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BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A fire truck sitting on the grounds of Louisiana’s Fire and Emergency Training Academy in Baton Rouge is more than a piece of equipment. It is a reminder of how Louisiana responded after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and how New York later returned the favor when Hurricane Katrina devastated Lou

The parish's annual audit came back with an adverse opinion on its component units. The auditor told the council the finding has appeared "just as in previous years." A review of 30 years of audits filed with the state confirms that. Not one council member asked a question about it.

Satisfy your sweet tooth at the second Great American Cookies and Marble Slab Creamery in Livingston Parish. See when, and where it is opening.

A ‘Swamp People’ personality is among three people arrested after Iberville Parish detectives recovered reportedly stolen materials from a Bayou Blue home.

Investigators are gearing up to search for human remains and other evidence on 15 acres of property linked to a man suspected in the disappearance of two women, West Feliciana Parish Sheriff Brian Spillman said Thursday. Sheriff’s deputies executed a search warrant just after noon Thursday at a residence on...

PRAIRIEVILLE — A Crime Stoppers tip helped detectives identify one of two suspects wanted in connection with a theft at a Circle K on La. Highway 73. Leonard Gaston, 62, of Baton Rouge, was arrested and charged with stealing between $5,000 and $25,000. Detectives are still working to identify the second suspect.

Former Clemson wide receiver Tee Higgins had some thoughts on Lane Kiffin and LSU this week.

ST. GABRIEL - A lieutenant colonel at Elayn Hunt Correctional Center was arrested Thursday for simple battery. Lt. Colonel Tyronika Wiggins was issued a misdemeanor summons related to an incident that happened inside the prison. Sheriff Brett Stassi said Wiggins allegedly grabbed the arm of a coworker, which led to...

A federal grand jury indicted a Baton Rouge man who was arrested after being found with $400,000 worth of cocaine.

For the second time since he was charged in August, former Baton Rouge Metro Council member LaMont Cole is asking the judge to throw out his indictment. In a motion filed in Baton Rouge court Thursday, Cole’s attorneys say the indictment written by Attorney General Liz Murrill’s prosecutors lacks crucial specifics abou