Baton Rouge News

Edwin Chastang, vice principal of Southeast Middle School in Baton Rouge, was released on a $20,000 bond.

EAST BATON ROUGE SCHOOL BOARD: 5 p.m., Central Office, 1050 S. Foster Drive. The board will hold a public hearing on reapportionment.

Members of Metro Council will have to give the final approval to pay $495,000 to settle a wrongful death lawsuit over an officer-involved shooting where a drunken man was shot and killed in 2011.

A reporter for The Advocate who wrote a recent article about the unsolved 1985 slaying of Baton Rouge lawyer Joel Porter's wife can't be forced to testify in Porter's defamation lawsuit against a detective quoted in the article, the reporter's attorney argued to a federal magistrate Wednesday.

A lot of items are on the council agenda, but one of the most controversial is the Fairness Ordinance that focuses on protecting sexual orientation, like race, when it comes to hiring and housing.

A Sulphur woman was shot in the face after allegedly trying to hit a Calcasieu Parish Sheriff's deputy with her car.

Mike Caldwell today announced his intention to seek reelection to Division I of the 19th Judicial District Court.

WMC Action News 5's Nick Kenney took the new information Twenty toothbrushes, eight flash drives, four guns, nipple clamps, sex toys, lingerie: those are just a few of the items seized from the property of a Memphis businessman charged with rape.

There are not many people who know why September 19 is significant, but a Baton Rouge man is focused on making people aware.

A Monday night shooting in the 5500 block of St. Gerard Street left a 23-year-old man with gunshot wounds to his upper and lower torso, but his injuries are not considered life threatening.

A vice principal at Southeast Middle School was arrested Tuesday after admitting to investigators he sent nude pictures of himself via Facebook to a 15-year-old one night while he was drunk.

Advocate staff photo by TRAVIS SPRADLING -- Louisiana led all U.S. states in the value of industrial construction projects during 2013 and was ranked second overall for all commercial construction, Projects like the Methanex methanol plant in Geismar are driving activity.

Officials with the Baton Rouge Fire Department say an adult jumped from a window of an apartment complex to escape a fire that started just after 1:30 p.m. Firefighters rescued 13 people from the fire that evacuated a building at Savoy Plaza Apartments, located at 520 Wooddale Boulevard, near Florida Blvd. Three of the 13 who were rescued were ... (more)

Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based Premier Sound Services recently provided the sound reinforcement for the Miss USA Pageant, one of the country's most widely viewed beauty contests.

An environmental study commissioned by the Baton Rouge Area Foundation found that five out of six of the Baton Rouge Lakes are too shallow, confirming the need to dredge the lakes to prevent them from reverting to swampland.

Two Baton Rouge men pleaded guilty Tuesday to federal drug charges stemming from an extensive probe - dubbed Operation I Spy - into an alleged cocaine trafficking network operating in the Baton Rouge region.

The Senate Tuesday unanimously confirmed John deGravelles as a federal District Judge in Baton Rouge.

Organizers of the St. George movement said they did not get enough signatures to ask voters in November to incorporate the proposed city.

Bars in New Orleans that allow smoking are being encouraged to prohibit it this week as part of an effort to measure support for the idea of banning smoking.

The Baton Rouge Police Department said the shooting happened on St. Gerard Avenue at McClelland Drive.