Robb Hays

A large portion of a new training facility for athletes, being built near the LSU campus, has collapsed.

First Solicitor General Liz Baker Murrill has officially announced her candidacy for Louisiana Attorney General.

Five Louisiana law enforcement officers were charged with state crimes Thursday in the deadly 2019 arrest of motorist Ronald Greene.

The attorney for Andrew Brister, the Louisiana Tech student who hit and killed a man on Ben Hur Road last Saturday, said his client did not realize he was the person responsible until the following morning.

An early morning fire at the Marathon Refinery in Garyville injured two workers, a company spokesman said.

An aspiring model from Baton Rouge is back in Louisiana after being hospitalized in Virginia following a crash that killed two of her friends on her 23rd birthday.

A large cross was erected Friday near the spot where LSU student Allie Rice died one week ago.

While a judge ruled organizers of the proposed City of St. George can not break away from Baton Rouge and form their own city, he did hand them one significant victory.

A hand recount was done Thursday, May 5, in the race for judge in the 19th Judicial District Court. The hand recount confirmed those results.

A Livingston Parish judge Tuesday granted a motion to delay the upcoming trial for Dennis Perkins.

A fisherman rescued the man who fell off I-10 East and into Whiskey Bay following a crash on Friday, March 4.

U.S. Attorney Ronald Gathe confirms his office is currently prosecuting six additional cases of alleged fraud in metro Baton Rouge connected to the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).

A 19-year-old has been arrested in connection to a shooting in Prairieville Tuesday, Feb. 8, according to Sheriff Bobby Webre with the Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office (APSO).

The Louisiana Supreme Court has ruled Baton Rouge City Court Judge Johnell Matthews can remain on the bench despite her age.

The Louisiana Supreme Court has appointed two retired judges to fill the seat of a district court judge who died. District Court Judge Christopher Dassau was found dead inside his home on January 16.

The boy’s father, Kyle Robichaux, says he withdrew both of his sons from the school because of the mask policy.

In a sternly worded 92-page opinion, a federal judge has blasted the Baton Rouge Police Department and one of the top lawyers at the parish attorney’s office, saying they retaliated against a lawyer tied to series of negative press reports about the police department.

A nine-year-old has been suspended from a school located on the LSU campus in Baton Rouge after refusing to wear a mask inside his fourth-grade classroom.

A teenager arrested after a chase across East Baton Rouge Parish on Sunday, Jan. 2, now faces eight counts of simple burglary and two counts of theft of a firearm.

An East Baton Rouge Parish man chased a suspected car burglar for more than 20 miles across the parish early Sunday morning.

The property taxes for U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy have more than tripled after a reassessment of his massive home near the LSU campus in Baton Rouge.

Jurors in the aggravated rape and video voyeurism trial of Melanie Curtin watched a nearly 20-minute video of Curtin allegedly taking part in the 2014 sexual assault of an unconscious woman.

A judge has, for the second time, denied bond in the case of a 75-year-old Livingston parish man charged with first-degree rape and sexual battery

Jason Allen Miller, 53, of Covington, is charged with first-degree rape, false imprisonment, and false impersonation of a police officer. Deputies say Miller confessed to the crimes when he was arrested.

Deputies have charged Ascension Parish Councilman Corey Orgeron and one of his law clients with simple battery after the two got into a physical altercation last week, law enforcement records show.

A federal court judge has ordered multiple Louisiana law enforcement agencies to turn over evidence from the case of River Parishes serial killer Daniel Blank so that evidence can be independently tested for DNA.

Both suspects in the death of Nevaeh Allen will remain in jail for now, after a judge Friday afternoon ordered both must stay locked up until new bond hearings can be held on Monday, Oct. 4.

Michael Lee Jackson will not be getting a new trial after a ruling by a Baton Rouge judge Friday, Oct. 1.

Students who fail to comply with LSU's COVID entry rules face being kicked off campus by the end of the day on Sept. 10, university spokesman Ernie Ballard said.

Livingston Parish President Layton Ricks says he will implement a curfew across that parish late Sunday because of Hurricane Ida.

AT&T cellular customers are starting to be able to use their wireless devices after Hurricane Ida caused some problems for the company.

Livingston Parish President Layton Ricks says he will implement a curfew across that parish late Sunday because of Hurricane Ida.

Three Baton Rouge police officers were injured while working a crash on I-10 early Saturday, August 21, after a suspected drunk driver plowed into the original accident scene.

A man was airlifted to a hospital in serious condition Friday morning after his truck went airborne and knocked out a utility pole before landing on top of another vehicle.

The reported robbery happened on Gray Moss Avenue, in the White Oak Estates subdivision, around 7:30 a.m., East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Casey Hicks said.

The trial for former school teacher Cynthia Perkins, originally scheduled to start in Livingston parish next week, has been postponed.

District Court Judge Erika Sledge has moved up a hearing to decide whether the trial for Cynthia Perkins will still start next Tuesday.

The Louisiana First Circuit Court of Appeal has agreed to allow the upcoming trial for Dennis Perkins to be postponed, allowing his attorney to attend another trial scheduled to start the same day.

The lawyer for Dennis Perkins filed documents Tuesday, asking a higher court to postpone next week’s scheduled start of his client’s high-profile trial in Livingston parish.

Tucked away among the mounds of evidence in the case against former Livingston Parish sheriff’s deputy Dennis Perkins is a videotape of him having sex with a handcuffed woman during what appears to be a traffic stop, an attorney in the case claims.

The trials of Dennis and Cynthia Perkins will be held separately, a judge ruled Friday.

Police arrested Kristopher Uhrbach, 35, last year on hundreds of charges involving child pornography and animal sexual abuse.

Prosecutors have said no to a plea offer that would have avoided a trial for former Livingston Parish sheriff’s deputy Dennis Perkins.

A Baton Rouge police officer has died while on an overseas military deployment.

A judge in Livingston Parish has ruled that former sheriff’s deputy Dennis Perkins and his wife will not have separate trials.

Former Livingston Parish sheriff’s deputy Dennis Perkins will ask prosecutors for a plea deal to avoid trial, his attorney said in court Friday.

Six juveniles escaped from the Bridge City Center for Youth in Jefferson Parish just after midnight Wednesday.

A judge ruled Friday that jurors can see a video of former high-ranking Livingston Parish sheriff’s deputy Dennis Perkins having sex with his former mistress, Melanie Curtin, inside a store’s dressing room.

Pat Magee, a former high-ranking member of the Louisiana Attorney General’s Office, was found to have used inappropriate language in the workplace including profanity, sexual slang, and unprofessional comments about the appearance of coworkers, according to his January 2021 disciplinary letter.

Another high-ranking member of the Louisiana Attorney General’s Office has resigned amid an ongoing probe into wrongdoing in that office.