Baton Rouge News

Advocate staff photo by BRYAN TUCK -- A project to widen U.S. 90 to six lanes from Albertson's Parkway to Ambassador Caffery Parkway is set to begin in late July in Lafayette Parish.

St. George organizers have just ten more days to collect the needed 18,000 signatures to put the proposed city of St. George to a vote.

One year after Baton Rouge began funding a modest program to bus homeless people back to their families - most to cities in other states - funding has been doubled to $10,000 and homeless advocates are calling the program a success.

At 7 a.m. local time Sunday, 144 American citizens waiting to evacuate the Gaza Strip boarded buses at a United Nations compound and headed for the border with Israel.

Baton Rouge Police are searching for the man they say may be responsible for a deadly shooting that took place early Saturday morning.

An electrical short likely sparked a fire Saturday night in the attic of a home on Andover Street, the Baton Rouge Fire Department said.

It's been six years since state legislation created an agency to address blight and redevelopment in north Lafayette, and it may finally be coming to life.

A West Feliciana Parish elementary teacher took top honors as Louisiana's teacher of the year at an awards ceremony for outstanding educators Saturday at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Baton Rouge.

DETAILS: Help fill school buses with school supplies, such as pencils, pens, construction paper, composition notebooks, color pencils, markers, rulers, scissors, index cards, glue sticks and spiral notebooks.

Kyle Hamilton's first fishing trip to the Panhandle with his family on the Full Draw was deemed a success.

Jurors deliberated for less than 90 minutes Friday evening before convicting a St. Landry Parish man on five counts of vehicular homicide in the fiery Interestate 10 crash that killed five Ascension Parish people in March 2010.

Drivers who frequent Essen Lane will need to consider taking another route later this month as railroad construction will close the road for a weekend.

FARMER'S MARKET: 8 a.m., Main Street Market, corner of 5th and Main streets. This week's market will include a cooking demonstration by Chef Don Bergeron.

Sheriff's deputies arrested a 43-year-old Baker man for forcing a 7-year-old girl to perform oral sex on him on July 1. The 7-year-old's family thought they were dropping off their child at 4212 Rue Splendeur, Baker, where a 14-year-old girl was supposed to could baby-sit the child for a few hours, according to the arrest warrant.

The East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office reports 65 percent of people who are contacted by alleged schemers over the telephone fall prey.

Two men suspected of raping children were arrested in East Feliciana Parish on Thursday, and police say two more men are wanted in connection to the case.

A December 2013 image from the web site of Uber, a mobile application-based, car-for-hire service that is now operational in Baton Rouge.

Looking at you, Louisiana products. These are happening now. Also: I expect to see and report on more new products from our state next month, when there are usually debuts at the Louisiana Restaurant Show.

Travis Jones, 22 of 1860 Blvd De Province, was the Baton Rouge man shot to death Thursday night in the 200 block of South 17th Street, police announced at 9:05 a.m. Friday.

A Louisiana Supreme Court decision reaffirmed in May 2014 has revived a sex abuse lawsuit in which parents are suing a priest and a Baton Rouge Catholic diocese for not reporting the alleged abuse when the teenager confessed to the priest about it.