WBRZ - Baton Rouge

Updated: 9:21 PM 2/22/2012

CLEVELAND - Chris Kaman scored 21 points and the New Orleans Hornets held off a late Cleveland rally for an 89-84 win over the Cavaliers on Wednesday night. Rookie point guard Kyrie Irving, who made several clutch plays in Cleveland's back-to-back one-point wins over Sacramento and Detroit, was held... (More)

Updated: 9:11 PM 2/22/2012

BATON ROUGE - The LSU Tiger hoops team continues to take care of business during this final stretch of the regular season, winning its fourth straight game tonight. The Tigers defeated the Georgia Bulldogs, 61-53, to improve to 17-10 overall and 7-6 in SEC play. LSU has now won... (More)

Updated: 8:54 PM 2/22/2012

BATON ROUGE - After three seasons guiding LSU's secondary, Ron Cooper is leaving the Tigers for the NFL to join the coaching staff for the Tamp Bay Bucs. Under Cooper's leadership, LSU produced one of the top defensive backfields in the country the past two seasons. Patrick Peterson and... (More)

Updated: 7:35 PM 2/22/2012

Authorities in Gadsden, Alabama charged a grandmother and stepmother for the death of a 9-year-old who died after having to run as punishment. Joyce Hardin Garrard and Jessica Mae Hardin are charged with murder. Savannah Hardin was made to run for lying and investigators say the incident went on for three hours. Her stepmother later called authorities saying the girl was unresponsive and she died on Monday. An autopsy found she was dehydrated.

Updated: 7:29 PM 2/22/2012

Seventh-ranked LSU (4-0) battled McNeese State (1-2) from start to finish and pulled away in a five-run sixth inning to defeat the Cowboys 11-4 in a Wednesday afternoon matinee at Alex Box Stadium. The 44 runs for LSU over the opening four games is the most for the Tigers... (More)

Updated: 7:27 PM 2/22/2012

Nineteen students and alumni sued the University of California Davis in federal court because of a pepper-spray incident involving campus police last year. The suit is the biggest fallout when police sprayed protesters while sitting who had set up an Occupy camp. It was seen widely online and prompted outrage... (More)

Updated: 7:25 PM 2/22/2012

Southern head football coach Stump Mitchell opened up spring practice on the Bluff, despite rumors that he will be leaving for an NFL assistant coaching job.

Mitchell interviewed with the St. Louis Rams for the vacant running backs coach job on Monday, however he was there on Wednesday when the Jaguars started thier first of 15 spring practice sessions.

Updated: 6:55 PM 2/22/2012

GONZALES - A gun shop owner in Ascension Parish says a recent double murder is on the minds of most of his customers. Irwin Marchand and stepson Doug Dooley were killed inside a home on Babin Road over the weekend. Irwin's wife, Shirley, survived the attack but she remains... (More)

Updated: 6:16 PM 2/22/2012

BATON ROUGE-- George Grace took the stand for the second day in a row. He stayed on the stand all day testifying in his own defense. Grace faces federal extortion, corruption, bribery, racketeering and fraud charges for his part in "Operation Blighted Officials." This is his fifth week of... (More)

Updated: 6:13 PM 2/22/2012

ST. AMANT- Family and friends are just beginning to cope with the loss of two young girls, both killed Tuesday evening, after their mother's car crashed into a bayou near Stringer Bridge Road. Faith Castilaw, 9, and her sister, Patience Lobell, 7, could not escape their mother's car when... (More)

Updated: 6:06 PM 2/22/2012

ST. AMANT- A deadly crash in Ascension parish leaves some wondering if safer roads could have prevented it. Two children died after the car 28-year-old Raelyn Encalade was driving ran off Stringer Bridge road this morning. Faith Encalade, 9, and Patience Lobell, 7, became trapped in the car;... (More)

Updated: 5:18 PM 2/22/2012

BATON ROUGE - Tickfaw State Park will remain closed until Monday due to the rising water level of the Tickfaw River. The Office of State Parks predicts Tickfaw River will crest at 14 feet tonight, Wednesday evening. The high water is impacting the park's entrance, campground, trails, and... (More)

Updated: 4:57 PM 2/22/2012

BATON ROUGE - Louisiana's property insurer of last resort is offering nearly $103 million to settle disputes over its handling of claims after hurricanes Katrina and Rita more than six years ago. The governing board of the Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp. agreed to the latest offer Wednesday, bumping up... (More)

Updated: 4:45 PM 2/22/2012

BATON ROUGE - A section of O'Neal Lane will be closed this Saturday 02/25 and Sunday 02/26 from 8:00pm to 5:00am. The Northbound and Southbound lanes will be closed under I-12 between the on and off ramps of the interstate highway. The I-12 on and off ramps will... (More)

Updated: 4:31 PM 2/22/2012

NEW ORLEANS - By dawn on Wednesday, stately St. Charles Avenue, where tens of thousands spent Mardi Gras feasting, drinking and scrambling for beads, was cleared of mountains of trash left behind by revelers. New Orleans' iconic green streetcars again clacked along the tracks, and in the French Quarter stragglers... (More)