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An East Feliciana Parish corrections officer has been arrested and fired from his job after confessing to bringing contraband into the parish prison, the Sheriff’s Office said. Jaylon Turner, 21, of Zachary, was booked into prison on counts of introducing contraband into a penal institution and malfeasance in...

BATON ROUGE — East Baton Rouge Parish deputies arrested a 17-year-old accused of stealing a car and allegedly leading deputies on a chase and nearly crashing into a deputy's vehicle. Aaron Warren was arrested on Monday after deputies say they approached him in the parking lot of The Reserve...

A video spreading widely on social media purports to show support columns for the Atchafalaya Basin Bridge, which carries Interstate 10 between Baton Rouge and Lafayette, crumbling into the swamp — but the structures aren’t in Louisiana, state officials say. The video, shared on Instagram by an account...

AAA is now accepting applications for the beneficiary of its 20th Annual Taste of Acadiana event. This opportunity is open to all nonprofit organizations serving the Acadiana area.

If judges elected to the 19th Judicial District are the engine that powers the East Baton Rouge state court, then its commissioners serve as the pistons that help keep the motor revving smoothly. Commissioners are quasi-judges appointed by the 19th JDC’s panel of 15 elected judgeships. They have limited judicial...

Keep Louisiana Beautiful recently announced the 2025-2026 recipients of the University Affiliate Grant Program, awarding $43,722 in reimbursement grants to eight Louisiana universities to support recycling initiatives and reduce the use of single-use plastics on campus. Funded through a five-year EPA Gulf of Mexico...

I've been trying a lot of Italian food lately, as someone who largely didn't eat the cuisine growing up. After trying carbonara, bolognese and cannelloni from various spots, I decided the next dish on this Italian escapade should be a comforting classic. Enter Jed Local's Thursday lunch special: spaghetti and...

DETROIT — On Halloween weekend in 2010, Detroit burned. Vacant properties — Victorian homes with boarded windows, doors hanging loose and no one inside to protect them — became tinderboxes as arsonists moved through abandoned neighborhoods on the city’s infamous annual “Devil’s Night.” By Monday morning, Detroit had...

When Mary Gentry was looking for houses 25 years ago, she avoided Old Jefferson because of the flood risk. Gentry, a retired geologist, settled down in the Somersby subdivision, where wetlands sat behind her house, and she was left undisturbed by flooding for the first few years. After a subdivision was built behind...

A new billboard and cash reward are the latest tactics in helping solve the disappearance of Madison ReNae Allen of Zachary. Allen’s mother, Lynn Rollins, hopes the billboard will prompt tips from the public and provide answers about what happened to her daughter. “A lot of people do not...