Baton Rouge News

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.

Tony Coleman and his coworkers at the Department of Louisiana Veteran's Affairs provided a tour of their service office on North Boulevard Monday.

Baton Rouge police arrested two men Monday afternoon in the fatal hit-and-run of a 45-year-old man Sunday night, a police spokesman said.

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries has increased the reward to $20,000 for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for shooting the two whooping cranes found in Jefferson Davis Parish on Feb. 7. The whooping cranes were found near the corner of Compton Road and Radio Tower Road just ... (more)

The 2014 session of the Louisiana Legislature convened at noon with lawmakers expected to take up a range issues from medial marijuana to educational standards before the session ends by 6 p.m. June.

Eight months after a deadly plane took the life of pilot John Fowler of Mississippi, residents on Rue Jennifer in Baker are relieved to see one of the homes destroyed by the crash is finally being torn down.

A pregnant woman and her boyfriend were arrested on drug and property damage charges after an incident at a hotel over the weekend.

The last two Desperado's employees charged in the federal drug and prostitution case have indicated they'll plead guilty.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal addresses the state Legislature during the opening session March 12, 2012, in Baton Rouge.

Deputies on Sunday arrested a Greenwell Springs man accused of accepting $3,500 cash for a home improvement job in January, only to blow the money on a cocaine habit without completing the contracted work.

More than 170 soldiers from the 205th Engineer Battalion of the Louisiana National Guard received the War Cross Medal for their service overseas Sunday at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Baton Rouge.

Advocate staff photo by RICHARD ALAN HANNON -- Officials with the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Service Office have complained to the Metro Council that its building at 4560 North Boulevard is in "deplorable conditions," on Friday in Baton Rouge.

Outgoing PJAL President Melvin Haymon of Vernon Parish hosted the convention. The new president is Lisa Nelson of St. Martin Parish.

When they crossed the finish line together Saturday morning clad in identical pink shirts and clutching matching pink flowers, sisters Teal Wintz and Angela Watts smiled.

A rescue van drove all through the night to deliver seven dogs to Stray Rescue of St. Louis, Mo.

HABITAT HOME EXPO: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Baton Rouge River Center, 275 S. River Road.

When jail inmate William "Billy" Bates Colvin's mother expressed concern about bringing her son face wash last year, he told her not to worry, saying the guards at the Pointe Coupee Parish Jail never search him after he meets with visitors.

"I would rather address the problem on the front end rather than on the back end, because we're not going to adopt our way out of this mess."