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Country musician Jay DeMarcus of the music group Rascal Flatts performs in LSU's Tiger Stadium during Bayou Country Superfest on Sunday, May 27, 2012.

Three Zachary women are charged with Medicaid fraud, each accused of filing false claims.

Lawmakers have another chance to do the right thing Tuesday when the House of Representatives considers a bill that would allow tens of thousands of uninsured residents to use Medicaid money to buy private insurance.

Advocate staff photo by RICHARD ALAN HANNON -- Geoff Allen pets his cat Tigger. Allen was shot in the hand and head while protecting the cat.

Police say 27 year-old Andres Gonzalez punched Raphael Domino Jr. while the two fought at Club End Zone on Plank Road on May 5th.

An incident at a gas station has captured the attention of a man producing a documentary on violence in Baton Rouge.

The St. Bernard Art Guild will have its open art show June 9 at the St. Bernard Parish Council Chambers of the St.

A top official of the state Department of Education lives in Los Angeles and commutes to his office in Baton Rouge.

Nursing homes owner ALEXANDRIA - Services for former Louisiana Nursing Home Association president Finley C. Matthews, Jr.

"As those figures, the sales tax revenue began to decline and the number of people in the parish, our spending needed to come into check," says District 2 school board member Neil Henderson.

Portions of the movie "My Own Lovesong" were shot at Lake Buhlow in Pineville in 2008.

The state Department of Education says 35 organizations have submitted applications to start about 100 new charter schools in 19 parishes.

When he was a child growing up in Terrytown, arts and crafts projects were a part of every holiday for Mitch Rotolo.

LSU men's golf team qualified for the NCAA Championship with a strong final-round showing at the NCAA's Baton Rouge Regional Saturday.

When surveying the current legislative session in Baton Rouge a number of questions leap to mind.

Did you know that Sheree Harris won a red 2013 Chevy Camaro on Wednesday? Probably not.

They saw each other for only two or three months in 1975. But Hoan and Len Nguyen and their extended family never stopped thinking about Jack and Annette Briggs.

On Monday May 18th, 2013, WVLA NBC reported, "three people, including a teenager, were sent to the hospital on Mother's Day after they were attacked at a local gas station.

The state's highest court Friday let stand a Baker man's manslaughter conviction and 40-year prison term in the 2009 stabbing death of his wife, lawyer Chiquita Tate, in her downtown Baton Rouge office.

Louisiana lawmakers are considering multiple pieces of legislation relating to K-12 and higher education issues.