Baton Rouge News

Police have made an arrest in the January 1995 slaying of a Baton Rouge couple who were fatally shot inside an apartment during an apparent robbery.

Supporters of creating a new city of St. George announced Monday they will seek to build six new schools, including a new high school, if they also are successful in creating a new school district named after the proposed new city.

The Baton Rouge Police Department said James Johnson, 39, was arrested early Monday morning on two counts of first-degree murder.

A former LSU football player who turned himself in to authorities in connection with a burglary is out of jail after posting bond.

After class one evening, Dimitrios Kouniaris was crossing the street when he heard a car approaching on his right side.

The National Weather Service is predicting foggy weather and a chance of thunderstorms for the southeastern Louisiana area Sunday night and Monday morning.

"CITY MOUSE/COUNTRY MOUSE" SCHOOL PERFORMANCE: 10:30 a.m., Manship Theatre, Shaw Center for the Arts, 100 Lafayette St. The production is about mice cousins, inspired by the story in Aesop's Fables.

After languishing for several months as mostly boarded-up and unoccupied eyesores, four of the city-parish's old fire stations could soon see new life.

Advocate staff photo by RICHARD ALAN HANNON -- The LSU Earl K. Long Medical Center along Airline Highway in north Baton Rouge is reducing services because of employee attrition as the facility gets closer to its April 15 closure.

For Sunday brunch at Baton Rouge restaurants, you legally must wait until 11 a.m. to get a mimosa or bloody mary - unless you simply want to go to the store and buy the booze yourself.

According to Eldon Ledoux of the St. George Fire Protection District, the St. George Santa Parade and the Jones Creek Area Business Association Christmas Parade have been canceled for Sunday, December 8th.

He began his career in 1973 as a driver, and worked his way through the ranks as an EMT-Basic, EMT-Intermediate, paramedic, dispatcher, district manager and vice president of operations for Central Louisiana, before accepting his current position.

Caddo Dist. Judge Scott Crichton, Louisiana State Supreme Court hopeful, heard their vows at 11 a.m. Thirty minutes later -- a Champagne Brunch to seal the deal.

Anyone familiar with the Baton Rouge Ballet Theatre's production of "The Nutcracker - A Tale from the Bayou" can testify to this fact.

A lawsuit challenging heat conditions on Death Row as unsafe for inmates at the state penitentiary was filed during the thick of Louisiana's hot and humid summer.

GINGERBREAD TEA: 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m., Renaissance Baton Rouge Hotel, 7000 Bluebonnet Blvd. The 4th Annual Baton Rouge General Gingerbread Tea will raise funds for women's and children's programs at the hospital and will feature Santa photos, a silent auction and more.

A Pineville man lost his life in a single vehicular crash in East Baton Rouge on Friday evening.

Ochsner Medical Center-Baton Rouge will hold a groundbreaking ceremony at 10:30 a.m. Monday for the new Ochsner Health Center-Denham Springs at 137 Veterans Blvd. The 12,683-square-foot clinic will feature an urgent care area, 27 exam rooms, primary care services, and laboratory and imaging services.

Holiday MarchA©: Noon to 6 p.m., Addis Community Center, 7520 La. 1 South, Addis.

Sheriff's deputies in Iberville are looking into the possibility that a body found along the Mississippi River was dumped there by a killer.