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WALKER — An officer with the Walker Police Department has been arrested for indecent behavior with a juvenile, the Livingston Parish Sheriff Office announced on Monday. Hayden McKenzie is currently being held at the Livingston Parish Detention Center without bond, according to local jail records. Sheriff Jason Ard, alo

BATON ROUGE — Southern University received a $1.275 million, three-year cooperative agreement from the Minority Business Development Agency to establish the Louisiana Innovation for Thriving Rural Business Center. The center is an initiative designed to strengthen rural businesses, expand access to financing and govern

IBERVILLE PARISH — Officials in Texas and Louisiana are searching for a 22-year-old woman who was reported last seen on the Atchafalaya River Basin Bridge last week after a crash in Iberville Parish. Louisiana State Police troopers are investigating a crash that happened early on Wednesday, Sept. 30, on I-10 eastbound

An electrical fire in a first-floor kitchen of a Baton Rouge apartment building on Delplaza Drive displaced one resident on Monday morning.

DONALDSONVILLE, La. (WAFB) - An Addis man is facing charges after an early-morning Oct. 5 crash that left a 27-year-old dead. Louisiana State Police say the crash happened around 6 a.m. Monday morning on LA 1 near Stewart Road in Ascension Parish. According to authorities, the preliminary investigation shows that...

BATON ROUGE — A juvenile was arrested on attempted murder charges after a shooting over the weekend, a Baton Rouge Police spokesperson said. According to BRPD, officers responded to the shooting at a gas station near the corner of Scenic and 78th Avenue around 8 p.m. on Saturday. Once they arrived, police found two peo

BATON ROUGE — Two Westdale Middle School students were arrested after threatening each other, the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office said. On Friday, the school drug task force investigated a social media incident that occurred off campus as the pair got into an argument and were subsequently charged with aggrava

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Westlake Corporation is investigating an incident where an employee experienced a medical emergency on Saturday October 3 and later died. Westlake Corporation told WAFB the employee was found unresponsive in the unit, and emergency response teams provided first aid around 7:44pm. The employee

PLAQUEMINE - The Iberville Parish Sheriff's Office and Louisiana State Police are investigating the disappearance of Texas woman Christina Munn Holliday. WBRZ spoke with Munn Holliday's parents, who called the circumstances surrounding their daughter's disappearance "suspicious." In the early hours of Wednesday, Sept.

Conceived a decade ago, the RiverPlex MegaPark in Ascension Parish took years to bear fruit before attracting tens of billions of dollars in new industrial investment to a bend in the Mississippi River. Now officials in neighboring Iberville Parish are considering a similar industrial zone just upriver that would abut.