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With the bounty of spring, the Big River Economic and Agricultural Development Alliance is set to begin operating four weekly markets in different areas of Baton Rouge. Starting Tuesday, April 11, the Red Stick Farmers Market will host a group of farmers and food artisans from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. every Tuesday at the Main Library on Goodwood Blvd.

BREADA reopening fresh produce markets to gear up for the bounty of a Louisiana spring

In a sign of confidence in downtown Baton Rouge and Louisiana’s petroleum sector, Dallas-based Placid Refining Company announced Thursday it will move its headquarters to Fourth Street as part of a $66 million project that will include upgrades to its Port Allen refinery. The company expects the relocation and...

Why this petroleum company is moving its headquarters from Texas to downtown Baton Rouge

Lafayette, LA

A mobile home park in Lafayette has sold for $3.8 million last month, records show. Stanley Communities, led by Lafayette partners Kris Hodges and Michael Hyatt, bought the 14.48-acre, 109-space Oak Park Estates, 1717 Eraste Landry Road, for from the Kelley family, land records show. The group now owns 20 properties, 14 of which are in Acadiana.

Stanley Communities buys mobile home park in Lafayette for $3.8 million

RETAIL: 310 Jefferson St., description, roofing and façade work at Parish Ink; applicant, Shannon Ducote; $23,000. OTHER: 504 Garfield St., description, interior including front door and bathroom walls; applicant and contractor, Cruz Construction; $2,500. New residential. 810 Kidder Road: Aymond Building & Design Group, $226,080. 104 Timber Mill St.:...

Who's building where in Acadiana? Here are the building permits issued March 15-22

Florida State

A Florida man traveling with his family back home from Oklahoma went missing Wednesday after he began feeling unwell and checked into a downtown hotel with his family, a Baton Rouge Police spokesperson said. Jody Bert, 44, had dropped his family off at a downtown hotel, and went to park,...

Florida man missing from downtown Baton Rouge after checking into hotel with family, police say

Scott, LA

The town of Scott, just to the west of Lafayette was born as a railroad town. According to records, the railroad that runs through Scott was built between 1870 and 1880 using convict labor. Some of the land for the railroad was obtained from Dominique Cayret. J.B. Scott, then the...

How Scott became known as 'Where the West begins'

Thibodaux, LA

A Thibodaux man irate that he hadn't yet received a check in the mail hummed a rock at U.S. postal worker Thursday and injured her arm, Assumption Parish sheriff's deputies said. Deputies arrested Ronald Washington Jr., 27, after the postal worker reported the encounter near Labadieville, deputies said in a...

Louisiana man chases, throws rock at a postal worker over a missing check, deputies say

New Orleans, LA

Signing up clients without their knowledge, endorsing a check without authorization and misrepresenting themselves to insurers — these are just some of the questionable practices Houston-based law firm McClenny, Moseley and Associates is accused of in Louisiana and has, in part, admitted to in court. And judging from a...

‘Ego and greed’: New Orleans federal judge tears into troubled Texas law firm

5 p.m. - 8 p.m. Chris Leblanc. 7:30 p.m. - 8:45 p.m. Tommy Castro & The Painkillers. 2:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Sam Hogan & The Rhythm Ramblers. 1 p.m. - 2 p.m. OMT Band featuring Floyd Patterson. 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Gregg Martinez featuring TK Hulin and Johnny...

Baton Rouge Blues Festival announces lineup for April 21-23 downtown event

Georgia State

Update: Police identified the arrested woman as Tiffany Ann Guidry. One of the women wanted for questioning in the death of a Georgia man who died of a drug overdose while on a business trip to Baton Rouge last month has been arrested, police said Friday. Authorities on Thursday issued...

Woman arrested in connection with Nathan Millard case, Baton Rouge police say

Coco Womack and her two youngest children packed the last of their belongings. She left behind the furniture in Baltimore and had shipped what didn’t fit in her car, using a move to start fresh. That crisp January day, they loaded family pictures and essentials, and in the back, a cage holding her oldest son’s pet boa constrictor.

The touching story of LSU freshman Da’Shawn Womack and his family's move to Baton Rouge

Pineville, LA

Camp Beauregard, the sprawling Louisiana installation in Pineville that functions as one of two main sites for the Louisiana National Guard, will get a new name later this year as it follows the Army’s lead in moving away from bases named for Confederate officers. Louisiana Adjutant General D. Keith...

Six options considered for renaming Louisiana National Guard facility that honored Confederate general

Donaldsonville, LA

An Ascension Parish worker was arrested after urinating in the water supply for several thousand people in the Donaldsonville area on at least two separate occasions, authorities said Thursday. Parish officials said at no time was the public in danger and samples show the water quality is "in good standing...

