Baker News

Advocate staff photo by Patrick Dennis/ Keith Patton watches as his adopted children, from left, Angelina, 7, Patrick, 10 months, and ZoA , 9, play on the floor.

Bruce Chaisson,33, of Ethel, was killed in a traffic crash around 10:55 p.m. Thursday night.

Police arrested a Baker man accused of breaking into a church Wednesday night and a residence last month, a Baker Police Department spokesman said.

A survey of nearly 500 local leaders shows that Capital Region businesses are more optimistic about 2010 than they were about this year and they have an even brighter outlook for 2012.

A Crime Stoppers tip has led to the arrest of a man accused of stealing Jeep parts.

Managers of the Baker Trails Apartment Complex on Baker Boulevard say someone lit their dog on fire, and they think it was meant as retaliation.

Two boys were taken to the juvenile detention center Sunday after they allegedly tried to steal a car from a tow yard but got stuck while trying to escape through a nearby field.

A 40-year-old Baton Rouge man was indicted Wednesday in the deaths of his pregnant ex-girlfriend, her unborn child and her younger brother.

A 27-year-old Baton Rouge man was convicted of second-degree murder Wednesday in what a prosecutor called the vigilante-style slaying of another man in 2008.

The Board of Aldermen learned Tuesday night that a city-parish sewer project will bring $4.2 million in rehabilitation work to help eliminate sewer overflows.

Police arrested two women and five men Friday night in an undercover operation involving Internet advertisements for prostitutes, Police Chief Mike Knaps said.

A popular internet site is becoming an invaluable tool for some law enforcement agencies, after two prostitution busts in one month.

Officials backing the parisha s $901 million bond measure applied the full-court press to a crowd of about 65 people gathered Wednesday evening at Mockler Beverage Co.

State, Louisiana's first innovation summit, will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 4:40 p.m. at LSU's Lod Cook Conference Center.

Members of a Comite Drive family said a pack of feral dogs killed their chickens and menaced their horse in two incidents earlier this week.

The Association for Corporate Growth Louisiana will have a seminar on due diligence in mergers, acquisitions and financing at 3 p.m. at the Hilton Baton Rouge Capitol Center.

Drainage problems have a Baker neighborhood in high water. People who live in the Jim Forest subdivision on Chemin Drive off Groom Road say when it rains, it pours.

Baker police have a lot of questions after a 14-year-old student brought a BB-gun to school, two people were shot and no one reported it to them.

SEEKING SUPPORT: Mark Drennen , who served as commissioner of the Division of Administration under Gov.

Editor's Note: The photographs attached to this report were provided by the Ascension Parish Sheriff's Office.