Think these things only happen in Florida? Think again. A Louisiana woman captured another’s rogue attempt at moving an alligator.
'It is never too late to encourage students to actively participate and help create the pathway that best suits their unique needs.'
Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome signed a parish-wide Emergency Disaster Declaration on February 15, 2021.
The Executive Order will be effective on June 12 and will be in effect for 90 days.
Holden Matthews, 21, faces three counts of simple arson of a religious building in connection with the fires set within a 10-day span.
Old photos show Baton Rouge police officers, including one who is still serving, who wore blackface for drug and prostitution stings.
Officer Dustin Johnson found the infant turning blue, unable to breathe with an obstructed windpipe.
Find out where the registered sex offenders are living in Baton Rouge before the kids go out trick or treating.
No, it wasn’t a Halloween display. A gator really did crawl up on a Louisiana porch. But what happened to the person wearing the sneakers?
The "brutally abused​" boy escaped through a wooded area to a house in Sulphur when he was taken out of handcuffs to use the bathroom.
Sterling was shot to death outside a convenience store during a struggle with two Baton Rouge police officers.
Sterling was killed by a police officer during a struggle outside a convenience store in 2016.
"We will have the gumbo ready for him when he gets out," the man's niece said.
"The emotions are extremely high," a lawmaker said. "A lot of people are kind of blowing it up."
A federal judge in Baton Rouge refused to toss a lawsuit against Iberia Parish Sheriff Louis Ackal and a deputy over 2014 in-custody death.
Pledges were forced to drink to excess on the night before Maxwell Gruver's death, during a game called "Bible Study," witnesses told cops.
It was the fourth shooting in the area since July — the second fatal shooting — but investigators aren't sure whether they're related.
Pledges at the Phi Delta Theta house were grilled on questions about the fraternity the night before​ Maxwell Gruver died, police said.
The officer was responding to a report around 10 p.m. Sunday that someone had a gun at a Big Boy store.
Body camera footage showed the boy's father had his hands raised inside his vehicle when gunshots rang out following a car chase.
"His family didn't teach him that," his aunt Kerrie Highley​ said Wednesday. "None of us feel that way."
A homeless man and a dishwasher were shot on separate days by a gunman in a car. Police said the attacks might have been racially motivated.
In both shootings, the gunman fired from a car, walked up to the victims as they lay on the ground and fired again multiple times.
The two shootings were also carried out in "similar ways," officials said.
The lawsuit says DeRay Mckesson oversaw a protest that "turned into a riot," did nothing to calm the crowd and incited violence.
The report says Long also left a suicide note saying he needed to punish "bad cops."
The family says the shooting fit a pattern of racist behavior and excessive force by its police force.