Baton Rouge LA

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The Baton Rouge Fire Department says four people are displaced after a house fire on Dalton Street on Wednesday evening, September 3. Firefighters were called to the home on the 3900 block of Dalton Street around 7:08 p.m. Crews arrived minutes later and found the residents safely outside....

DENHAM SPRINGS - A Livingston Parish deputy has been fired and another has been demoted following an internal affairs review of a graphic arrest video that was posted to social media. WBRZ first reported that the video showed an arrest in the parking lot of Locals Bar, where a detainee...

A Ruston man escaped from a work release program in East Feliciana Parish, according to the local sheriff. Sheriff Jeff Travis said, “Unfortunately, one of our work releases inmates has fled custody. Inmate Christopher Truemaine Samuel left his assigned work detail on foot at approximately 8:40 a.m. Tuesday. Samuel...

Coming back from the Labor Day holiday, student enrollment in East Baton Rouge Parish schools has declined by about 3.7% compared to a year ago. If that holds, it would be the biggest enrollment decline for the state’s second-largest traditional school district since the first year of the COVID pandemic. And it would...

BATON ROUGE - Baton Rouge Police are investigating a shooting that happened near the intersection of Government Street and South Foster Drive early Monday morning. Police say 19-year-old Roderick Forkner was shot in his car, which then ran into the sign of the Smoothie King located on Government Street, around 3:30...

BATON ROUGE - A 28-year-old linked to a shooting that left a pregnant mother and her unborn child dead was arrested more than a month after the killings. Family tells WBRZ that Kimberlyn Martin was was sitting with her boyfriend outside of an apartment at Elevate on Highland when her boyfriend's brother, Alex Burns,...

Tank at Smitty’s Supply has blowout as cleanup process following major explosion continues. A tank at Smitty’s Supply in Tangipahoa Parish had a blowout Monday afternoon, September 1. Updated: 6 hours ago. Shocking surveillance video has surfaced of a brazen shooting at the corner of Government Street and...

BATON ROUGE - Less than a month into the school year, a Southern University freshman from Mississippi died. The university announced that Jade Lamb of Picayune passed away. "Though her time with us was short, Ms. Lamb was a valued member of our Jaguar family, and her loss will be felt across our campus. We extend our...

BATON ROUGE — Authorities in East Baton Rouge Parish are searching for a woman who allegedly stole several packages from people's homes across the parish. Deputies say that the woman was seen in several parts of the parish removing packages from residential porches and leaving in an older model SUV.

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A shocking video has sparked outrage in Baton Rouge after Roderick Forkner, a Southern University student, was killed and his passenger was injured in a shooting at a red light. The incident occurred when one car pulled up next to another, and gunfire erupted from...