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Rashie McDowell, a former East Baton Rouge Parish Prison employee, was arrested in Baton Rouge on a third-degree rape charge.

Baton Rouge Police Corporal Walter Brooks died Monday, June 15, 2026 after health complications. Brooks had served with BRPD since 2011 on the 1st District Evening Shift.

Two Baton Rouge Police officers face domestic violence charges in separate incidents. Officer Aimee Adams was arrested May 24 and Officer Darnell Brown was issued a summons June 8.

A former employee has been arrested for setting a fire at a Dollar Tree location.

Police say they've arrested the man responsible for killing a Jefferson Parish father in a brawl at Fred's in Tigerland.

A woman has been arrested for attempted kidnapping after police said she repeatedly snuck into Our Lady of the Lake's Children's Hospital.

Baton Rouge Police Officers are receiving a lot of praise after they were seen assisting a person who is wheelchair.

A Louisiana woman has taken to Facebook in a desperate search for a piece of her late father's legacy—a cherished LSU jacket mistakenly donated to Goodwill.

Monday, August 15th was not the first day of school for two Ascension Parish students, but it was memorable.

A woman's body was discovered in the parking lot of a business and police say her gruesome murder was streamed in a 15-minute feed on Facebook Live.

A Baton Rouge Police officer is on leave after it was found that he posted racist messages online.