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An investigation is underway after one person was shot and killed in Baker on Thursday, July 16.

A man from Gonzales and another from Baton Rouge were found guilty of scheming to defraud insurance companies.

The Baton Rouge Police Department (BRPD) is investigating after a fight led to a shooting at a park in Baton Rouge on Sunday, July 19.

BATON ROUGE — A man accused of defrauding an East Baton Rouge Parish health program has been arrested by Louisiana Bureau of Investigation agents as part of an ongoing state probe into corruption within the city-parish government. According to the attorney general's office, Roderick Shannon allegedly defrauded the Safe

New CEO assesses role organization plays in today’s education landscape. When Teach For America launched 36 years ago, one of its pilot sites was Scotlandville High School in Baton Rouge, La., where I happened to teach. So, I’ve observed TFA from its earliest days and been a sometime-friend and sometime-critic over the

The ouster of the management of Impact Charter School in Baker in February 2025 prompted a bevy of civil lawsuits. The ugly legal fight entered criminal court last week when a federal grand jury indicted the founder of the school and family members for alleged theft and money laundering. It...

BATON ROUGE — Restaurant Week is back in Baton Rouge this week!. The summer edition of the twice-annual culinary event invites restaurant-goers to enjoy fixed menus at some of Baton Rouge's best restaurants. Most of the restaurants featured during the event, which runs from Monday, July 20, through Saturday,...

JA’KORI MADISON – The Advocate, Baton Rouge, La. More than a dozen first responders were honored Wednesday after working together to save the life of a 70-year-old woman who suffered cardiac arrest during Festival International de Louisiane and left the hospital three days later with no neurological deficits.

Iberville Parish Government Chief Administrative Officer Dwayne Boudreaux resigned from his post and will return to his previous line of work. Boudreaux stepped down to return to St. John High School, where he will work as a teacher and return as head coach of the Lady Eagle volleyball team. “I’m...

BATON ROUGE — Two people were displaced after a fire overtook multiple buildings along Maximillian and Myrtle streets early Monday morning. According to the Baton Rouge Fire Department, firefighters arrived along Maximillian Street around 3:05 a.m. to find two vacant houses consumed by flames. While crews fought these