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A father has created the Leslie Elaine Guedry Memorial Endowed Scholarship in memory of his late daughter, Leslie Guedry, who earned a degree in speech pathology and worked as a speech therapist, to support students pursuing a degree in communicative disorders at Nicholls State University.

PLAQUEMINE - Monday night, the Iberville Parish courthouse turned into the center of an investigation after a fatal shooting. Louisiana State Police are handling the investigation where Deputy Charles Riley, Captain Brett Stassi, Jr. and Latrell Clark were all shot. Deputy Charles Riley, a six-year veteran with the...

BATON ROUGE — Terryon Thomas, known on TikTok as Mr. Prada, will return to court in January for a competency hearing after he was arrested for allegedly killing a Baton Rouge therapist. Thomas is due back in Judge Fred Crifasi's court on Jan. 28. Thomas was arrested in October...

BAKER — On Tuesday, Baker officials formally rededicated the Hillcrest Memorial Gardens Cemetery as the Norman E. Pete Heine Memorial Gardens. Heine served as Baker's mayor from 1964 to 1976; he died in December. The city council voted for the name change three years ago, but some people in...

Governor Jeff Landry, First Lady Sharon Landry, and District Attorney Tony Clayton visited Captain Brett Stassi in the hospital following a tragic shooting that left one deputy and a suspect dead, and flags will fly at half-staff in honor of Deputy Charles Riley until the day following his interment.

BATON ROUGE — Two major drug investigations in East Baton Rouge Parish have resulted in the seizure of more than 1,600 lethal doses of fentanyl, along with large amounts of other narcotics, cash, and firearms, according to the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office. The separate, multi-agency operations led to nine...

A Port Allen woman was killed in a car crash Monday morning after getting t-boned at an intersection in West Baton Rouge, according to Louisiana State Police. Police say Janet Tchorlian, 80, was driving a 2018 Chevrolet Trax southbound on La. 983, when, at around 9:10 am, she ran a stop sign at its intersection with...

A Baton Rouge judge sentenced the man convicted of packing an unresponsive 2-year-old’s body into a suitcase and burying the child in Mississippi to life in prison without the possibility of parole on Wednesday. Phillip Kegan Gardner, 34, stood before 19th Judicial District Court Judge Fred Crifasi and asked...

Finding good food in unsuspecting places feels like a treasure hunt. When it comes to the Baton Rouge Department of Public Safety’s cafeteria, there may as well be an X marking the spot. The combination of Southern, home-cooked-style food, warm camaraderie and low prices makes the cafeteria feel secure,...

The body of Iberville Sheriff’s Deputy Charles W Riley will be escorted to his resting place in Ascension Parish on Wednesday, Oct. 8.