Gardere News

East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff's deputies are investigating a deadly shooting that happened early Monday morning in the Gardere area.

A teenager was gunned down Sunday night about a block from his home in the Gardere area of Baton Rouge.

A man and two boys have been arrested in connection with a string of car break-ins in south Baton Rouge.

It has been known as a hot spot for drugs and shootings for years. But East Baton Rouge Sheriffs Deputies are hoping to give Gardere a cleaner image.

An artista s rendering shows the proposed Pinnacle development in south Baton Rouge along the Mississippi River.

A massive project in the works for the Gardere-River Road area could take longer than expected to get off the ground.

Advocate staff photo by BETTINA HANSEN/ Bucky Richard, left, and John Hill, both with AT&T, splice telephone cables recently for Cypress Park near Terrace Avenue and 18th Street.

The East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office tackled more than a dozen murder cases in 2008 and nearly half of those killings were in the Gardere Lane area.

As more spanish-speaking people migrate to south Louisiana, law enforcement officers are finding themselves at a loss.