Baton Rouge LA

BATON ROUGE — The family of Maressa Mays wants answers as to what happened during a brief jail stint that ended in her death last month. "We want justice, and no, she wasn't perfect, but we still want justice. That was our baby," her father said. Throughout her adult...

BATON ROUGE — A Baton Rouge judge's son and convicted rapist has had the district attorney and all of the sitting 19th JDC judges recuse themselves from his 2024 obscenity case, court records show. Nelson Dan Taylor, 45, was arrested in October 2024 for allegedly exposing himself to a...

Roishetta Ozane and her daughter Kamea, residents of the industrial corridor in Louisiana known as “Cancer Alley,” are taking their fight for environmental justice directly to the boardrooms of America’s most powerful banks and fossil fuel companies. Stretching along the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New...

The new gulf coast passenger train between New Orleans and Mobile now includes Baton Rouge – by bus. Amtrak and Greyhound have partnered to bring people between New Orleans and the state capital twice a day.

William Baker of Baton Rouge was arrested by Louisiana State Police Insurance Fraud and Auto Theft Unit for staging a motor vehicle crash and filing false public records.

A baggie of heroin was found during the execution of a search warrant in a Baton Rouge hotel room.

Sgt. Caleb Eisworth, a 23-year veteran of the Baton Rouge Police Department, died on August 10 after being critically injured in a deliberate attack on June 16 by Gad Black, who intentionally rammed his pickup truck into Eisworth's police motorcycle.

Members of the Edward Livingston Historical Association recently explored the continuity of arguments prominent Southerners used, sometimes 100 years apart, to defend chattel slavery and Jim Crow segregation laws. Dr. Keith M. Finley, an associate professor of history at Southeastern Louisiana University, outlined...

Freshman running back JT Lindsey is in serious trouble with the law as he’s been accused of harboring two murder suspects in his LSU dorm room. With the program still reeling from Kyren Lacy’s legal woes and eventual death, additional matters could need navigating, with Lindsey now being investigated for allowing...

Saying that high schools in the Capital City have fallen behind in what they offer students, East Baton Rouge Parish Superintendent LaMont Cole is pressing to spend $40 million to enhance “the high school experience.”. That “experience” includes student clubs, fine arts, career and technical education as well as...