Worker accused of urinating twice in Ascension water supply is fired, arrested

South Carolina State

LSU women's basketball coach Kim Mulkey did not disappoint with her ensemble for Friday's Sweet Sixteen battle against Utah in Greenville, South Carolina. Mulkey, who is in her second season at LSU, has developed quite the reputation in Baton Rouge for her selection of outfits on gameday, and it appears she topped herself in South Carolina on Friday.

Kim Mulkey arrived for LSU-Utah in the Sweet Sixteen wearing quite the flashy outfit

Matthew Fortenberry loved basketball, and earlier this month his school team had won a championship. His Glen Oaks Park Elementary School team was supposed to be honored at Wednesday’s Metro Council meeting. Instead, his parents and Baton Rouge leaders stood in the council chambers to announce a funeral expense...

An 11-year-old's funeral fund and a Baton Rouge father's plea: 'Something's got to change'

The Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office has obtained arrest warrants for four Spirit Airlines contract workers who were caught on camera last month rifling through and taking items from a traveler's bag at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport, authorities said. Two of the suspects, Willie Stovall III, 31, and Ebone...

2 New Orleans airport gate agents arrested, 2 wanted after theft caught on video: JPSO

Lutcher, LA

If you do, don’t mention it to the Lutcher or Port Allen girls powerlifting teams. Both teams proved heavy lifting is still their thing at the LHSAA state powerlifting championships. Lutcher claimed its 16th straight title by winning Division II on the third day of the meet held Friday...

Girls rule: Lutcher, Port Allen dominate once again at LHSAA powerlifting meet

Calcasieu Parish, LA

Louisiana State Police investigators have turned over the case of missing Lafayette woman Ella Goodie to the Calcasieu Parish District Attorney’s Office. Trooper Derek Senegal, spokesperson for State Police’s Troop D, said the case was turned over to Calcasieu Parish District Attorney Stephen Dwight’s office March 17. Goodie’s case was reclassified as a homicide about two months after her disappearance on March 9, 2022, when she was last seen while taking a rideshare client to Texas.

Ella Goodie disappearance case turned over to Calcasieu District Attorney’s Office

Two people were injured in separate shootings two hours apart in Baton Rouge on Thursday morning, officials say. At 7:25 a.m., Emergency Medical Services brought one person to the hospital from a shooting in the 2800 block of Lorraine Street, EMS spokesperson Brad Harris said. At 9:30 a.m., EMS brought...

Two wounded in shootings within two hours in Baton Rouge on Thursday morning, officials say

For the Lafayette High girls, Thursday night was business as usual. For homestanding Carencro's boys, it was further proof it has the personnel to make a postseason run. And for the track and field fans on hand, they were treated to some special efforts in the Beaver Club Relays. Lafayette...

As expected, Lafayette girls, Carencro boys capture parish track crown

Lafayette’s City Council this week handed over its months-long investigation of Mayor-President Josh Guillory to the Louisiana legislative auditor’s office. No findings have been disclosed yet as the probe moves forward. Within weeks of Guillory’s return from rehab last summer and amid a story about a construction equipment...

Lafayette City Council passes Josh Guillory investigation to legislative auditor

Arkansas State

WHO: Arkansas (20-2, 4-0) at LSU (19-3, 2-2) WHEN: 1 p.m.; 6:30 p.m. Saturday. RADIO: WDGL-FM, 98.1 (Baton Rouge); WWL-AM, 870 (New Orleans); KLWB-FM, 103.7 (Lafayette) RANKINGS: LSU is No. 1 by Collegiate Baseball. Arkansas is No. 3. PROBABLE STARTERS: LSU — RHP Ty Floyd (3-0, 2.25 ERA), Thatcher Hurd...

How to watch, listen to Arkansas at LSU on Saturday's doubleheader

The LSU vs. Arkansas baseball series will now conclude with a Saturday doubleheader. Saturday's game 2 of the series will remain at 1 p.m., while game 3, originally slated for Sunday, will take place at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday evening. Both games will be nine innings. The first of the...

Here's the updated schedule for LSU vs. Arkansas baseball

Indiana State

GREENVILLE, S.C. — Some unforgettable images the Utah Utes will carry with them into their suddenly present postseason:. • LSU forward LaDazhia Williams, deftly spinning to the basket or popping out for soft midrange jumpers, like a latter-day Seimone Augustus. • Alexis Morris, sinking the four most clutch free...

Scott Rabalais: This is how LSU slid into the Elite Eight — clutch play, pink feathers

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Aldi plans to open 5 South Louisiana stores this year. Here's where they will be.

Fast growing grocery chain Aldi should begin construction on its first Baton Rouge-area location in the next couple of weeks. Work is set to begin soon...

Aldi plans to open 5 South Louisiana stores this year. Here's where they will be.

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