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29-year-old Kewanda B. Duncan was booked Monday on one count of manslaughter in the death of A'Mircle Parker, a 12-week-old baby born premature this summer at Baton Rouge General Medical Center.

The measures reduce the average energy costs by about $300 per dwelling.

Councilwoman Ronnie Edwards said the unattractive benches devalue the community and that she would like to see a moratorium on awarding additional bus bench contracts until standards are put in place.

The groundbreaking was moved to the Capitol Center to accommodate the expected turnout, says Lauren Hatcher, a spokeswoman for the Baton Rouge Area Chamber.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — An eighth-grader at Beechwood Superintendent Academy in Baton Rouge has been arrested after an unloaded gun was found in his back pack. The East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office says a 15-year-old boy was booked Thursday with illegal carrying of a weapon on school property...

Baton Rouge to New Orleans just $14 one way.

Authorities in East Baton Rouge Parish investigated 50 homicides by July 3 last year and 40 in 2011.

The Baton Rouge murder suspect who escaped from police custody last night has been re-arrested.  Lafayette Parish Sheriff's deputies and U. S. Marshals captured Ruben Van Dyke around 7:30 this morning after a concerned citizen saw him walking down Ambassador Caffery near the Youngsville Highway...

People should be held accountable for their actions.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Planning groups in Baton Rouge and New Orleans have set aside money to study building passenger rail service linking the two major metropolitan areas. The Advocate reports that the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Planning Organization last week approved spending $105,000 in federal money for a feasibility study of a commuter rail service to New Orleans...

Tameka Johnson was in an argument with the two men...

An escaped prisoner that we first told you about a couple weeks ago is now back behind bars. Rayne Police say John Smith was arrested yesterday in Baton Rouge after leading police there in a car chase. Police say he was driving the city truck he stole when he escaped from the Rayne City Jail...

He is accused of attacking a man accused of molestation.

Police are searching for more victims of an alleged robber. Deputies in Acadia Parish say 57-year-old Dennis Hanks, of Baton Rouge, stole more than 15 weapons from the area, and many of the victims have been identified.

Today marks the start of the Leadership for Change 2012 Louisiana Education Summit in Baton Rouge.

Shannon Alexander and an 11 year old boy were riding in the buggy on Foss street

One drug dealer is dead and two more injured in self defense Saturday.

A spokeswoman for the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office says deputies arrested the wrong person in the Saturday shooting and injuring of two bystanders near the Mall of Louisiana.

A stray bullet in Baton Rouge leaves a 15 year old girl hospitalized.

Evidence gathered by the nearly two-year-old Medicare Fraud Strike Force finds four Louisiana physicians wrote hundreds of bogus prescriptions that powered multimillion-dollar health-care frauds in the Baton Rouge area.