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BATON ROUGE, La. – The LSU track and field team is splitting up this week to head to both the east and west coasts. The distance team went to California for the Bryan Clay Invitational, and the rest of the team went to Florida for the Tom Jones Invitational.

SVALBARD, Norway — The famous Baton Rouge-born Nader sisters will participate in a study this month examining how women's health is affected by extreme climates. The "eXtreme Environment and Reproductive Sleep and Circadian Health" study will be conducted by researchers at NYU Langone Health, the University of Arizona and the Space Prize Foundation.

The City of St. George is launching a new call center on April 16 to provide residents with a faster and easier way to get answers to their questions, which will be available 24/7 through an AI-powered program and during regular business hours with city staff for direct assistance.

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A new roundabout project near Southern University’s campus has secured initial funding and is moving into the design phase. The project, located just off Scenic Highway across the tracks from Southern University’s campus, received $850,000 in initial funding from Congressman Cleo Fields. Tony...

ORANGE — Police in Orange came away with a large haul of drugs, including more than three pounds of cocaine and methamphetamine, following a traffic stop. Officers with the OPD Criminal Interdiction Unit stopped a driver Tuesday on Interstate 10 East near the 874 mile marker. Detectives saw what they call evidence of criminal activity.

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A free festival celebrating swamp blues and all that the genre has inspired returns to Baton Rouge this weekend. The Baton Rouge Blues Festival, a weekend-long celebration of blues, is taking place on Friday, Apr. 17, and Saturday, Apr. 18, in downtown around 3rd Street and surrounding areas. The Blues Fest Kick-Off on Friday coincides with the Live...

Three people were arrested and a fourth is wanted for a burglary in Bayou Sorrel, according to the Iberville Parish Sheriff's Office.

A Baton Rouge man was arrested after allegedly setting fire to a car near a house where his ex-girlfriend and others lived.

BAKER, La. (WAFB) -A Baker woman was charged with several counts of child desertion and cruelty to juveniles after officers found her children left unsupervised in a home they described as “deplorable.”. Officers investigated complaints of several children being left alone at a home on Wilson Street, Sunday, March...

BATON ROUGE — Police said Wednesday they had accused a man of shooting a caged dog that had growled at him. Lamond D. Green, 54, told officers that, on March 3, he was scolding one of his penned dogs when a nearby dog that belonged to his son growled at him.