Jeremy Krail

FORDOCHE - A group of suspected criminals crashed a stolen car into a tree while fleeing deputies in West Baton Rouge early Thursday morning, leaving three of those suspects dead.

BATON ROUGE - A bomb threat that shut down Baton Rouge High and triggered a chain reaction of closures at neighboring campuses was likely connected to a string of similar calls placed at other schools around the state, police said Wednesday.

Louisiana leaders are suggesting that football fans make significant changes to their game day rituals as the state continues to warn residents of the risk for rapidly spreading wildfires.

The Baton Rouge Police Department has scuttled its Street Crimes unit, a division of BRPD dedicated to tackling crime in the most violent corners of the city, as the agency faces scrutiny over its use of a little-known processing facility known as the

A small-scale nature preserve that markets up-close encounters with exotic animals says federal regulators overreached this week when they took away its ailing giraffe.

BATON ROUGE - Some of Louisiana’s most troubled juvenile offenders were quietly removed from an embattled facility on the grounds of the Angola penitentiary Friday morning.

BATON ROUGE - Some of Louisiana’s most troubled juvenile offenders were quietly removed from an embattled facility on the grounds of the Angola penitentiary Friday morning.

A former Baton Rouge police officer with a history of excessive force complaints was arrested Wednesday on a battery charge.

Troy Lawrence Sr., a BRPD deputy chief whose police officer son was arrested last week after it was revealed he tased a handcuffed suspect, has been placed on administrative leave as the department faces a federal investigation over alleged police misconduct.

A criminal’s plot to mug several tenants at a Baton Rouge apartment complex by pretending to have a gun in his pocket backfired when the residents realized he was completely unarmed.