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BATON ROUGE – One Louisiana basketball star received recognition from another after the New Orleans Pelicans’ Brandon Ingram gave LSU’s Flau’jae Johnson his jersey after the Pelicans clinched their ticket to the NBA Playoffs. In the video posted by the Pelicans, Ingram takes off the jersey and signs it for Johnson before posing for a…

BATON ROUGE – An LSU study exposed high drug use on campus, and now LSU claims the university doesn’t have a drug problem and researchers used faulty data. Rylye Young, one of the student researchers, is at a loss for words. “I think holistically I don’t know how anybody could arrive at the position that…

FORT WORTH, Texas – The LSU gymnastics team is the favorite heading into Saturday’s NCAA Championship Final. The No. 2 Tigers will face off with No. 3 California, No. 4 Florida, and No. 5 Utah in a quest for LSU’s first-ever national title. The two-time defending national champs, (1) Oklahoma, was surprisingly eliminated in Thursday…

BATON ROUGE — A federal judge voided NBA Youngboy’s house arrest Thursday after Utah law officers booked the Baton Rouge rapper this week and accused him of leading a large-scale prescription fraud drug ring. The rapper, whose real name is Kentrell Gaulden, was arrested Tuesday on 63 counts including identity fraud, forgery and obtaining or…

WASHINGTON (AP) — House congressional leaders were toiling Thursday on a delicate, bipartisan push toward weekend votes to approve a $95 billion package of foreign aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, as well as several other national security policies at a critical moment at home and abroad. Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson this week set…

CENTRAL – The Central Police Department warned parents of a vape that is shaped like a pen and can write being distributed within schools. According to the Facebook post from the police, the “Penjamin Cart Pens” advertise that they are “super discreet,” “rechargeable,” “writes with ink” and “increases rizz.” “It is an actual pen that…

BATON ROUGE – Joseph Hayes, 24, swore that police had arrested the wrong person as he was being put into a police car and taken to the Parish Prison to be booked with first-degree rape.  “Y’all got the wrong dude,” Hayes said. “They’re looking for another dude … I didn’t do that, I swear to…

SORRENTO — A Sorrento man faces 40 years in prison after pleading guilty to the murder of his child’s mother in 2016.  The Advocate reported 33-year-old Jarvis McNair pleaded guilty to manslaughter Tuesday. He admitted to shooting and killing Shondrica Dejoie just feet away from their then-10-month-old child.  Following the shooting, McNair was originally arrested…

BATON ROUGE – The countdown is on for Dancing for Big Buddy, a night of festivities and fun as local celebrities dance for charity.  Storm Station Meteorologist Emma Kate Cowan will be one of the star dancers! You can vote for her, see the list of every dancer participating, and purchase tickets for the event…

SOUTH CHARLESTON, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio man who authorities say fatally shot an Uber driver who he thought was trying to rob him after scam phone calls deceived them both has been indicted on a murder charge. William Brock, 81, also faces counts of kidnapping and felonious assault in the indictment handed up Monday…

PONCHATOULA — A Ponchatoula man was arrested for the March killing of his estranged wife. David Hernandez, 49, was booked Monday on second degree murder and obstruction of justice charges for the March 20 homicide of his wife, Lisa Hernandez, 45.  The couple had been separated for a year when David Hernandez began stalking Lisa…

BATON ROUGE – LSU senior gymnast Haleigh Bryant has been nothing short of amazing during her time in Baton Rouge, and the entire country knows it. The senior was named the 2024 AAI Award Winner Tuesday. The award is voted on by head coaches and given to the top senior gymnast in the nation. The…

BATON ROUGE — A Baton Rouge man arrested in 2019 for the armed robberies of two Dollar General stores pleaded guilty Tuesday. Tyler Dunn, 23, pleaded guilty to interference with commerce by robbery for the two armed robberies in November 2019. According to court records, Dunn was one of four masked and armed men who…

The Youth Peace Olympics is this weekend and it is open to the public.  YPO is a program meant to lead positive change in communities starting with its youngest members. The Olympics opening will feature vendors, food, live music.  The opening will take place at BREC’s Hartley Vey Park on April 20.  Permalink| Comments Top…

The Louisiana Parole Project is helping formerly incarcerated people meet their needs through Second Chance Week, a week-long way to make people aware of the resources available to them and how others can help them become the best version of themselves.  Watch the interview above for more information, or visit the Parole Project’s website here.  …

PRAIRIEVILLE — The Prairieville Fire Department is launching a program to provide fire safety training to high school students. The Prairieville Fire Department will launch the Ascension Parish High School Firefighter Program starting in the 2024-2025 school year. The program, available to all Ascension Parish high school seniors, will provide students with four nationally accredited…

CLINTON – The Silliman Institute in East Feliciana Parish was partially closed Monday due to reported vandalism on campus.  The East Feliciana Parish Sheriff’s Office said students in grades 5-12 were sent home while the vandalism was cleaned up, though the extent of the damage was not specified.  It was unclear when the school would…

BATON ROUGE – Saturday, students from local middle schools partnered with mentors from 100 Black Men visited ExxonMobil YMCA to learn more about STEM and career readiness.  Exxon’s Leaders Inspiring the Faces of Tomorrow (LIFT) initiative pairs up middle schoolers with mentors from non-profit 100 Black Men to keep the children on the path to…

BATON ROUGE — Early voting opens Saturday for the April 27 municipal general election. There are no statewide races or issues on this month’s ballot, and not even a parishwide race in East Baton Rouge. Ascension Parish voters will consider giving the school district permission to borrow $110 million for capital projects; the money would…

BATON ROUGE — Refurbishing the River Center and building an adjacent hotel that could serve as a convention headquarters will be virtually impossible to pull off unless there is some kind of public-private partnership, the mayor-president said Friday while releasing her plans for the downtown sites. Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome posted ideas at brla.gov/rivercenterproposal and…

NEW ROADS — Five members of the “Young and Wreckless” gang were sentenced to their automatic terms of life in prison Friday after being convicted of second-degree murder in a trial that was handled as a racketeering case.  The five were convicted in the Jan. 21, 2021, death of Eugene Jarreau III of New Roads,…

FRANCISVILLE, La. – East Feliciana officials say an escaped inmate was recaptured Saturday morning after walking off a work-release program job he was doing at Ethel in East Feliciana Parish Friday night. Officials say Landon Hisaw, 36, of Baton Rouge, escaped around 8:30 p.m. Friday. Deputies recaptured Hisaw around 9:30 a.m., and booked him into East…