Darryl Hurst News Today

A lawsuit claiming former East Baton Rouge Mayor Pro Tem Scott Wilson acted to suppress the voice of Black residents in Baton Rouge by removing them from the council chambers

The Juvenile Detention Center and the East Baton Rouge Parish Jail Task Force held a public meeting to discuss possible updates to the dilapidated facilities.

Decayed white ceilings speckled in black moldy circles. Jagged, rusty metal protruding from old air vents. A glue trap of live, wriggling mice stationed mere feet away from a tray

Baton Rouge voters will have the opportunity this fall to let their voices be heard on a tax that would raise pay for firefighters in the city.

The East Baton Rouge Parish Housing Authority will host its first free Community Health Fair from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday at Zion Terrace Apartments, 5958 Cadillac St.

BATON ROUGE — East Baton Rouge Parish Councilman Darryl Hurst hosted a Fitness Fest

Dorothy Thomas, 81, remembers when people walked around her Glen Oaks neighborhood without fear. But in recent years, violence has made people afraid, she says.

BATON ROUGE - Last November, a fire badly damaged the former Glen Oaks Middle school building. Since then, neighbors say it has been a site of frequent vandalism.

Two teenagers accused of murder were able to escape the East Baton Rouge Juvenile Detention Center last month because a switchboard that was supposed to tell staff that doors were

BATON ROUGE - The media were not given access inside the East Baton Rouge Juvenile Detention Center on Wednesday, but members of the task force created to improve it were not impressed by what they were allowed to see.