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Looking for a free fall festival near Baton Rouge to add to your family’s October calendar? 🎃🍂 The City of Walker Fall Festival & Gospel Concert is bringing an evening full of fall fun, live music, food, and activities for the whole family to Sidney Hutchinson Park in Walker, Louisiana, on Friday, October 17, 2026.

BATON ROUGE — A judge says that East Baton Rouge Parish School District Superintendent LaMont Cole can leave the state pending his trial on bribery and corruption charges tied to a wider state probe of corruption in the East Baton Rouge Parish government. Cole's more lenient bond conditions were...

BATON ROUGE - One person was injured in a shooting on Y.A. Tittle Avenue, officials said. The call came in around 9:13 p.m., with officials responding to a reported gunshot wound victim. The Baton Rouge Police Department said that the injured person drove themself to the hospital. Officials with the...

BATON ROUGE, La. (CONSUMER REPORTS) - If your grocery bill is getting harder to manage, you’re not alone. Some shoppers are relying on credit cards or Buy Now, Pay Later plans to cover groceries – and then struggling to pay them off, making matters worse. Consumer Reports is here to help with simple ways to spend less

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PLAQUEMINE — Two people wanted in connection with a stolen wire investigation in Iberville Parish were arrested Friday, officials said. According to the Iberville Parish Sheriff's Office, an investigation into the theft of a large quantity of wire from a local business initially led deputies to arrest 57-year-old Bobby

BATON ROUGE — The Baton Rouge Police Department has arrested five people on drug dealing charges after raiding a home along Sherwood Street. According to police, officers executed a search warrant on Wednesday and seized fentanyl, synthetic marijuana, pressed fentanyl pills and cash. BRPD arrested the following people

Faun Reese always put other people before herself, family members say. So they weren’t surprised when she went into social work, receiving her master's degree from LSU in 1997. “She was a caring person,” said Reese’s younger sister Heidi Candler. Now her family is left grieving her...

A man who was arrested last month for allegedly assaulting a female college student is now facing more rape charges from a separate incident, Baton Rouge police say. Elijah Clyde, 24, is already being held in the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on counts of third-degree rape, sexual battery, theft and unauthorized use o

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