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In a statement to The Independent, the East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner’s Office said 19-year-old Brooks died from multiple traumatic injuries

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."

BATON ROUGE, La. — When Kaitlyn Joshua found out she was pregnant in mid-August, she and her husband, Landon Joshua, were excited to have a second baby on the way. They have a 4-year-old daughter and thought that was just the right age to help with a younger sibling.

Authorities say 12 people were injured in a shooting at a nightclub in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, early Sunday

The deaths of two teenage girls in a Louisiana town have brought renewed attention to fatalities that happen during high-speed police chases

‘We don’t know why God took our daughter, but I bet she is running shop up there’

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.