saltwater from the south is encroaching northward and in some strata into central Baton Rouge,” CAGWC Executive Director Gary Beard recently explained. The Commission is funded through pumpage ...

Beard said he intends to identify saltwater hot spots in key layers of the Baton Rouge area's aquifer and propose potential solutions. The commission directed Beard to collect data for wells both ...

RIGHT NOW, BATON ROUGE POLICE ARE WORKING TO TRACK DOWN A THIRD SUSPECT IN WHAT POLICE ARE CALLING A HAZING DEATH OF 20 YEAR OLD CALEB WILSON. WELL, JUST TODAY, A SECOND SUSPECT WAS ARRESTED BY U ...

John Beard, Jr. lives in Port Arthur ... Calumet in Shreveport, and ExxonMobil in Baton Rouge. Nonetheless, it approved the project. Earthjustice, the Center for Biological Diversity, Eagle ...

Baton Rouge General has taken its show on the road. Thanks to generous donations communities and businesses in Baton Rouge, Baton Rouge General launched a mobile health unit in late September.

A group of wealthy white Baton Rouge residents have won a decades-long battle to split from the majority-black city to form their own suburb following a state Supreme Court ruling. After reversing ...

Weeks after the Baton Rouge Police Department faced accusations that officers had subjected detainees to humiliating strip-searches in an unmarked “torture warehouse,” four officers have been ...

The Street Crimes Unit has faced scrutiny over allegations of mistreatment. The Baton Rouge Police Department announced charges against four police officers in the Street Crimes Unit that stemmed ...

Three Baton Rouge police officers, including a deputy police chief, were arrested on felony charges amid ongoing criminal investigations and lawsuits connected to an alleged police "torture warehouse.

A warehouse used by officers has been the subject of recent lawsuits. Federal authorities are investigating the Baton Rouge Police Department following allegations that some officers "abused their ...

Contact her at [email protected] The Justice Department has opened a civil rights investigation into claims that the police department for Baton Rouge, Louisiana, abused and ...

Father Mark Beard, 62, was pastor of St. Helena Catholic Church in Amite City, Louisiana, about an hour northeast of Baton Rouge. Bishop Michael Duca announced Beard’s death on Aug. 2.