Baton Rouge News

Buzz Right Back ---- E - M ail a F riend ---- P rint P age According the The Advocate, Evelyn J. Holden, a sister of Mayor-President Kip Holden pleaded guilty this afternoon.

A day after a Northshore man was arrested for running an $11 million Ponzi scheme, a federal grand jury has indicted a Louisiana businessman on charges he defrauded investors out of roughly $19.5 million in what federal prosecutors call a Ponzi scheme that swindled seniors.

A 27-year-old Baton Rouge man has been indicted in the Sept. 4 stabbing death of his former girlfriend at an assisted living facility where she worked.

Baton Rouge Police have arrested an attorney and are looking for another suspect in connection with the alleged rape of a 22-year-old man early Monday morning.

An aerial view shows the Celtic Media Centre in Baton Rouge, where a 30,000-square-foot mill shop being built, at center, will grow studio floor space to the size of a Walmart Supercenter.

Candy Edwards, wife of former Gov. Edwin Edwards, at her home in 2003. Candy Edwards, the ex-wife of former Louisiana Gov.

BATON ROUGE - Louisiana's regional universities might have been stretching the guidelines that control what level courses they teach, says an advisory panel that recommends a review and scaling back of course offerings.

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SLIDELL, La. A man wanted for brutally beating a Covington woman and robbing her was arrested after being picked up panhandling at a Baton Rouge Wal-Mart, according to a statement from St.

BATON ROUGE - Thousands of Louisiana residents are eligible for grants to pay for storm shutters and other hurricane protection improvements to their homes.

BATON ROUGE - Frank G. Pogue begins work today as interim president of Grambling State University seeking solutions to problems that have created division.

Louisiana area. Pet Plaza is located on 4763 Perkins Road, Baton Rouge, LA. Pet Plaza is a salon, hotel and boutique specializing in providing deluxe comfortable care for your pet.

A new program is available in East Baton Rouge and surrounding parishes to help match people with community services so they can stay out of nursing homes.

Mississippi just had one of its wettest Octobers of the past century. The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports the state had an average of 9.64 inches of rain in October.

BATON ROUGE - Louisiana's use of technology in schools and the overall system has brought recognition in a national survey, but state Education Superintendent Paul Pastorek says the best thing is that it keeps students involved in learning.

Louisiana State Troopers working in the Baton Rouge Criminal Investigative Division arrested a Baton Rouge man yesterday following a month-long investigation.

United States Attorney David R. Dugas announced today that EDWARD C. JAMES, age 65, of Baton Rouge, LA was charged in a Bill of Information with violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act and with conspiracy for allegedly accepting or extorting bribes from individuals with pending criminal charges in the Baton Rouge City Court ...

Hotel AG announces today that it has closed the 119- room SpringHill Suites located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

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