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• Wesley United Methodist Church celebrates 159 years

  18-05-2025 21:35
  BATON ROUGE - The Wesley United Methodist Church celebrated 159 years during Sunday's service.The church was founded in May 1866. Reverend J.C. Richardson says the church has evolved since its beginning, becoming a pillar in the community."You've had a number of things regarding voting, regarding the ability to be citizens of the nation, but still and yet, we're here. We did not give up. We're still here and we're never going to give up," Rev. Dr. J.C. Richardson said.The pastor said that while
  
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• Deputy headed to reported stabbing outside Goodwill involved in crash

  18-05-2025 21:18
  BATON ROUGE - A deputy who was on the way to a reported stabbing at a Goodwill was involved in a crash along Coursey Boulevard. Sources said the stabbing was reported at 6:40 p.m. at the Goodwill on Coursey. About 20 minutes later, an East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's deputy who was responding to the situation hit a vehicle that was at the Coursey Boulevard and Airline Highway intersection. A spokesperson for the sheriff's office said that the other driver was okay and walking
  
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• Mid City on display during Sunday's garden tours

  18-05-2025 20:53
  BATON ROUGE - Friends of LSU Hilltop Arboretum provided a historic tour of the Garden District neighborhood in Mid City Baton Rouge on Sunday. Home gardens and pollinator gardens that dot Camellia Avenue were on display during the tour. Gardeners say that the tour is another way to inspire prospective gardeners and further the creativity of people who already have a green thumb. The annual event will be back in the spring of 2026. Permalink| Comments
  
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• Baton Rouge residents flock to annual Soul Food Festival

  18-05-2025 20:43
  BATON ROUGE - Sunday was the last day of the 2025 Baton Rouge Soul Food Festival. People around the capital region came out to the Goodwood Main Library to enjoy music, shop at different vendors and taste food from the area. Organizers said the festival is a good way to educate people about African American culture. "We thought what would be more important than to do the educational process of where soul food came from, and then invite soul food people back together e
  
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• Addis native runner-up on American Idol

  18-05-2025 19:17
  ADDIS - Hometown hero John Foster was almost there, placing second in the 2025 American Idol competition. The 18-year-old Brusly High graduate and LSU student sang his way through the competition to the Top 2 on Sunday night. Foster brought pride to West Baton Rouge Parish through picking songs with Louisiana flair and an original song that hits close to home. Foster's final performance was "Tell That Angel That I Love Her," a song he wrote about his friend Maggie Dunn. She an
  
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• Biden has been diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer

  18-05-2025 15:34
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, his office said Sunday.Biden was seen last week by doctors after urinary symptoms and a prostate nodule was found. He was diagnosed with prostate cancer on Friday, with the cancer cells having spread to the bone. His office said he has stage 9 cancer.“While this represents a more aggressive form of the disease, the cancer appears to be hormone-sensitive which allows for effective management
  
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• Man accused of killing girlfriend died Sunday evening, sources say

  18-05-2025 15:10
  BATON ROUGE - Casey Warren, a man who allegedly left his girlfriend to die after a domestic altercation Sunday morning, died that same evening. The Baton Rouge Police Department said that officers were called to a home near the corner of Gerald and San Clemente drives around 10 a.m. and found 31-year-old Elissia Thomas dead. The situation is being investigated as a domestic homicide. Warren, 37, who was the woman's boyfriend or significant other, was initially sought by police
  
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• BRPD: Man who killed girlfriend shot himself hours later

  18-05-2025 15:10
  BATON ROUGE - Police say a man who killed his girlfriend Sunday morning shot himself that evening. Baton Rouge Police officers were looking for 37-year-old Casey Warren, a man who allegedly left his girlfriend to die after a domestic altercation Sunday morning. BRPD said officers were called to a home near the corner of Gerald and San Clemente drives around 10 a.m. and found 31-year-old Elissia Thomas dead. Police said that Warren was found dead Sunday night, with a s
  
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• Authorities identify 25-year-old suspect in Palm Springs, California, fertility clinic bombing

  18-05-2025 13:42
  The FBI has identified a 25-year-old California man as the person they say is responsible for the explosion of a Palm Springs fertility clinic.Authorities say the suspect, Guy Edward Bartkus of Twentynine Palms, is the same person who was found near a charred-out vehicle by the clinic.Akil Davis, the head of the FBI’s Los Angeles field office, said during a Sunday news conference that investigators were reviewing writings left behind by Bartkus that could shed light on his state of mi
  
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• Reward increased for capture of escaped New Orleans inmates as 7 remain on the lam

  18-05-2025 12:54
  NEW ORLEANS, La. (AP) — Officials increased the reward for the capture of seven inmates who escaped from a New Orleans jail by fleeing through a hole behind a toilet as at least a dozen law enforcement agencies pressed their expansive search for the men for a third day on Sunday.FBI Special Agent Jonathan Trapp said at a news conference that seven of the 10 men who originally escaped on Friday are still at large and that the FBI is offering $10,000 per inmate instead of the $5,000 pre
  
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• 2 On Your Side: What does healthcare do for you? A look into the industry from seniors needing care

  18-05-2025 12:45
  BATON ROUGE - What does your health care do for you? Several families who have reached out to 2 On Your Side say their health care has not lived up to their expectations. Each case involves a person who is above 80 years old and has served the community and country in different capacities.DONNA CHARETT
  "Who goes without bacon? I don't know a single southerner that's going to go without eating bacon," DeAnna Charett said.She jokes, but bacon is one of the foods her mom, Donna Charett, can no lon
  
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