Holden News

An early morning fire in Livingston Parish is blamed for killing a 24 year old woman.

Officials say a 23-year-old Holden woman died in an apartment fire. State Fire Marshal Butch Browning said 46-year-old Daniel Hymel told fire officials that he and his girlfriend, Devon Elizabeth Griggs, were asleep in the second-story apartment on La.

Authorities say a 17-year-old was arrested for allegedly breaking into a business early Tuesday morning.

The Metro Council held its first hearing today on Mayor Kip Holden's proposed 2010 budget for East Baton Rouge Parish.

Mayor-President Kip Holden is not planning to bring back another bond issue proposal at this time, making the announcement at the Baton Rouge Apartment Association's monthly luncheon this afternoon.

Alyica Owens died when the car her friend was driving ran off the road and hit a tree.

A crime that shocked a community was caught on camera and it didn't take Livingston deputies long to find their suspect.

A possible no-bid contract for the New Orleans-based Audubon Nature Institute to run a proposed tourist attraction in Baton Rouge is one of several unresolved issues concerning the controversial $225 million project slated for a Nov.

Louisiana State Police investigated a single-vehicle serious injury crash this morning shortly before 6:30 am on LA 441 in Livingston Parish.

The Capital Region Legislative Delegation could be looking at a less-intimidating funding request for Alive.

Crews were cleaning up mud and broken asphalt yesterday after a deluge from a burst water main swept cars down streets, forced people out of their homes and flooded a section of a major Los Angeles boulevard.

With the massive wildfire burning north of Los Angeles more than half contained, hand crews were working Sunday to keep the fire's eastern flank from crossing a rural mountain highway, a U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman said.

A man shot his estranged wife and son to death and critically wounded his pregnant daughter-in-law inside a rural Louisiana home, authorities said.

Investigators have begun the autopsies for the three relatives all killed at the hands of their family member.

A 23-year-old motorist who ran a stop sign Monday near Hammond, killing a Slidell woman and injuring three others, will be booked with negligent homicide when he is released from the hospital, State Police said.

A two-vehicle accident in Tangipahoa Parish has claimed the life of a 26-year-old Slidell woman.

There is new information about a murder-suicide that claimed four lives in Holden Saturday night.

President Barack Obama's environmental adviser Van Jones has resigned after becoming embroiled in a controversy over past inflammatory statements.

HOLDEN, La. - A man shot his estranged wife, son and 2-year-old grandson to death and critically wounded his pregnant daughter-in-law at their rural Louisiana home, then killed himself as police tried to pull over his car 20 minutes later, authorities said.

White House environmental adviser Van Jones has resigned in the face of what he's calling a "vicious smear campaign." A White House spokesman says Jones stepped down because he didn't want to "get in the way" of the president's agenda.