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ZACHARY — Bus drivers working for a private company that transports students in the Zachary School District are dealing with maintenance problems and broken air conditioning on some buses, according to the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1546. The union represents drivers employed by First Student, the private company

ZACHARY, La. (WAFB) - A union representing school bus drivers has filed a workplace safety complaint with OSHA over reports of broken air conditioning units and equipment failures on buses operated by contractor First Student in the Zachary Community School District. Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1546, which represen

BATON ROUGE — More than five months after being injured in the Mall of Louisiana shooting, Donnie Guillory returned to the soccer field. Guillory joined friends and teammates with the Baton Rouge Soccer Club's Unified Team, a program dedicated to athletes with special needs. He has been part of...

BAKER — The Baker Police Department is asking for the public's help in finding two missing teenage girls. Ka'leeaha Jones, 15, and Skylar Baker, 16, were both last seen in the area of Chemin Drive and Groom Road in Baker. Jones was last seen wearing black shorts and a...

First responders say no one was hurt after a driver slammed into a home on Lorraine Street in Baton Rouge on Friday, Sept. 28.

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The East Baton Rouge Council on Aging has fired two employees of its Meals on Wheels program following the alleged mishandling of 17 Meals on Wheels boxes, valued at approximately $1,000. The agency has reported the matter to the Baton Rouge Police Department and said...

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BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office is asking for help identifying the two male suspects believed to be involved in a vehicle burglary in Pelican Lakes. The burglary happened on September 24, when two suspects were caught on surveillance entering an unlocked car. A...

BATON ROUGE — The Metro Council has approved $500,000 to move a Baton Rouge Police Department precinct to Third Street, where street fights drew attention over the summer. BRPD Chief T.J. Morse said the plan to establish a downtown precinct had been in the works long before the fights and the controversy around them.

BATON ROUGE - Fire investigators are working to determine what started a fire at a vacant home along North 47th Street. The fire was reported around 3 p.m. at a home along North 47th near its intersection with Jonah Street. Photos from the scene showed the roof of the abandoned...