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ZACHARY — A 61-year-old Zachary man was arrested earlier this week on rape charges. According to a report from the Zachary Police Department, a sexual assault victim was being treated at North Oaks Health Medical Center in Hammond on Sunday. Police later identified the victim's alleged abuser as Brent...

On the morning of his third day at trial, 19-year-old Tyler Hoggan pleaded guilty to a charge of manslaughter in connection with a fatal shooting outside of a North Acadian Thruway convenience store. Hoggan had been indicted on a second-degree murder charge, accused of shooting Patrick White, 29, in November...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Fire crews battled flames overnight at the old Children’s Charter School on North Street in downtown Baton Rouge. Officials at the scene said the fire began around 1:30 a.m. The Baton Rouge Children’s Charter School was founded in 1997 and held a maximum of...

A Walker man will spend 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to raping and beating two women in Baton Rouge and Livingston Parish. David Coutee, 40, attacked the women in separate incidents in 2024, according to prosecutors. He beat one with a hammer and a flashlight and locked her in an attic, and he choked the ot

BATON ROUGE - A man accused of raping an employee at Baton Rouge City Hall in one of the facility's bathrooms was booked into jail Monday. Alfred Richardson, 67, was arrested in the assault that reportedly happened Sept. 16. An arrest warrant says the victim told authorities that he entered...

PORT ALLEN — The cause of death for former Port Allen Mayor Derek Lewis was revealed on Monday following his death in an emergency room at Our Lady of the Lake in August. It was deemed that the 65-year-old former mayor died of natural causes according to a pathologist at the West Baton Rouge Coronoer's Office.

WALKER — An officer with the Walker Police Department has been arrested for indecent behavior with a juvenile, the Livingston Parish Sheriff Office announced on Monday. Hayden McKenzie is currently being held at the Livingston Parish Detention Center without bond, according to local jail records. Sheriff Jason Ard, alo

BATON ROUGE — Southern University received a $1.275 million, three-year cooperative agreement from the Minority Business Development Agency to establish the Louisiana Innovation for Thriving Rural Business Center. The center is an initiative designed to strengthen rural businesses, expand access to financing and govern

IBERVILLE PARISH — Officials in Texas and Louisiana are searching for a 22-year-old woman who was reported last seen on the Atchafalaya River Basin Bridge last week after a crash in Iberville Parish. Louisiana State Police troopers are investigating a crash that happened early on Wednesday, Sept. 30, on I-10 eastbound

An electrical fire in a first-floor kitchen of a Baton Rouge apartment building on Delplaza Drive displaced one resident on Monday morning.