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A Baton Rouge woman is accused of asking for and not paying back over $5,800 dollars from a former classmate who is autistic.

BATON ROUGE — A Denham Springs accountant pleaded guilty to two counts of wire fraud after using company credit cards to pay for personal expenses. Anisha Devall Hunter, 48, entered the plea before U.S. District Court Judge John W. deGravelles, according to officials. The charges stem from Hunter’s work...

The East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner's Office identified the woman killed after being hit by a vehicle Monday night along Old Hammond Highway.

A woman was arrested on Tuesday by Baton Rouge police after she allegedly attacked another woman and fired a gun at her and her three children while at a gas station. According to the arrest warrant, on June 23, the victim visited a gas station at 8940 Greenwell Springs Road, while livestreaming on Facebook. Police say

A Louisiana family is sleeping in tents while their 11-year-old daughter undergoes brain tumor treatment, making incredible sacrifices to keep hope alive.

Many parish-level leaders and volunteers for Louisiana Deserves Better, the statewide campaign to force recall elections against Gov. Jeff Landry and state Attorney General Liz Murrill, have left the organization due to alleged financial mismanagement and poor leadership on the part of its chairperson, Marian Gbaiwon.

BATON ROUGE - A woman reached out to 2 On Your Side after saying her communication with her landlord had deteriorated. Officials declared her home uninhabitable. Charlisha Grant is living in a one-bedroom hotel room with her three children. It costs them $67 a day. It's her only option right now, since her home is cove

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A federal judge has acquitted an undocumented man accused of intentionally ramming a vehicle into federal immigration agents during an enforcement operation in Baton Rouge, ruling the government’s case was not proven beyond a reasonable doubt. Evodio Merida-Tavera was charged in a federal indi

DENHAM SPRINGS -- A Denham Springs family is doing everything they can to help their eleven-year-old daughter battle brain cancer. Breann and Austin Tanton and their family have already had to move out of their home, out of the state of Louisiana, and for the last week, they have been even sleeping outside to save mone

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A local business owner has spent more than a year demanding answers after utility crews left a large crater in his driveway — and a regulatory loophole is leaving the state with little power to help him. Jacob May, owner of Empire Roofing on...