Baton Rouge News

Advocate staff photo by HEATHER MCCLELLAND -- Gary Patureau, left, Baton Rouge Police Sgt.

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana -- Rapper Torence "Lil Boosie" Hatch has been ordered to perform 100 hours of community service in New Orleans as part of his four-year probation term stemming from a 2009 guilty plea to a marijuana possession charge.

"PEPITO'S STORY - DEBBIE ALLEN DANCE RESIDENCY": 7 p.m., Manship Theatre, Shaw Center for the Arts, 100 Lafayette St. The performance follows the title character's dream to dance.

Advocate staff photo by Marsha ShulerState Rep. Kenny Cox, D-Natchitoches, leans in to talk with House Retirement Committee members state Reps.

When Brenda Irvin's contractions came a minute apart, her fiance called the hospital to alert staff, but the soon-to-be newborn was calling the shots.

Baton Rouge will indeed be the location of the Miss USA 2014 competition, which was first reported by NOLA.com The Times-Picayune yesterday and verified nationally by Donald Trump and the current reigning Miss USA on the Today Show on March 13. The national pageant will be aired June 8, 2014.

A road transfer program between the state Department of Transportation and Development and the East Baton Rouge Department of Public Works is something officials are calling a win-win program.

One of WAFB's news anchors will be speaking at a local business gala this weekend for entrepreneurs and business owners.

A second arrest has been made in a Jan. 22 robbery at an apartment near LSU that resulted in one of the robbery victims leaping from a fourth-story apartment, breaking his back and leg upon landing.

The gunman who killed two hostages during an August standoff at a rural Louisiana bank had been treated several weeks earlier for paranoid schizophrenia at a California hospital after returning to the U.S. from a trip to Yemen, according to a report released Wednesday by the Louisiana State Police.

A 49-year-old man lies in a hospital fighting for his life after being shot during a robbery Tuesday night, while the 16-year-old boy accused of shooting him also lies in a hospital after police found him unconscious in the middle of a street a few blocks from the robbery.

CASA VOLUNTEER ORIENTATION: Noon, Capital Area CASA, 848 Louisiana Ave. Find out how to become a voice for an abused or neglected child while he or she awaits a safe and permanent home.

At the time, Gordon was senior vice president for the John F. Kennedy Performing Arts Center in Washington, D.C. And Allen was, well, Debbie Allen, producer, director, choreographer, dancer, actress.

A Baton Rouge woman hit her ex-boyfriend on the side of the head with a hammer when he forced his way into her apartment Tuesday morning, then had him arrested, sheriff's deputies said.

Authorities hauled 20 people off to jail Tuesday morning following a six-month drug sting.

Authorities hauled 20 people off to jail Tuesday morning following a six-month drug sting.

Following his Boosie Speaks press conference yesterday , Baton Rouge, Louisiana rapper Lil Boosie talked to Complex TV about comparisons to the late Tupac Shakur, his plans to leave Baton Rouge, new music, and more.

Advocate staff photo by ARTHUR D. LAUCK -- Finance Chairman Jim Fannin, D-Jonesboro, is shown in this June 2013 Advocate file photo.

In the first of a series of stories examining health care disparities across the United States, the Los Angeles Times compares Baton Rouge with St. Paul, Minn.'

DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT: 8 a.m., First United Methodist Church, 930 North Blvd. The meeting will address the new CATS bus routes, Creative Bloc, downtown acquisitions and more.