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Travis Kenny, 21, was arrested and charged with second-degree murder in connection with a deadly shooting at a Baton Rouge barbershop last month, which resulted in the death of Marvin Tolliver, 29.

Verizon customers in Baton Rouge are experiencing temporary network connectivity issues due to a motor vehicle accident involving a utility pole, and crews are working to restore full service by late Wednesday evening.

A state judge upheld contempt rulings against two Baton Rouge public defenders Wednesday and fined both attorneys for their conduct during a contentious murder trial earlier this year. Stephen Sterling and La’Deisha Woods were part of Brian Alexander Lavergne’s team of trial attorneys in August when he was tried the...

BATON ROUGE — A woman spent $100 on a dresser at a local thrift store, but what she found inside turned out to be priceless. When Michelle Morgan thrifted the dresser from Joseph’s Storehouse in Baton Rouge, she had no idea it held a piece of someone’s history until she got home.

Investigators with the state Attorney General's Office and the Louisiana Bureau of Investigation have made another arrest in the case of a missing 13-year-old girl from Baker, who was found in a Pittsburgh basement. Alvin Hanson, 64, was arrested in New Orleans on Oct. 28 on a count of contributing...

LIVINGSTON - A man who pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide after a 2024 car crash that left a Walker High senior dead was sentenced to 18 years in prison. Shawn Robertson Jr. was arrested by Denham Springs Police in March 2024 on a second-offense DWI after the New Year's Day 2024 crash that killed Blakeleigh Weems...

A man accused of starting a St. George house fire a few months ago was arrested Tuesday.

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Firefighters battled flames at a building near Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Baton Rouge on Tuesday, November 4. According to the Baton Rouge Fire Department, the fire broke out just before 3 p.m. on Main Street near the church. The flames took more than one hour to extinguish.

Baton Rouge native rapper Young Bleed died at the age of 51 after a brain aneurysm, his son confirmed on social media.

GONZALES — The father of Kyren Lacy teamed up with a Baton Rouge-area nonprofit organization to address mental health within the community. Kenneth Lacy lost his son, Kyren Lacy, in April of this year. "When my son took his life, he was going through something mentally, but now guess...