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An environmental group blasted Gov. John Bel Edwards' trade-focused trip to Asia this week, condemning the Japanese and Korean firms he's meeting with for their ties to industries blamed by → Read More
Gov. John Bel Edwards on Tuesday endorsed Shawn Wilson's campaign for Louisiana governor, saying the longtime transportation official will bridge partisan divides and has the government know-how to confront the → Read More
One man accused of shooting and killing another in December after the pair got into a physical fight inside a market on Dougherty Drive has been arrested, Baton Rouge police → Read More
Gov. John Bel Edwards is urging lawmakers to budget hundreds of millions of dollars for K-12 teacher pay hikes — a central policy pitch of his that would rocket Louisiana → Read More
Amid two years of surging bloodshed, Baton Rouge poured resources into grassroots efforts that sought to mediate conflicts before they explode into violence — initiatives that local officials strongly credit → Read More
A grand jury has charged a 17-year-old as an adult for the assault of Madison Brooks in the hours before the LSU student's death last month, indicting him on first-degree → Read More
A North Louisiana police officer faces criminal charges for shooting an unarmed Black man dead as he ran from police responding to a domestic abuse call, Louisiana State Police officials → Read More
When an employee of his Baton Rouge auto shop was slow to repay a mounting debt in 2018, Kevin Dukes shot him dead, wrapped the body in a tarp and → Read More
After being arrested in two separate rape cases including the case of LSU student Madison Brooks and a juvenile victim in Livingston Parish, 18-year-old Kaivon Washington now faces charges in → Read More
A man was found shot dead inside a car on Greenwell Springs Road Friday afternoon, authorities say. → Read More
Three men from Washington state and two from Baton Rouge have been arrested for murder and other crimes related to a drug-heist-turned-shootout that left one dead and two wounded at → Read More
A Livingston Parish man shot four dogs dead during a domestic altercation in which he also assaulted someone and endangered a child, deputies allege. → Read More
In the coming months, prosecutors are expected to argue that LSU student Madison Brooks was raped by two men as two more looked on after she left Tigerland on a → Read More
A vast majority of sexual assault cases never result in police complaints and fewer still are prosecuted in court. → Read More
A state law aimed at empowering people with felony convictions to serve on juries, restoring a constitutional right that had been stripped from them for decades, has not been executed at a swath of courts across Louisiana, bringing proceedings to a halt as attorneys argue their clients’ trials are unconstitutional. → Read More
Two men died in a barrage of bullets early Monday when someone opened fire as they sat in a car outside a Waffle House off of Interstate 10 — a → Read More
Attorneys for the young men accused of raping an LSU student before she was fatally struck by a car sought Friday to cast doubt on physical evidence in the case → Read More
Louisiana's governor has denied the clemency request of a man jailed for plotting the murder of Barry Seal, a drug runner and federal informant who worked to bring down Colombian → Read More
As Samantha Brennan pored over the details of Madison Brooks’ recent rape and death after a night in Tigerland, she was struck by the similarities between her own case from → Read More
A grand jury will decide whether three men and a 17-year-old should face more serious charges for their alleged roles in the rape of Madison Brooks, an LSU student from → Read More