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A Baton Rouge woman is suing Amazon and security personnel on claims of negligence in connection with the shooting death of a 21-year-old man.

In 2024, a Baton Rouge teenager named Markel Lee was filmed for a violence-prevention program. Louisiana defunded the program. Two years later, a 17-year-old named Martha Odom is dead. The state would like us to file those two stories in separate folders. We will not. Watch him at sixteen. A...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Principal Kathie Johnson returned to Villa del Rey Creative Services and Arts Magnet School on Wednesday (May 6) to a surprise welcome from students and staff after completing treatment for cancer. Johnson was diagnosed with large B cell lymphoma last year. Last week, she received...

Drivers can take advantage of a discount at participating Baton Rouge Circle K locations this Thursday as gas prices continue to rise.

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Investigators with the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office are asking the public for any information regarding a fatal hit-and-run from February. According to officials, around 5:45 a.m. on February 28, deputies were dispatched to Jefferson Highway near the intersection of Willow Trail Drive in reference to a crash.

BATON ROUGE - The Baton Rouge Fire Department says a Hazmat unit is working a chemical spill on Scenic Highway. Officials said that as a building was being torn down around Scenic Highway and 70th Street, a few drums of a "caustic substance" were spilled. City officials said the company that was at the building previously left chemicals behind.

Phoenix Hernandez, a 21-year-old LSU fraternity member, was arrested Wednesday and booked on a third-degree rape charge after LSU police say a woman woke up in a hallway outside his room at the Delta Chi fraternity house following a night of heavy drinking. Investigators say they later seized audio messages and other material they believe are relevant to the case. Hernandez...

BATON ROUGE — The Baton Rouge Police Department has asked for the public's help in identifying three people who allegedly stole from a clothing store along Airline Highway near Old Hammond Highway. Police said the trio took several items up to the counter as if to check out. When...

ZACHARY — All three people injured in a crash involving an Acadian ambulance and a Demco truck have returned home, an Acadian spokesperson said Wednesday. Two of the people injured in the Tuesday morning crash along La. 19 were Acadian Ambulance medics. "Everybody is home recovering," the spokesperson added....

METAIRIE, La. — A 45-year-old man is accused of a violent crime spree across four parishes that involved 2 stabbings, a couple of stolen vehicles, attempted carjackings and a store robbery. The entire venture started around 6 a.m. in Assumption Parish and ended after he jumped off of the Causeway into Lake Pontchartrain and had to be rescued.