Louisiana officer fatally shoots suspect, sparking protest
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana police officer shot and killed a man during a confrontation outside a Baton Rouge convenience store, authorities say, in a death that prompted a protest later in...
View ArticleOfficers shot in Baton Rouge
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) – Police in Louisiana say that several officers have been shot in Baton Rouge while on duty. The shooting happened early Sunday, less than 1 mile from police headquarters. Baton...
View ArticleAG Lynch condemns Baton Rouge shooting
BATON ROUGE, La (AP) — The Latest on the shooting of law enforcement officers in Baton Rouge (all times local): 9:30 p.m. U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has used a speech in Australia to condemn the...
View ArticleSWAT officer killed gunman from long range
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The Latest on the fatal shooting of three law enforcement officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. (all times local): 2:40 p.m. Sheriff Sid J. Gautreaux has described how the gunman...
View ArticlePresident Obama pens letter to police: ‘We have your backs’
President Barack Obama told to the law enforcement community that he fully supports them and promised, “We have your backs” in the wake of deadly attacks on cops in Dallas and Baton Rouge. The...
View ArticleGavin Long suffered from PTSD, source tells CNN
(CNN) — Gavin Long, the man who shot six law enforcement officers Sunday in Baton Rouge, Louisiana — killing three — suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, a source involved in the...
View ArticleMan in red underpants rams police car into mobile home
BATON ROUGE, LA (AP) — Baton Rouge police say a man wearing only red underpants attacked officers with “superhuman strength,” got into a patrol car and tried to run over officers and rammed a mobile...
View ArticleWoman helps officer in fight by jumping on suspect’s back
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) – A Louisiana woman is being hailed as a hero after police say she saw an officer struggling with a suspect and jumped on the man’s back to help the officer subdue him. The...
View Article101-year-old runner takes women’s record for age group
BATON ROUGE (WBRZ) — A 101-year-old Baton Rouge, Louisiana, woman set a new record for her age group Saturday by completing the 100-meter race in just over 40 seconds. According to USA...
View ArticleFire breaks out at ExxonMobil refinery in Baton Rouge
BATON ROUGE – A fire erupted at an ExxonMobil refinery early Wednesday morning in Baton Rouge. The fire at the facility, which broke out at about 2:30 a.m., sent large flames and plumes of smoke into...
View ArticleAverage US price of gas remains steady at $2.69 per gallon
CAMARILLO, CA (AP) — The average U.S. price of regular-grade gasoline has remained steady over the past two weeks with a .30 cents per gallon rise to $2.69. Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg of the...
View ArticleExxonMobil refinery blaze lights up night sky
BATON ROUGE, LA (CBS News) — A fire inside an ExxonMobil refinery in Louisiana turned the night sky a shade of orange and sent a large plume of smoke into the air. The flames erupted around 11:30 p.m....
View Article$205M in BP spill money for Louisiana coastal restoration
BATON ROUGE, LA (AP) — Louisiana is getting another $205 million in BP oil spill money to restore its coast. $176 million will go toward using sediment dredged from the Mississippi River to build...
View ArticleLouisiana Congressman-elect Luke Letlow dead from COVID-19
BATON ROUGE, LA (AP) — Louisiana’s newest Republican member of the U.S. House, Luke Letlow, has died from complications related to COVID-19 only days before being he would have been sworn into office....
View Article12-foot-long python escapes inside Louisiana’s largest mall
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) – A search is on for a 12-foot-long python that escaped from its enclosure inside Louisiana’s largest shopping mall. Media outlets report that Cara got loose Tuesday from her...
View ArticleHurricane Ida traps Louisianans, leaves the grid a shambles
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A fearsome Hurricane Ida left scores of coastal Louisiana residents trapped by floodwaters and pleading to be rescued Monday while making a shambles of the electrical grid across a...
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