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Joseph Crapanzano’s family from New Orleans has owned a camp on the Mississippi Coast since just after Hurricane Katrina. His wife grew up outside Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and often visited the Coast with her family. So getting married in Bay St. Louis earlier this summer made sense. “It’s where our...

BATON ROUGE - A 22-year-old man was killed, and four others were injured in a shooting at a Baton Rouge apartment complex that police say stemmed from an ongoing dispute between two groups. Baton Rouge police said the shooting happened just before 5 p.m. Saturday at the Renaissance Gateway Apartments...

A Brusly man was sentenced to 49 years in prison in 18th Judicial District Court in Port Allen after pleading guilty to manslaughter, obstruction of justice and unauthorized entry into an inhabited dwelling. Tyler Davis shot and killed Ja’Morius Mitchell in 2024 in a sugarcane field in West Baton Rouge...

Photo credit: AI-generated image created using CHATGPT. Illustrative only. A neighbor dispute that started with a property line and a backyard build ended with Baton Rouge Metro Councilman Cleve Dunn Jr. ordered to pay more than $20,000—an expensive reminder of how fast “just a fence” can turn into years of court fight

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - An employee of an ankle monitoring company has been convicted of failing to monitor a man’s ankle monitor, which allowed him to slip through the cracks and commit murder, prosecutors say. It’s one of the first of its kind convictions in America, according to...

Soon-to-open locations include a restaurant in a beloved tourist destination.

BATON ROUGE — Baton Rouge Police seized 20 pounds of marijuana and three guns after arresting an alleged drug dealer. Treyvon Hart was arrested Aug. 19 on several drug and gun charges. Police said they found roughly 20 pounds of marijuana, as well as Ritalin and Adderall, while searching...

A 14-year-old was charged, and another was hurt when a gun went off while one of them was trying to disassemble it, BRPD said.

Former LSU All-American and head coach Jerry Stovall died at age 85 on Monday, Aug. 31.

A woman was killed in a single-vehicle crash in West Feliciana Parish early Monday morning.