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Garbage disposal company Waste Management says it will replace 40 diesel-powered trucks in its Baton Rouge fleet with to those using compressed natural gas.

The Advocate reports that statewide gambling winnings were $188.5 million in January.

Police booked Keisha Sturdivant on counts of cruelty to juveniles, contributing to the delinquency of a juvenile and using a controlled dangerous substance in the presence of a minor.

Though 2013 doesn't rival the Hurricane Katrina-aided years from 2005 to 2007, last year fell only 59 houses shy of the 8,749 sold pre-Katrina in 2004 in the Capital Region.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A Wichita, Kan., company that re-refines used motor oil has opened a 12,000-square-foot distribution center in Baton Rouge.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Baton Rouge will be the site of an expansive coastal research center called The Water Campus that will serve as a hub for work on restoring and protecting coastal communities.

Applications will be accepted through Friday, but members of a committee tasked with vetting applications say they are impressed with the pool they've seen so far.

Cpl. L'Jean McKneely says Corey Pittman was returned to Baton Rouge to be booked with first-degree murder in the shooting death of 35-year-old Kenneth Barton.

Plans are for the rail line to start near downtown Baton Rouge, then make a stop either on Essen Lane or Bluebonnet Boulevard.

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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A 37-year-old man has been hospitalized after he was attacked and set on fire over the weekend, allegedly by a group of teens. WAFB-TV reports Baton Rouge Police were called to a hospital around 10:30 p.m. Saturday and the victim told officers a group of teenagers jumped him as he walked through an alley...

Rouses has said the independent grocer wants three stores in the Baton Rouge area.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Baton Rouge police are eagerly awaiting the day they can bid farewell to the old, dilapidated schoolhouse they've called home for 25 years, but officials say that day likely won't come as soon as they'd hoped. Police Chief Carl Dabadie tells The Advocate it's going to take a few months longer than originally anticipated for the police department to move its headquarters int

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Baton Rouge police say 29-year-Broderick Patterson has been booked in the fatal stabbing of his mother. Police responded to the Turner Plaza apartment around 2 p.m. Thursday and found 52-year-old Luethel Patterson lying on the floor with multiple stab wounds...

McKneely tells says police began Thursday night increasing the enforcement effort of underage drinking, which involves officers concentrating on areas such as college campuses, bars and clubs.

Councilman Buddy Amoroso said the city-parish's failure to enforce payment of the fines will lead to fewer people paying tickets every year.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana authorities have identified the man and woman whose bodies were found Sunday inside a room at a Motel 6 in Baton Rouge, but still don't know why they died. Cpl. Don Coppola Jr. says it's believed that 33-year-old Amy Hadden, of Baton Rouge and 38-year-old Steven Ashley Jr...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A jury acquittal two men in the December 2007 shooting deaths of two LSU graduate students from India at a campus apartment will mean freedom for one of the Baton Rouge men but not for the other. An East Baton Rouge Parish jury deliberated for more than six hours Monday before finding Casey Jermaine Gathers and Michael Jermaine Lewis not guilty in the slaying of Kiran Kumar

Murder, manslaughter, rape, robbery and assaults — classified as violent crimes — are down nearly 25 percent while property crimes — theft, burglary, auto theft and arson — are down by nearly 11 percent.

Hamner lives in nearby woods.