Baton Rouge Police officers responded to 2618 Osage St. at approximately 5:40 a.m. Friday regarding a shooting. They found 27-year-old Demarcus Variste suffering from gunshot wounds, and he died on ...

Timothy Thomas Jr. was booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish jail on counts of second-degree murder and illegal use of a weapon, according to a police.

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — Baton Rouge has seen a decline in overall crime rates for two consecutive years, according to Police Chief TJ Morse. Chief Morse reported that crime in Baton Rouge ...

A suspect has been arrested in connection with a deadly shooting on Ford Street in Baton Rouge, according to police.

Baton Rouge police are searching for suspects in three separate shootings that happened over the weekend, two of them deadly, ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — Mayor-President Sid Edwards celebrated progress in crime, blight and homelessness in his annual State of the City address Wednesday afternoon. “What a difference a ...

Baton Rouge Police Department detectives are asking the public to help identify a suspect accused of stealing $15,000 from an ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Police are asking for help identifying a person as part of a financial crime investigation. According to the Baton Rouge Police Department, investigators believe that in ...

Attorney General Loretta Lynch pauses during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, Monday, May 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (Evan Vucci) U.S. Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch ...

Two of the inmates who broke out of a north Louisiana prison last week — both being held there for crimes committed in Baton Rouge — took a school bus and led officers on a high-speed chase into ...