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Baton Rouge, Louisiana is located in East Baton Rouge Parish. Zip codes in Baton Rouge, LA include 70894, 70807, and 70814. The median home price in Baton Rouge is $169,900. More Baton Rouge information.

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32 min ago | The Daily Advertiser

State officials seek to fill workforce needs

State officials recognize that education is the key to meeting the state's job needs.

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1 hr ago | VentureBeat

Meet Yellow Jacket, an iPhone case stun gun that also charges your phone

Yellow Jacket is a Baton Rouge, La.-based startup that makes an iPhone case that provides safety to not just your phone but also from attackers.

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Wed Jun 19, 2013

WAFB-TV Baton Rouge

Juban Crossing bill being reviewed by Governor Jindal

Overgrown weeds in empty fields and signs promising a target date that has come and gone is not the scenario for Juban Crossing thousands of residents in Livingston Parish had hoped for by now.

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The Advocate

Around Baton Rouge for June 20, 2013

EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH LIBRARY BOARD OF CONTROL: 4 p.m., BREC Administration Building, 6201 Florida Blvd. 231-3700.

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WAFB-TV Baton Rouge

Family of seven survives fire that destroys duplex

A Baton Rouge couple and their five children are safe and are thankful they survived a fire that destroyed their home early Wednesday morning.

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Zachary Plainsman News

RACZ presents special performance of The Broadway Boys

The Regional Arts Council of Zachary invites businesses and community members to mark their calendars for a remarkable one-night performance by The Broadway Boys on Saturday, Aug. 31. Having captured the attention of audiences in New York City, the Boys have taken their show across the country offering high-energy performances with the hottest male ... (more)

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The Advocate

Baton Rouge judge strikes down parts of state's juvenile gun law

A judge on Tuesday struck down several exceptions to Louisiana's ban on juveniles possessing handguns, including a little-known provision allowing youngsters to carry handguns as long as they have written permission from a parent.

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Army Times

La. Guard's top enlisted adviser fired

Army football fans won't have to wait until fall to see if they can break their long dry spell in... BATON ROUGE, LA.

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The Advocate

East Baton Rouge School Board to tackle budget on Thursday

The East Baton Rouge Parish School Board is scheduled Thursday to approve its annual operating budget, but board members remain divided on some of Superintendent Bernard Taylor's proposed spending and cutting plans, as well as what to do with greater than expected state education funding.

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Tue Jun 18, 2013

The Advocate

Police and Fire Briefs for June 19, 2013

Baton Rouge police arrested a 61-year-old man Monday accused of extorting about $60,000 over several years from an 88-year-old man after telling the man the Mexican Mafia would blow up his house and kill him and his family if he did not pay.

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Palladium-Item

Record 'dead zone' foreseen for Gulf of Mexico

Environmental biologists foresee a record-size "dead zone" for the Gulf of Mexico this summer, a New Jersey-sized patch of water deadly to marine life, federal officials announced on Tuesday.

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NOLA.com

Baton Rouge official calls la Swift's plan to end service 'short-sighted'

As the state plans to end LA SWIFT , a bus service that takes passengers between Baton Rouge to New Orleans, Baton Rouge officials have spoken out in support of continuing the program.

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The Advocate

Around Baton Rouge for June 19, 2013

"SPACE JAM": 10 a.m., Manship Theatre, Shaw Center for the Arts, 100 Lafayette St. Every Wednesday in June, the theatre will show an animated children's movie.

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KPLC-TV Lake Charles

LA Senator's "Why I Am a Republican" video generating buzz

A video posted Sunday by a Louisiana lawmaker is picking up steam online, and fueling talk of a new 'conservative superstar' in politics.

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Banner-Tribune

Deaths Elsewhere

Cattle industry promoter SHREVEPORT - Services for cattle industry publicist and promoter Robert "Bob" Felknor will be Thursday.

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WAFB-TV Baton Rouge

Several crashes shut down I-10 East

TV reports there has been a possible explosion in Washington Parish early Tuesday morning.

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KLFY-TV Lafayette

Ex-club owner gets 25 years in rape case

The former owner of the now-defunct House of Blues Club on Airline Highway has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for raping an intoxicated 18-year-old woman in a private room at the Baton Rouge club in 2009.

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WBRZ

Neighbors spring into action at apartment fire

Some quick thinking by neighbors helped save lives in Baton Rouge when a fire tore through the Evangeline Place Apartments.

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Mon Jun 17, 2013

The Advocate

Livingston authorities seek escaped inmate

Livingston Parish sheriff's deputies and Louisiana Workforce LLC searched Monday for an offender who walked away from his work release job Monday morning.

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The Times-Picayune

Gov. Bobby Jindal signs one of two Baton Rouge breakaway school district bills

Sen. Bodi White said he couldn't get the 70 votes to pass Senate Bill 73, a constitutional amendment funding a breakaway school district in East Baton Rouge Parish.

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Flood Warning for East Baton Rouge Parish was issued at June 19 at 8:58PM CDT