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AMELIA — A Morgan City woman was arrested and accused of various drug charges after a traffic stop in Amelia. Raquel Delaune Barber, 49, was a passenger in a car stopped for a traffic violation near the intersection of U.S. 90 and La. 622, Assumption Parish deputies said. A deputy noticed Barber fidgeting in the…

BATON ROUGE – Spend some bucks to support the Bucks at Broadmoor’s 51st annual Arts and Crafts Festival.  The festival will be open to get some early Christmas shopping done this Saturday at 10100 Goodwood Boulevard starting at 9 a.m. Parking will be $3 and admission is $3, which grants you access to arts and…

BATON ROUGE – A local charity is group is seeking sponsors for families in need this holiday season.  “We are in dire need. We have over 200 families that still need to be sponsored for Christmas and we certainly do not want to call these families and tell them they will not have a Christmas…

ERWINVILLE — West Baton Rouge Parish deputies are searching for two people accused of stealing from a Dollar General in Erwinville. Deputies said that the two people were seen on security footage putting baby formula and other merchandise into a shoulder bag on Friday. Anyone with information on the two people are asked to contact…

BATON ROUGE — A woman was arrested Tuesday morning for irate behavior at a Baton Rouge school, deputies said.  The woman, Shaharold Wings, 29, is a parent of a student at EBR Readiness Middle School. East Baton Rouge Parish deputies said she was cursing at people at the school. She was arrested on disruption of…

DENHAM SPRINGS — Livingston Parish firefighters put out a vacant house fire early Tuesday morning. The fire on Kudu Trail Drive started around 5:30 a.m., fire officials said. The building was completely vacant and no one was hurt. Livingston Fire is working with the Louisiana State Fire Marshal to determine the fire’s cause. Photo: Livingston…

PORT ALLEN – A Plaquemine mayoral candidate’s petition to contest the close results of the town’s mayoral election was dismissed in an 18th JDC courtroom Monday morning.  Plaquemine mayoral candidate Tonya Harmason (I) filed the petition to contest the results of the town’s mayoral election, claiming she was the victim of voter suppression and fraud.…

PAINCOURTVILLE – A Labadieville man accused of battery while swinging a large piece of wood at a person in an Assumption bar was arrested over the weekend. Ashton Kerry Ainsworth, 34, was arrested after deputies were called to a fight at Hollywoods Bar in Paincourtville. Deputies said they found Ainsworth fighting another person when they…

BATON ROUGE — Baton Rouge General’s holiday lights display returns to Bluebonnet Boulevard for its eighth year on Saturday. Starting Saturday and continuing through Dec. 31, the Holiday Lights at Baton Rouge General powered by Entergy will light up each night starting at 5:30 p.m. The walk-through display will feature three large attractions — an…

BATON ROUGE — Deputies say they are searching for a man wanted for multiple thefts that occurred in East Baton Rouge Parish. Oscar Johnson, 51, was identified by officials as the suspect. According to Capital Region Crime Stoppers, Johnson is believed to be occupying a white Jeep Compass.  If you have any information you can…

BATON ROUGE — Those looking to apply for FEMA Individual Assistance Program in select parishes after Hurricane Francine have until Monday, Nov. 19.  The deadline is for residents of Ascension, Assumption, Lafourche, Jefferson, St. Charles, St. James, St. John the Baptist, St. Mary and Terrebonne Parishes. To apply for FEMA assistance you can click here…

BATON ROUGE – The East Baton Rouge Sherrif’s Office is investigating an overnight shooting that left one man dead at an apartment complex on Nicholson Drive Saturday. Deputies were called to The Meadows at Nicholson and arrived around 8 p.m., where they found 27-year-old Johnathan James dead in the hallway. No information was given about…

LAPLACE — Deer hunting is temporarily closed in the Maurepas Swamp Wildlife Management Area due to flooding, according to the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries. Floodwaters in the area have reached 3 feet, triggering an automatic temporary closure. The department says deer hunting will be allowed when water levels fall below 2.5 feet. To…

Here are the high school football scores from round one of the Playoffs for the state of Louisiana: Non-Select= Division IV= East Feliciana 6, Homer 0 Elton 22, Basile 18 Ferriday 30, Lake Arthur 7 Franklin 44, White Castle 0 General Trass (Lake Providence) 64, Centerville 20 Grand Lake 23, Jonesboro-Hodge 20 Logansport 61, Varnado…

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — LSU is looking to get back in the win column after dropping their last two SEC matchups. The Tigers are taking a business trip to the Swamp to face the Florida Gators on Saturday afternoon. Back-to-back losses to Texas A&M and Alabama gave LSU their third loss on the season. The results…

BATON ROUGE — Traffic on Interstate 10 westbound is backed up from the Mississippi River Bridge all the way to the I-10/I-12 split after a truck caught fire making a turn from I-10 onto LA 1. According to Total Traffic BTR, the crash was cleared in Port Allen at 9 a.m., but traffic is still…

ZACHARY – The Zachary High School Broncos will take on the Sam Houston Broncos at 7 p.m. on Friday evening. Zachary is currently ranked No. 3 in the 4-5A district. Friday evening is the start of the 2024 playoff season. 2une In Tailgater Abigail Whitam and Stephen Hightower previewed the upcoming games this weekend. To…

NEW YORK (AP) — A year after turning to comedian Jimmy Kimmel to host their big show, The Academy Awards will pivot to another familiar TV funnyman — Conan O’Brien. “America demanded it and now it’s happening: Taco Bell’s new Cheesy Chalupa Supreme. In other news, I’m hosting the Oscars,” O’Brien said in a statement…

CHICAGO (AP) — The satirical news publication The Onion won the bidding for Alex Jones’ Infowars at a bankruptcy auction, backed by families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims whom Jones owes more than $1 billion in defamation judgments for calling the massacre a hoax. “The dissolution of Alex Jones’ assets and the death…

PONCHATOULA — A man is wanted for cashing fake checks worth thousands of dollars from the U.S. Treasury by deputies. In April, Jerome Robinson, 34, is accused of going to multiple branches of The First Bank to deposit and then cash out the fake checks.  The first instance of check fraud resulted in a check…

DENHAM SPRINGS – Power is restored after an outage early this morning in the area around Juban Crossing.  At around 6 a.m., 1,500 customers were out of power under Entergy in the area around Juban Crossing. Power was restored shortly before 7 a.m.. WBRZ has reached out to Entergy for more information on what caused…

LAFAYETTE – Schools and several roads in Lafayette are closed Wednesday due to flash flooding in the area.  All schools under the Lafayette Parish School System are closed Wednesday, KATC reports.  Roads in Lafayette and in Scott are closed due to the rising water.  “An isolated cell produced 2 to 4 inches of rain in…