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BATON ROUGE — It’s now the end of the second week officials have spent searching a portion of the North Landfill for Ja’Derrius Minnieweather. Minnieweather, 15, was declared a missing person after he was last seen on June 5. Police believe 15-year-old Minnieweather was murdered on June 5 and his body hidden in a trash

The United Cajun Navy is warning against the spread of online rumors and misinformation following the death of 18-year-old Nolan Wells, whose body was found near Horn Island, Mississippi.

BATON ROUGE — A reported armed robbery near Coates Hall at LSU turned out to be false, according to investigators. LSU sent an emergency text notification to students and staff on July 20 at 5:40 p.m., advising them to avoid the area after an armed robbery was reported near Coates Hall.

A call about a shooting in East Feliciana Parish led to an almost three-hour search for a suspect and an arrest on attempted murder charges.

BATON ROUGE — The Alliance Safety Council held its first "Can-struction" showcase, bringing together three contracting companies in a friendly competition to benefit the community. Teams from Baker Construction, the Pala Group and Ascension Roofing built structures made entirely out of canned goods. All the groups comp

Heavy NSU presence in presentations at state high school coaches clinic. There was a strong Northwestern State Demons presence at this week’s Louisiana High School Coaches Association convention and clinic in Baton Rouge, gathering hundreds of coaches from around the state. The annual event provides a robust schedule o

BATON ROUGE - BREC Commissioners were served with a summons in a civil action lawsuit from an employee who had their termination overturned. Tonya Gordon Smith previously said she was fired because she refused what she called improper payment orders. Smith, who worked at BREC, said she refused to process payments that

BATON ROUGE - The Northdale Superintendent's Academy on Cletus Drive in Baton Rouge will now move to a new location for the 2026-2027 school year. The move to the Belfair campus on Fairfields Avenue was finalized Thursday evening by the EBR School Board. "I think that right now, the district...

BATON ROUGE - Several members of the community came together Thursday night to share ideas on how to make their neighborhood safer. "Not a hood, not inner city, not ghost town, we are a neighborhood. So we are striving to put neighbor back on hood," Community Advocate Pearl Porter said.

BATON ROUGE — Residents in the Old South Baton Rouge neighborhood say the city has abandoned their community, leaving behind overgrown lots, buckled pavement and blighted properties. The neighborhood sits south of Interstate 10 but north of LSU. From the interstate, many would struggle to notice there's a neighborhood.