Baton Rouge News

A judge on Tuesday struck down several exceptions to Louisiana's ban on juveniles possessing handguns, including a little-known provision allowing youngsters to carry handguns as long as they have written permission from a parent.

Army football fans won't have to wait until fall to see if they can break their long dry spell in... BATON ROUGE, LA.

The East Baton Rouge Parish School Board is scheduled Thursday to approve its annual operating budget, but board members remain divided on some of Superintendent Bernard Taylor's proposed spending and cutting plans, as well as what to do with greater than expected state education funding.

Baton Rouge police arrested a 61-year-old man Monday accused of extorting about $60,000 over several years from an 88-year-old man after telling the man the Mexican Mafia would blow up his house and kill him and his family if he did not pay.

Environmental biologists foresee a record-size "dead zone" for the Gulf of Mexico this summer, a New Jersey-sized patch of water deadly to marine life, federal officials announced on Tuesday.

As the state plans to end LA SWIFT , a bus service that takes passengers between Baton Rouge to New Orleans, Baton Rouge officials have spoken out in support of continuing the program.

"SPACE JAM": 10 a.m., Manship Theatre, Shaw Center for the Arts, 100 Lafayette St. Every Wednesday in June, the theatre will show an animated children's movie.

A video posted Sunday by a Louisiana lawmaker is picking up steam online, and fueling talk of a new 'conservative superstar' in politics.

Cattle industry promoter SHREVEPORT - Services for cattle industry publicist and promoter Robert "Bob" Felknor will be Thursday.

TV reports there has been a possible explosion in Washington Parish early Tuesday morning.

The former owner of the now-defunct House of Blues Club on Airline Highway has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for raping an intoxicated 18-year-old woman in a private room at the Baton Rouge club in 2009.

Some quick thinking by neighbors helped save lives in Baton Rouge when a fire tore through the Evangeline Place Apartments.

Livingston Parish sheriff's deputies and Louisiana Workforce LLC searched Monday for an offender who walked away from his work release job Monday morning.

Sen. Bodi White said he couldn't get the 70 votes to pass Senate Bill 73, a constitutional amendment funding a breakaway school district in East Baton Rouge Parish.

State Superintendent of Education John White on Monday renewed his criticism of East Baton Rouge Parish School District officials moving students to bolster schools at troubled public schools.

Mark Stoops has an eye for talent. In less than seven months as Kentucky's football coach, he has made significant inroads in recruiting.

The Louisiana State Penitentiary Museum Foundation will induct seven people into the Louisiana Justice Hall of Fame in ceremonies July 12 at the prison museum and in Baton Rouge.

This photo provided by Ryan Meador shows an explosion at The Williams Companies Inc. plant in the Ascension Parish town of Geismar La., Thursday, June 13, 2013.

Both prosecutors and defense lawyers say House Bill 371 is a historic sea change in the way criminal trials are handled in Louisiana.

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