Baton Rouge News

Advocate staff photo by TRAVIS SPRADLING -- New Orleans' Jamie Conerly, left, shakes hands with Baton Rouge's Otobong Umoren, right, after they and Erwinville's Johann Weeks, center, received their Associate of Applied Science in Process Technology degrees, Friday at spring commencement exercises for Baton Rouge Community College students.

Baton Rouge, La.-Where Ignorance is Bliss-If FDR had the same advisors that Barack Obama has, he wouldn't have known that Pearl Harbor had been bombed until media reports filtered back to the mainland.

A woman has been arrested in connection with the armed robbery of a Port Allen pharmacy.

Concealed weapon permits are popular in certain parts of Louisiana, though some locations may surprise you.

Even before the first note of this weekend's Bayou Country Superfest rang through Tiger Stadium, Quint Davis, the event's producer-director, announced that the event will return in 2014.

Texas Brine says it has started extending settlement offers to Assumption Parish residents who have been under an evacuation order since August because of a 15-acre sinkhole.

The Louisiana Office of Student Financial Assistance will hold a "529 Day Call-In Night" 6-9 p.m. Wednesday to answer questions about the state's Student Tuition Assistance and Revenue Trust savings program or to request more information, including enrollment packets.

In 2012, Barack Obama won the vast majority of votes from minority voters in America, including 93% of the black vote.

The Boy Scouts of America's National Council's decision Thursday to allow gay members was met with mixed reaction in the Baton Rouge-based Istrouma Area Council with some leaders seeing the change as positive and others expecting drops in membership and financial support.

The New Orleans Pelicans and New Orleans Saints' wives are teaming up with The David Wesley Foundation, Feed the Children, RPM Productions, and the Miss Universe Organization to collect donations for Oklahoma tornado victims.

The number of nonfarm jobs in Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Lafayette and the state continued to increase in April, but at a slower pace than in previous months, according to figures released Thursday by the Louisiana Workforce Commission.

Baton Rouge police arrested a 28-year-old woman Wednesday accused of beating her three children, ages 2, 4 and 5, with an extension cord on their back, hip, face, chest and arm.

The total operating expense associated with the privatization of nine LSU hospitals will hit $1 billion during the new fiscal year, Commissioner of Administration Kristy Nichols said Thursday.

The destruction in Oklahoma is much worse in person than what we see on television, that's according to one Baton Rouge man who's just returned from Moore.

About a year ago, a burglar broke into Pelican Pawn in Baton Rouge and left with more than two dozen firearms and some jewelry - a haul the store's manager put at about $25,000. The burglar fled the store the same way he entered - through a hole cut in the roof - but not before leaving behind some important clues: two spots of blood at the entry ... (more)

A special East Baton Rouge Parish grand jury was impaneled Thursday to hear evidence in an 18-month-long criminal probe into the awarding of a nearly $200 million state contract for Medicaid claims processing, state prosecutors told a judge.

Chef Rusty Hamlin, left, and Zac Brown at one of the Zac Brown Band's recent 'Eat and Greet' sessions for fans.

James M. Bernhard III has been sentenced to 27 months in prison Thursday for wire fraud in connection with the theft of over $453,000 from his former law firm's trust account.

BATON ROUGE, La. - A tea party-backed attempt to keep Louisiana from using a set of uniform national standards for public school testing will be considered by the state Senate.

For more than 75 years, the Times Picayune has always won the official journal contract from the City of New Orleans.