Baton Rouge LA

Sheriff Craig Webre announced two members of the Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s Office were recently recognized at a statewide award ceremony. Sergeant Todd Prevost and Deputy Wendy Plaisance were honored with Heart of Law Enforcement Awards, presented by the Beyond the Badge organization, in a ceremony in Baton Rouge. A...

WATSON, La. (WAFB) - A 26-year-old was found shot to death Wednesday evening, Mar. 18, at the McDonald’s near the intersection of Highway 16 and Springfield Road in Watson, according to Acadian Ambulance. Acadian Ambulance confirmed that an ambulance crew was dispatched to the restaurant but later canceled. The...

Baton Rouge businesses Les Amis Bake Shoppe and City Roots Coffee Bar have teamed up to open a downtown food, dessert and coffee spot. The bakery and coffee business is located in II City Plaza at 400 Convention St., on the first floor of a 12-story building spanning more than 250,000 square feet. This is City Roots'...

BATON ROUGE - A vacant church on Thomas H. Delpit Drive is a total loss following a Thursday afternoon fire, the Baton Rouge Fire Department said. Officials said they responded to the Faith A.M.E. Zion Church by the intersection of Taft Street and Thomas H. Delpit Drive around 5:21 p.m., with flames in the stairwell...

Dawn Staley has made Southern University feel at home ahead of its matchup with South Carolina. The post Dawn Staley gifts HBCU squad ahead of matchup with South Carolina appeared first on HBCU Gameday .

A cacophony of brass and woodwinds followed Grammy Award-winning music educator William Allen as he weaved between practice rooms and performance halls on Southern University’s campus Tuesday. He ducked into the classroom of a former professor, taking a moment to reminisce and tell the handful of students present...

In a move to uphold the honor of our veterans, Louisiana is cracking down on those who falsely claim military service. Let’s unpack what that means.

A local nonprofit that provides educational programming for young people is building a $3 million amphitheater outside its north Baton Rouge offices. The Louisiana Leadership Institute, an organization founded by U.S. Rep. Cleo Fields, D-Baton Rouge, is building an Education and Wellness Hub that will serve as public...

Anyone who has lived with teenagers knows their prodigious capacity for slumber. Those hours in a deep sleep help adolescents contend with the many changes their bodies and minds are undergoing, and some have argued for years that early school starts put them at a deficit when the day begins and set them up for...

ARDMORE, Okla. (WAFB) - The truck driver who was arrested and accused of kidnapping a Zachary teenager waived extradition to return to Louisiana. The WAFB I-TEAM also learned Thursday that Michael Jay was found in the shower of a Love’s Truck Stop with a minor Tuesday night, authorities in Oklahoma said.