Baton Rouge News

There was an announcement Tuesday morning that a full service grocery store will be built in downtown Baton Rouge.

There was an announcement Tuesday morning that a full service grocery store will be built in downtown Baton Rouge.

There was an announcement Tuesday morning that a full service grocery store will be built in downtown Baton Rouge.

Carl Enna, of Little Rock, Ark., says, "Us oldsters are truly excited at this time of "As the comic strip 'Pogo' was as much a part of starting our day then as reading Old Smiley now, sometime soon after Thanksgiving we were gifted with Pogo's Christmas carol.

Randy Rice and Dana Lux visited with JP to talk about the Twin Living Chirstmas Trees.

Baton Rouge police are searching for the man who fired a shot at officers chasing him after he robbed a Jack in the Box restaurant early Monday, a police spokesman said.

Authorities are hoping an autopsy scheduled for Monday will shed some light on the murder investigation of a missing man whose body was found Friday along the Mississippi River.

Marcus Franklin, 31, was discovered dead about a week after he was reported missing in Baton Rouge.

Jury selection was not completed Monday in the computer fraud and aggravated identity theft trial of Murphy J. Painter, former commissioner of the Louisiana Office of Alcohol and Tobacco Control.

Louisiana's 2nd Congressional District looks like a wind-ruffled ribbon that curls from the eastern shore of Lake Pontchartrain through New Orleans, then up the Mississippi River to northern Baton Rouge.

Sheriff's deputies in East Feliciana Parish arrested two men Monday after an armed robbery and high-speed chase ended in a crash.

A 20-year-old Baton Rouge man was arrested in the Hammond Tractor Supply store after being seen staggering in the aisles with a gun.

The East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office arrested a woman for damaging property and resisting arrest after she was accused damaging woman's car.

DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT: 8 a.m., Hilton Capitol Center, Heidelberg Ballroom, 201 Lafayette St. The meeting will focus on downtown events and developments.

December 6, 2013 -- Ross Aviation confirmed that it has acquired the assets and fixed base operation known as Louisiana Aircraft at Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport in Baton Rouge, Louisiana .

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.