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A Baton Rouge man was convicted Thursday of fatally stabbing and shooting his girlfriend at their Annette Street home in 2018.

LSU does not have to turn over internal documents regarding embattled head basketball coach Will Wade to lawyers for fired assistant football coach James Cregg, a judge ruled Friday as

A Highland Road couple's landscaper is accused of murdering them; his trial starts Monday  The Advocate

A Baton Rouge woman who pleaded no contest to manslaughter in her boyfriend’s 2017 slaying after her non-unanimous murder conviction was thrown out was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in

A state judge has ordered LSU to hand over records of an assistant professor’s experiments on sparrows to an animals rights group, the group said Tuesday.

Louisiana’s top court says it is troubled that Baton Rouge attorney Chris Alexander has been suspended on an interim basis for nearly two years, and the Office of Disciplinary Counsel

A Kenner man was convicted Monday of raping a Baton Rouge woman at knifepoint in her Alaska Street home last year.

All Alex Trejos has wanted for the past 5 1/2 years is justice for his slain son Jesse, who was fatally shot in the Round Oak section of Baton Rouge.

East Baton Rouge Parish Metro Councilwoman Erika Green defeated fellow attorney Natalie Tellis Robertson on Saturday night for the right to fill an unexpired term on East Baton Rouge Parish

The man who led police on a 10-mile chase from Walker to Baton Rouge, reaching speeds of nearly 120 mph at one point, was traveling 90 mph when he collided

A Baton Rouge man accused of killing a bystander when he fired into a crowd of people watching a 2014 street brawl can receive a fair retrial from a judge

A divided federal appellate court panel refused to revive a Baton Rouge woman’s lawsuit against a local prosecutor for allegedly failing to adequately pursue her claims that an Angola deputy

A jury heard closing arguments Tuesday at the trial of a Baton Rouge man accused of raping a 15-year-old girl in 2003, but the panel won’t begin deliberating his fate

A woman testified Monday for the second time in three years that a Baton Rouge man raped her in 2003 when she was 15 after giving her a ride home

As a landscaper, Dayna Cutrer is used to south Louisiana’s scorching summer temperatures, but being without power or water since Monday is testing even this hearty Greensburg resident in Hurricane

A Baton Rouge man jailed in the May 1 home-invasion slaying of a Southern University Law Center alumnus is now under indictment.

A defamation claim that former Southern Lab High School head football coach Marcus Randall filed against the Southern University Board of Supervisors in 2017 has been thrown out by an

A Baton Rouge woman caught on surveillance video punching a teenage Chili’s hostess in the face and striking her with a “wet floor” sign last August as the waitress tried

In hindsight, David Gerardo Bueso wishes he had testified in his own defense after the 2017 bludgeoning death of his best friend and former roommate, Jhoel Brisuela-Tercero, at a Baton

Former Our Lady of the Lake Foundation head John Paul Funes, who pleaded guilty in 2019 to embezzling nearly $800,000 from the hospital system’s nonprofit fundraising arm, has been moved