Category Archives: Local News

The Baton Rouge Area Chamber (BRAC) updated its preliminary analysis of the potential magnitude of the flooding on the Baton Rouge Area, based on new information from East Baton Rouge.

The ribbon has been cut and the doors are now open at a new 21st Century school on Fort Benning. The new McBride Elementary School was officially dedicated in a ceremony on Tuesday. 

A grieving mother and pastor honor the life of a beloved Columbus man with autism, who died in the hospital Saturday, after being beaten and robbed. 

For years, Wanda Witter has lived on the streets in Washington, D.C., trying to persuade officials that Social Security owes her more than $100,000. For years, the 80-year-old woman says people dismissed her as crazy.

 There’s no more free KFC Extra Crispy Sunscreen left. Earlybirds went and got it all, so now you can only pay exorbitant prices for it on eBay.

A young kitten accidentally went on a ride-along in the engine of a CSU Police officer’s truck and lived to meow about it. 

The Stephenson Disaster Management Institute at LSU pulled together data to create a map that gives a good scope of Louisiana’s flooding.

 A former Lee County sheriff’s deputy has been arrested and indicted on child pornography charges. 

A man convicted of a deadly shooting at a gas station in 2014 learned his fate on Tuesday. 

Savannah residents in the Carver Heights neighborhood are keeping an extra eye on their children after an 11-year-old girl was attacked and raped on Monday afternoon in an abandoned house in the 1000 block of Cubbedge Street.