WBRZ - Baton Rouge

Posted 8:08 PM 6/19/2013

BATON ROUGE - There's new information tonight regarding the financial dealings of a Baton Rouge private foundation that is now under federal investigation. We first told you about St. Joseph Helpers last week. It's a foundation that claims to provide financial assistance to those in (More)

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Posted 8:57 PM 6/17/2013 by Brittany Weiss

DENHAM SPRINGS - Police are considering adding a new piece of technology to their force to catch speeding drivers.

The speed laser, called DragonCam, is already used in other states.

DragonCam combines traditional laser enforcement with new, automated enforcement. Instead of (More)

Posted 3:20 PM 6/16/2013 by Associated Press

GULF SHORES, Ala. - Environmental advocates and others are questioning the decision to quit using crews to look for tar balls left by the BP oil spill on Gulf Coast beaches in Alabama, Florida and Mississippi. The patrols ended this month as coastal monitoring reverted to the way it (More)

Posted 8:24 AM 6/16/2013 by Trey Schmaltz

BATON ROUGE- Lorette Oubre from Vacherie won the 2013 St. Jude Dream Home Saturday night.

The giveaway was televised live from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on channel 2.

Oubre was shocked and overjoyed when WBRZ anchors John Pastorek and Sylvia Weatherspoon called her with the news just after (More)

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Posted 4:06 PM 6/14/2013 by Rob Krieger

GEISMAR - Emergency responders in Ascension Parish today reflected on what happened during those first few minutes of the response to the Geismar chemical plant explosion Thursday.

"People were literally running for their lives, down Highway 3115, and it was chaos at that moment," (More)