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Five people were killed in a four vehicle crash that happened just before 3 a.m. Friday morning.

Five people were killed in a four vehicle crash that happened just before 3 a.m. Friday morning.

Five people were killed Friday morning when a driver going the wrong way crashed into another vehicle on Interstate 10 outside New Orleans.

Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, red light cameras in Baton Rouge shoot and flash.

The Army Corps of Engineers says it's keeping an eye on Mississippi River levees because the river is high.

The Alcohol and Tobacco Control Commissioner says a Baton Rouge bar is not responsible for an accident that killed a bicyclist and left another severely injured.

The OCS girls soccer team didn't go down easy, tying the score early in the first half, but No.

An attorney for former LSU quarterback Jordan Jefferson entered a plea of innocent Thursday on Jefferson's behalf to a charge of misdemeanor simple battery that stems from an Aug.

BATON ROUGE, La.- Louisiana's property insurer of last resort has offered to settle a dispute over slow handling of hurricane claims from 2005 for up to $80 million, with no more than $25 million of that for attorneys' fees.

New Baton Rouge Community College Chancellor Andrea Lewis Miller is taking over the job next week after interim Chancellor Jim Horton wraps up his duties on Friday.

A 21-year-old Baton Rouge man was indicted Wednesday in the shooting death of a Baker man near Southern University.

East Baton Rouge Sheriff's detectives are looking for a couple seen using a stolen credit card that was taken from Beth Claybourn's Interiors on Highland Road on Jan.

Advocate staff photo by JAMES MINTON Annie Chapman, who celebrated her 100th birthday on Dec.

Advocate staff photo by LIBBY ISENHOWER Shawn Dean, 26, is escorted out of Baton Rouge Police Department headquarters Wednesday by police Detective Kwaska Lee.

LSU basketball coach Trent Johnson said he has seen highly ranked forward Ricardo Gathers play more than a hundred times, counting summer AAU games and his high school games at Riverside Academy in the New Orleans area.

Let's clear this up right at the top: The recent increase in gas prices is a matter of indifference... BATON ROUGE, La.

Let's clear this up right at the top: The recent increase in gas prices is a matter of indifference... BATON ROUGE, La.

Jean-Yves Roux, left, and Phillipe Aldon, right, with the French government visit Tuesday with Baton Rouge Foreign Language Academic Immersion Magnet School teacher Christine Merchant and her fourth-grade French class.

Travis Jackson, left, and Ben Johnson watch as a backhoe lifts a phone line near O'Neal Lane recently to see if leads to a manhole, which would indicate whether it is a live or abandoned line.

East Baton Rouge Parish prosecutors told a judge Tuesday they are extremely frustrated with how slowly the post-conviction appeals of condemned killers Allen "Lil Boo'' Robertson Jr.