Neighbors have identified a 73-year-old woman found dead inside her Metairie home after a two-alarm fire Friday morning.

A trio of Baton Rouge teenagers have been indicted as adults on murder charges tied to a double shooting earlier this year ...

Campus police also ticketed Black drivers more often than white motorists who were stopped, a first-of-its-kind analysis of ...

Early Thursday morning, a Baton Rouge district judge held a bond hearing for Caleb McCray, during which conditions were set.

One of the men accused of being connected to the hazing death of Southern University student Caleb Wilson appeared in court ...

After returning from the Vietnam War in 1973, William "Bill" Johnson became the first Black officer in the Zachary Police ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - William “Bill” Johnson was known for being a man of many words. But to his wife, Gloria Johnson, he ...

Authorities in New Orleans are expressing confidence they will apprehend the remaining seven of 10 escaped inmates on the loose as they increase the reward for information on the whereabouts of the ...

Columbus State University has announced the selection of Debra Kennedy as the new leader of its University Police Department. Kennedy, who has dedicated over thirty years to the Columbus Police ...

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Former East Baton Rouge Parish Mayor-President Kip Holden passed away on Wednesday at the age of 72, leaving behind his wife Lois, five children, and two sisters.

He was 72. Holden was born and raised in Baton Rouge. He was a graduate of both LSU and Southern University. He began his lifetime of service as a journalist working in both radio and television ...