Baton Rouge News

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.

Terrance A. Thornton, 21, recently spent more than 500 consecutive days in East Baton Rouge Parish Prison before his release in late September, about two weeks after he pleaded guilty in the February 2012 robbery and shooting of Thomas Loupe, son of Metro Councilman Chandler Loupe.

A state district court judge on Friday increased the bail for two Port Allen men who now face more serious allegations in the sexual abuse of a 12-year-old girl, according to records released by the 18th Judicial District Court.

COMPOST BIN AND RAIN BARREL SALE: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Memorial Stadium, 1702 Foss St. Discounted backyard compost bins or rain barrels will be available for sale.

It's just more than an hour after classes finished at Westdale Elementary on Dec. 5, but there's handful of classrooms down one science and English hallway that are anything but empty.