ShotSpotter automatically alerts police when shots are fired. Here's why BRPD chose to end the $400,000 yearly contract.

Mayor Sid Edwards’ plan to shift library funds to police pay and infrastructure hit a snag after a library tax renewal ...

Clifton Earl, 43, considered a large-scale polydrug trafficker in the Baton Rouge area, is still being sought by the ...

Five people face charges after East Baton Rouge deputies seized over 3,000 lethal doses of fentanyl and other illegal drugs ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) – Baton Rouge Police are investigating a fatal shooting. It happened Friday night at 3064 Oswego Street just after 9 p.m. Police said the victim, 37-year-old Robert ...

(TNS) — In Baton Rouge Police Department's first major belt-tightening measure in 2025, Police Chief Thomas Morse Jr. said he's ending a $400,000 annual contract with a company that's provided ...

A Louisiana State Police Lieutenant was arrested by the Baton Rouge Police Department following an off-duty domestic violence incident. Forty-year-old James Jefferson III, of Baton Rouge ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The Baton Rouge Police Department is asking the public for help identifying two people as part of a robbery investigation. According to Capital Region Crime Stoppers ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — A Baton Rouge man accused of rape on LSU’s campus was arrested and charged. An affidavit said LSU police officers were called to a dorm on campus shortly before 3 ...

An East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff's deputy was hit by a car while directing traffic after Super Bowl LIX, and the driver fled the scene, according to the New Orleans Police Department.

But the biggest part of the plan would raise the pay of Baton Rouge Police officers from "among the lowest-paid in the region to highest-paid municipal force in the state of Louisiana." ...