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• Livingston LIGO, collaborators announce detection of largest observed black hole merger Play Video

  July 15, 2025 11:20 AM

  LIVINGSTON — Ahead of its 10th anniversary celebration in September, Livingston LIGO announced a monumental discovery about black holes earlier this week in Europe. On Monday in Glasgow, Scotland, representatives from the Livingston facility, a Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, announced that it was one of two sites to detect... more »

• Man convicted of drug dealing in 2015 sentenced to 9 years in prison after conviction in 2020 arrest

  January 14, 2025 12:48 PM

  BATON ROUGE — A man previously convicted of drug dealing in 2015 was sentenced to nearly nine years in prison for a 2020 drug and gun arrest. Damond Lockett, 51, was sentenced to 105 months after he was found guilty of dealing heroin and fentanyl, as well as the... more »

• Man sentenced to life in prison for 2015 Thanksgiving murder

  February 10, 2020 6:32 PM

  PLAQUEMINE - A judge sentenced a man to life in prison plus 20 years for his involvement in a murder nearly five years ago. Jerome Gray was convicted for Second Degree Murder back in 2019 after killing Derick Askins on Thanksgiving day in 2015. You can read about the... more »

• Baton Rouge man pleads guilty following 2015 Donaldsonville shooting

  March 21, 2017 11:15 PM

  DONALDSONVILLE - A 28-year-old Baton Rouge man pled guilty to charges on Monday following a 2015 shooting in Donaldsonville. According to District Attorney Ricky Babin, Joshua Green pled guilty to aggravated battery. The guilty plea was the result of a plea agreement with prosecutors. The incident occurred on... more »

• Unsolved murders still a problem in EBR Parish Play Video

  December 28, 2015 7:46 PM

  BATON ROUGE - Unsolved murders remain a problem in East Baton Rouge Parish as 2015 draws to a close, the District Attorney says there have been about 75 murders this year. About half remain unsolved, according to BRPD and the East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office. One of those... more »