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Nineteen-year-old allegedly sexually assaulted while intoxicated before being hit by car near Baton Rouge

A dozen people were injured in a Baton Rouge nightclub shooting, authorities in Louisiana said Sunday. No arrests have been made, but police believe the early morning attack was "targeted."

In March 1863, two months after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, a Black man known as Peter (other accounts name him as Gordon) escaped a Louisiana plantation, endured 10 days in alligator-infested marshes and found his way to Baton Rouge, where he received medical attention and soon enlisted…

The junior running back from Baton Rouge, La., will undergo a second surgical procedure on Tuesday.

The scene of this tale takes us to Baton Rouge, where the Alabama coach and his Crimson Tide face LSU on Saturday in an SEC showdown.

A shipwreck has emerged along the banks of the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, as water levels plummet — threatening to reach record lows in some areas

Baton Rouge resident Patrick Ford discovers sunken Brookhill trading ship as lack of rainfall creates record-low water levels

Walter Andrew Brister IV turned himself into police on Wednesday following Saturday’s incident in Baton Rouge

Mystikal has been denied bond following allegations that he beat, raped and robbed a woman during a financial dispute in his suburban home in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.