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BATON ROUGE — It’s now going on week four as the landfill search continues for Ja’Derrius Minneweather. No one has seen the 15-year-old in more than two months. He was last seen on June 5, 2026. About two weeks after he went missing, the Baton Rouge Police Department (BRPD) arrested 50-year-old Maurice Robbia Parms in

BATON ROUGE — Authorities arrested a 31-year-old woman accused of driving her teenage boyfriend across state lines to hide him from police after he shot her in the face. According to a BRPD arrest warrant, Charlitria Thomas got into an argument with her 15-year-old boyfriend in December 2025. During...

BATON ROUGE, La. — Grammy Award-winning R&B icon Bobby Brown will headline Southern University's 4th Annual Athletics Gala later this month, bringing one of music's most recognizable performers to Baton Rouge for an evening focused on strengthening support for Jaguar athletics. The black-tie event is scheduled for Aug.

This month, Sheriff Jason Ard along with Livingston Parish Sheriffs Office Special Victims’ Unit (SVU) Detectives began an investigation involving a First Degree Rape and Molestation of a Juvenile complaint. Sheriff Jason Ard says, “During the course of the investigation, multiple interviews were conducted and evidence

BATON ROUGE — A house caught fire early Friday morning along Alice Street in Baton Rouge. The fire first broke out around 4:20 a.m., a Baton Rouge Fire Department spokesperson told WBRZ. Crews arrived to find heavy flames coming from the back of the home. Within 30 minutes of...

BRPD confirmed that a man showed up at a hospital with a gunshot wound.

BATON ROUGE — The inaugural Capital City Music Festival will feature blues, zydeco, Southern soul and brass-band music. The event, at the Lawn at L'Auberge Casino Hotel Baton Rouge on Oct. 24, is headlined by Kenny Neal, Cupid and Lil Nathan and The Zydeco Big Timers. The full lineup...

A Denham Springs woman who worked as an accountant pleaded guilty to two counts of wire fraud.

BATON ROUGE, La. (KLFY) — A Houston man is facing felony charges after allegedly receiving more than $43,000 in fraudulent benefits from the Louisiana State Employees’ Retirement System. The man, identified as Dyer, is accused of failing to notify the state of his mother’s death to continue collecting...

TikTok star Mr. Prada was found mentally fit Thursday to stand trial in the killing of a Baton Rouge therapist. Two doctors found 22-year-old Terryon Thomas — who was known as Mr. Prada on TikTok — mentally competent to stand trial in the death of 69-year-old William Nicholas Abraham, a well-known Baton Rouge mental he