Video of the incident appears to show Courtney Scott striking Walter "Geno" McLaughlin in the face with a metal folding chair ...

The heat index, which is what the temperature feels like to the human body, is expected to reach extreme levels on the July ...

Couhig took office in 2013, after the parish transitioned from the police jury system to a home-rule charter plan of ...

4TH OF JULY CONCERT: 7 p.m., Main Library at Goodwood, 7711 Goodwood Blvd. The Baton Rouge Concert Band will perform a ...

A two-year-old Baton Rouge boy died from injuries sustained in a one-vehicle accident shortly after noon on Tuesday. The ...

Governors typically use the line-item veto to punish wayward legislators. But Jeff Landry approach to eliminate road and ...

The 144-foot-wide by 35-foot-high brick wall could become be a backdrop for Lafayette festivals and community events.

CC’s, which marks 30 years in business this year, will open a location just north of Interstate 10 in the Destination Pointe ...

Southern Lab has hired one of its former star players, Krystal Huggins Flowers, as its girls basketball coach. Flowers takes over for her former SLHS teammate Quianna Chaney, who is moving to college ...

Another option is to use a plastic bucket, such as an old 5-gallon paint bucket or any plastic container about that size. Use ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Sean "Diddy Combs was convicted of a prostitution-related offense but acquitted Wednesday of sex trafficking ...

Upon investigation into a fatal shooting in Abbeville that left one man dead, a teenager was arrested on murder charges. The ...