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A woman charged in the murder of her 2-year-old daughter will put her fate in the hands of a jury and chance a mandatory life sentence, according to proceedings that played out Thursday in a Baton Rouge court. Lanaya Brittany Cardwell, 28, rejected a plea offer from state prosecutors that...

Domestic violence has no business hours. And those who fall victim to battery, abuse and stalking often need access to justice after the courthouse has closed for the day or week. But a new initiative aimed at making justice more readily accessible to victims in need of protection will bring...

ZACHARY — When Bobby Smith started thinking about what to get his father, Lionel, for his upcoming birthday, he realized no gift could ever measure up to the man who had given him everything. “Growing up, my dad was always the one that put family first and worked second,” Smith said. “As long as we […] The post A...

Country star Mark Chesnutt, 62, was hospitalized before his show with Alabama in Baton Rouge. The ’90s hitmaker recently underwent heart surgery in 2024.

The Iberville Parish Sheriff’s Office is investigating a deadly shooting that left a high school student dead and another person injured in Maringouin.

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A woman accused in the 2021 killing of her daughter, Nevaeh Allen, was back in court on Thursday, Oct. 16. Lanaya Cardwell denied a plea deal where prosecutors offered to charge her with cruelty to juveniles. She would have faced a maximum of 10 years in jail.

BATON ROUGE — Donald Steele, a former Baton Rouge Police officer convicted of malfeasance in office after a traffic stop in which a woman said Steele forcibly groped her, was sentenced to a year in prison on Thursday. With credit for time served, Steele will serve about another six...

PLAQUEMINE — An Iberville Parish deputy hospitalized after a shooting that left a colleague dead no longer needs a ventilator to breathe and is improving, sources told WBRZ on Friday. Brett Stassi Jr., the sheriff's son, has been in intensive care since the Oct. 6 shooting in an interrogation...

BATON ROUGE — An argument over a tattoo led to a deadly shooting that left a 29-year-old innocent man dead inside a Baton Rouge barbershop. Around 5 p.m. on Oct. 15, Baton Rouge Police officers responded to the Fade District Barbershop on Greenwell Springs Road near Platt Drive for reports of a shooting. Inside the...

A portion of Louisiana faced unhealthy air pollution levels early on Friday, official data showed.