Baton Rouge News

NEIGHBORHOOD ARTS PROJECT: 10 a.m., Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church, 9700 Scenic Highway, Scotlandville.

Since officially taking the helm of a divided and downtrodden department one year ago, Baton Rouge Police Chief Carl Dabadie Jr. has spent his time at the top mollifying the troops, gradually lifting what many described as a once-widespread mood of frustration among the rank and file.

Sheriff's deputies on Saturday evening arrested a Baton Rouge man accused of raping a woman after having just met her through a popular social media dating application called Tinder.

An electrical short ignited a fire in a home early Sunday that eventually burned through the roof of the house, the fire department said.

A man was found dead in the front yard of a home after he was allegedly shot by his girlfriend.

Time ran out Wednesday before the Baton Rouge Metro Council could tell gay people to go to hell, but that is clearly what is going to happen at the next meeting in a couple of weeks.

A man who was out of gas on Interstate 10 at Perkins Road in Baton Rouge was struck early Saturday morning is dead, according to the Baton Rouge Police Department.

Three months after Baton Rouge's bus system expanded service and added routes, ridership is up though the agency continues to adjust service.

Gulf Coast Bank has been named to the Independent Community Bankers of America's list of Top 50 Community Bank Leaders in Social Media.

Back home, I put them in a No. 10 tub in my den, but they were in the way all the time.

A Zachary woman is under indictment on state charges that accuse her of defrauding Louisiana's Medicaid program out of thousands of dollars and laundering more than $100,000 through her Baton Rouge personal care company.

Baton Rouge-based Investar Holding Corp., the holding company for Investar Bank, reported second-quarter earnings dipped to $1.1 million, or 26 cents per share, compared to $1.7 million, or 44 cents per share, a year ago.

An arrest has been made in the June 19 fracas outside a Baton Rouge home in which a man was shot in the face while trying to wrest a stick from another man who smashed his car window, causing glass to spray over three infants sitting inside, one of whom was hit with the stick.

Police planned Friday to present their case to prosecutors on whether charges should be filed against an 80-year-old man who fatally shot of one of two burglars who attacked him when he found them ransacking his home.

One suspect has been arrested for his alleged connection to an incident where a man was shot in the face while attempting to protect a child.

Two shopping centers experienced fires caused by blown transformers. Both occurred at within an hour of each other.

The shady Southern pine trees on the outskirts of Shreveport, La., serve as a year-round "New England" set for the television series Salem, one of many shows and movies being filmed in the state.

LSU Health Sciences Center says people with a common, hard-to-treat kind of lung cancer can join a new national trial to test drugs faster.

Facing threats of litigation, the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board on Thursday evening was still debating a new set of maps that would reduce from 11 to nine the number of representatives serving on the School Board starting Jan. 1 The board was voting on new maps, two of which were prepared at the request of board member Craig Freeman.

Advocate staff photo by PATRICK DENNIS --Proponents and opponents of a fairness ordinance crowd into the East Baton Rouge Metro Council chambers hoping to speak during the regularly-scheduled Metro Council meeting Wednesday night.