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BATON ROUGE — A Louisiana State Police trooper who allegedly covered up evidence and coerced a domestic violence victim to lie to law enforcement that was investigating him has been indicted on several charges, including malfeasance in office, domestic abuse battery and obstruction of justice. On Wednesday, a grand...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The Louisiana Supreme Court has declined to rehear state prosecutors’ request to remove a district judge from a high-profile rape case involving Casen Carver. The court had already rejected efforts to disqualify 19th Judicial District Court Judge Gail Horne Ray from presiding over the...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A Denham Springs man convicted of assaulting a postal employee was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison, U.S. Attorney Kurt Wall announced on Thursday, June 25. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Cody Gaspard, 27, of Denham Springs, must also serve two years of...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A grand jury has reviewed a case against LSP Trooper James Jefferson and has determined there’s sufficient evidence to formally charge him with domestic abuse battery with child endangerment. CHARGES. Domestic abuse battery with child endangerment. Obstruction of justice. Malfeasance in office

The Baton Rouge Police Department has made an arrest in a 1987 cold case, after DNA evidence found on the cord used to bind the victim’s hands led them to a suspect in Alabama. Thomas L. Klotz, a local radio station employee, was found on April 18, 1987, by...

After 25 years as Lemoine’s CEO, Lenny Lemoine is transitioning to the new role of executive chair. Lemoine, one of Louisiana’s largest privately held companies, is a portfolio company of Baton Rouge-based private equity firm Bernhard Capital Partners. Lenny Lemoine, who has spent more than 40 years with...

Two people were injured in separate shootings in Baton Rouge Tuesday night, both of which stemmed from physical fights, and one person was arrested on charges of attempted second-degree murder.

The Zachary Community School District and its contracted school bus operator are sparring over who is potentially liable after a middle school girl claimed she was raped by classmates during a bus ride home. The seventh grader's parents originally filed the suit in civil court against both the district and...

Last Saturday, the Mary Lee donut shop on Drusilla Lane was serving up a different kind of sweet treat to their Baton Rouge patrons — the Rukus X Nike Dunk Low “Donut,” a pink and chocolate brown sneaker. Shoe collectors and Nike fans stood in line for...

BATON ROUGE — A vacant house along Progress Road that caught fire earlier in the week became engulfed in flames yet again Thursday morning, Baton Rouge Fire officials said. The house, just off Scotland Avenue, caught fire around 4:40 a.m. on Thursday. Firefighters put the fire out just before 5 a.m., preventing flames