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Country star John Foster lit up The Texas Club this past weekend with two sold-out shows on Friday and Saturday night.

LOUISIANA — Authorities are investigating after a decomposed body was discovered along a pipeline access road off Lobdell Highway on Monday afternoon, according to the West Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office. Officials said the body was found around 2:30 p.m. by a resident of the nearby Audubon Inn, who immediately...

BATON ROUGE — Two domestic violence cases in as many days. Two women dead. Two men who turned the gun on themselves and an unspoken number of children left to carry invisible scars. Monday morning, Baker Police responded to Tristian Avenue for reports of a shooting. A woman was...

LIVINGSTON — A woman involved in a 2021 car crash in Killian that killed a Denham Springs woman has been sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to pay a fine. On July 21, 2025, Kelli Lemoine pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide. On Aug. 4, a judge sentenced...

GREENWELL SPRINGS - A man was arrested for the attempted arson of a religious building after allegedly completing an ATM heist with a stolen vehicle and trying to burn the evidence in a church parking lot. Lloyd Carlos, 32, reportedly stole a truck from inside Baton Rouge city limits and...

WATSON - A man accused of swapping price tags at the Watson Walmart's self-checkout was arrested by the Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office. Deputies said Ryan Meador of Central was palming price tags of inexpensive items, like Great Value pasta, while appearing to ring up the stolen items. LPSO said he stole more...

BATON ROUGE — Baton Rouge Police officers are investigating four separate shootings that all occurred on August 3. Two were deadly, and the other two left multiple people injured, including a minor. The first deadly shooting happened around 6:30 a.m. Sunday morning on Byron Avenue. Homicide detectives say Frank...

ILA Marcela Jacobs was arrested for fraudulently receiving over $269,000 in retirement benefits from the Teachers Retirement System of Louisiana (TRSL) in the name of her deceased mother.

Keith and Sheryl Duncan from Denham Springs were arrested for defrauding Medicaid of over $133,000 by hiding their marriage and underreporting their income.

Renters in Baton Rouge can get more space for their money compared to many other U.S. cities, with $1,500 renting an average of 1,138 square feet, over five times more than in Manhattan.