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• State seeking volunteers for Louisiana Book Festival

  September 18, 2023 4:22 PM

  BATON ROUGE - The State Library is looking for volunteers to help put on its annual book festival, a "flagship celebration of readers, writers, and their books." The Louisiana Book Festival is scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 28, and those interested can participate in downtown Baton Rouge at the State... more »

• Louisiana-born author Anne Rice dies at 80

  December 12, 2021 5:39 PM

  NEW YORK (AP) — Anne Rice, the novelist whose lush, best-selling gothic tales, including “Interview With a Vampire,” reinvented the blood-drinking immortals as tragic antiheroes, has died. She was 80. Rice died late Saturday due to complications from a stroke, her son Christopher Rice announced on her Facebook page... more »

• In new memoir, Matthew McConaughey opens up about sexual abuse experienced as a teen

  October 22, 2020 1:07 PM

  In his new memoir, “Greenlights,” award-winning actor Matthew McConaughey openly addresses several disturbing incidents of sexual abuse he experienced as a teenager, Variety reports. Released on Tuesday, the memoir takes readers through crucial moments in the 50-year-old star's life - moments that McConaughey identifies as either green, yellow or... more »

• East Baton Rouge Libraries change operation hours due to COVID-19

  March 15, 2020 10:31 PM

  EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH - All EBRP Libraries will change their hours of operation starting Monday, March 16. All locations are increasing their effort to prevent the spread of the virus and will include these steps: Effective Monday, March 16, Library hours of operation will be modified... more »

• Runnels School set to close, tuition money lost Play Video

  March 8, 2020 8:39 PM

  BATON ROUGE - Runnels School in Baton Rouge will close at the end of the school year. The school's administration made the announcement Sunday in an email to parents. School leaders decided to close down the entire K-12 private school due to a decrease in enrollment and other financial... more »

• Officials hoping to open downtown library before May Play Video

  February 20, 2020 10:23 PM

  BATON ROUGE - A dreary stretch of weather isn't washing away the brand new look of the River Center Branch Library. It's also not stopping progress from being made. Inside the modern structure, books are starting to appear on shelves and more furniture is being built and installed, signaling... more »

• Police looking for thief who stole from LSU bookstore

  February 13, 2020 5:31 PM

  BATON ROUGE - Campus police is asking the community to help identify this man suspected of stealing from the LSU Book Store. The unknown culprit was caught on camera on in the store on Wednesday around 3:15 p.m. If you know the identity of the subject, please contact... more »

• Black History Month: Ernest Gaines Play Video

  February 25, 2019 12:27 AM

  OSCAR - The first printing press came to Louisiana through New Orleans more than 250 years ago in 1764. Since then, Louisiana writers, such as Kate Chopin and Grace King, have put the Cajun and Creole cultures into words but none told the story of people of color. That is... more »

• Woman falls in love with the 'abandoned Baton Rouge' Play Video

  January 5, 2019 10:30 PM

  BATON ROUGE- One man's trash is another man's treasure, we've all heard it before, but one out of towner is proving that through art. A pet project now reminding us of what once was. Dilapidated, rundown, blighted there are dozens of words that could be used to describe buildings... more »

• Twin Oaks Elementary School receives new books following flood Play Video

  October 18, 2016 5:58 PM

  BATON ROUGE – Twin Oaks Elementary school received 1,000 new books for its students following the August flood. Just two weeks ago, the school was still under construction with empty book shelves until First Book and Conn's Home Plus donated books to the school for students to take home.... more »

• River Center Library to close for construction Tuesday

  July 1, 2016 3:51 PM

  BATON ROUGE – With construction starting soon on a new downtown library, the East Baton Rouge Parish Library will close its River Center Branch Library Tuesday night. According to a statement Friday, the River Center Branch Library located at 120 St. Louis St. will be closed effective July... more »

• Bookstores sue over La. age-verification law

  November 4, 2015 3:20 PM

  BATON ROUGE - A pair of Louisiana booksellers joined civil rights groups to file a lawsuit Wednesday over a new law requiring publishers to put age gates on their websites. The American Civil Liberties Union and Media Coalition filed the suit on behalf of Garden District Book Shop and... more »