When Baton Rouge inspectors determine a blighted property is unsafe, the city-parish government can ask the Metro Council to convene a hearing to hold the owners accountable and decide if the ...

Lynch was then transported to a Baton Rouge hospital for treatment, according to police. He died from his injuries shortly after midnight. Officers detained the driver and another passenger in the ...

The five officers, who are also Black, chased down Nichols and punched, kicked and hit him with a police baton, struggling to handcuff him as he called out for his mother just steps from his home.