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The Baton Rouge Police Department seized a large amount of cocaine during a traffic stop.

Celebrating National Cheeseburger Day just got a little easier as we share our list of some of the best places to grab a burger this Friday or any day. We asked some members of The Advocate staff to share where they like to order a cheeseburger. Here’s what they said, including some tips and hacks to elevate the alread

Southern University has announced its schedule of events for the 2026 Homecoming Week, which is scheduled to take place from Sept. 27 to Oct. 3.

Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries enforcement agents cited three subjects for alleged alligator harvesting violations in two separate cases. On Sept. 3 in St. Martin Parish, agents cited Blair Weber, 47, of Brusly, and Clifford Legrange, 77, of Plaquemine, for cutting a live alligator from a line prior to

A man and a juvenile were arrested in connection with a deadly shooting in Livingston Parish.

A man with eight felony convictions was arrested again after a multi-week investigation into an accused Baton Rouge area fentanyl trafficker.

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Iberville Federal Credit Union in Plaquemine was forced to close its doors Friday due to a nationwide computer system outage affecting hundreds of financial institutions. On Friday afternoon, several upset customers gathered outside the locked credit union hoping to get answers. Those customer

A fan map for Saturday’s game between No. 7 LSU (2-0) and No. 8 Ole Miss (2-0) confirmed what many Tiger fans already knew: It is LSU versus everybody going into kickoff (6:30 p.m., ABC) in Vaught-Hemingway Stadium in Oxford, Mississippi. “It’s a landslide,” Josh Barton with Bet Online...

BATON ROUGE — One person was shot in the stomach along Peerless Street on Friday, Baton Rouge Police told WBRZ. The shooting happened around 10 a.m. near the intersection of Simplex Street. This is a developing story.

A group of East Baton Rouge Parish Prison inmates allegedly gained access to a control panel and attacked another man in his cell. Kaleub Parker, William Peters, Jace Jackson, Jeremiah Jackson and Malachi Cooper — all 17 years old — face counts of aggravated assault in connection with the attack at the prison, accordin