LSU-Texas game on Saturday. "I bet you a sack of crawfish against a rack of ribeyes that my Tigers are gonna beat your Longhorns," Landry said in a video posted Friday in front of the Jack and Priscilla Andonie Museum on LSU's campus.

BATON ROUGE — Multiple agencies were on the scene at a home in Baton Rouge Thursday afternoon. Inside, agents say they found a “large-scale chemical laboratory” with enough ingredients to create around 100 pounds of fentanyl, arrest documents say. East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s deputies, DEA agents, and even the District Attorney himself were out on […] The post Baton Rouge: Agents uncover lab with enough ingredients for 100 pounds of fentanyl appeared first on Unfiltered with Kiran .

The Louisiana Parole Project is expanding its housing program in Baton Rouge to provide stable accommodations for formerly incarcerated individuals seeking to rebuild their lives.

A Baton Rouge man faces a second-degree murder charge after he allegedly put another man in a chokehold at his sister’s residence during a family dispute in April. While the victim wasn’t suffocated, the altercation led to him falling, vomiting and requiring CPR before he died, police said.

Baton Rouge inmates housed in a north Louisiana parish prison have been cut off from the rest of the jail population as officials combat the smuggling of contraband like marijuana and tobacco, which they believe prisoners are trading with one another at the Baton Rouge district courthouse. East Baton Rouge...

MONROE, La. (KNOE) - National Signing Day across the area saw three of the top stars of Northeast Louisiana sign their letter of intent to LSU. Five-star Oak Grove center Caroline Bradley is heading to join Kim Mulkey’s squad as the only high school recruit in this class for LSU WBB. Bradley ranks as the number one center in the nation.