4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (415+ words) BATON ROUGE — A mid-afternoon barrage of gunfire at a North Ardenwood apartment complex on Aug. 29 injured five people. Latrell Trumble, 22, died shortly after the shooting. The others, including a 14-year-old victim, are expected to survive. His mother and his seven…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (212+ words) Shannon has called Livingston Parish home for most of her life. Her passion for delivering truthful news began as a child, and she started her journalism career more than a decade ago at LSU. After a hiatus from journalism to…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (374+ words) While the number of overdose deaths both nationwide and across Louisiana have been trending down over the last year, drug overdoses are still behind tens of thousands of deaths in the United States. According to data from the Centers from…...

2+ week, 4+ hour ago   (95+ words) MARINGOUIN —- A fire that started on Monday morning has now been extinguished and the State Fire Marshal is in route to investigate the fire that left a mother and child dead. The fire broke out around 6 a.m. on August 31 at…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (191+ words) ADDIS — Breyonne Dorsey, 31, and her boyfriend Christopher Butler, 34, were indicted Monday in the beating death of Dorsey’s 7-year-old daughter Paris Williams. Police found Williams unresponsive at her mother’s home on La. Hwy. 1 in Addis on July 1. She had several serious…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (385+ words) BATON ROUGE — Unfiltered with Kiran has been honored with another prestigious national Edward R. Murrow award from the Radio Television Digital News Association, or RTDNA. It is among the most prestigious awards in journalism, recognizing local and national news stories....

1+ mon, 3+ hour ago   (120+ words) BELLE ROSE —- A 26-year-old man is behind bars, accused in the death of a three-year-old girl from Assumption Parish. Bernard JR Fleander, 26, of Belle Rose, on charges of first-degree murder, simple battery and failure to appear. Deputies say Fleander was…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (399+ words) BATON ROUGE — A warrant is out for a 31-year-old’s arrest as an accessory to her own December shooting. Her “estranged ex-boyfriend,” a 15-year-old, is accused of doing the shooting, according to the warrant. Witnesses said 15-year-old Damon King shot Charlitria Mariona…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (433+ words) BATON ROUGE — It’s now the end of the second week officials have spent searching a portion of the North Landfill for Ja’Derrius Minnieweather. Minnieweather, 15, was declared a missing person after he was last seen on June 5. Police believe 15-year-old Minnieweather…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (211+ words) LIVINGSTON PARISH — A former St. Gabriel Police officer was sentenced to 35 years in prison on manslaughter charges after the March 2023 death of a 26-year-old man. On July 15, Andre Reddit pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the killing of Dylan Martin. Martin…...