Evangelical author Philip Yancey sold millions of books about the importance of grace. But after confessing to an eight-year ...

Politics dominated this news in Baton Rouge in 2025, from two new mayors to a governor tapped as an envoy to Greenland.

Louisiana's King of Honky Tonk Heaven Jimmy Swaggart was the last surviving musical cousins from Ferriday that included Jerry ...

Whitlock played openly corrupt city councilman Clay Davis on 25 episodes across the five seasons of “The Wire.” ...

With 2026 just ahead, we take time to look back and honor those celebrities and other famous individuals who died in 2025.

She published a New Yorker essay in November revealing that she had been diagnosed with a rare form of acute myeloid leukemia ...

Figures from the realms of politics to sports, from presiding over the Vatican to Temple Square, are among those who died in ...

In a year marked by Donald Trump s return to the White House, peace efforts in the Middle East and Eastern Europe and ...

Connie Francis, 87. The wholesome pop star’s 1950s and ’60s hits included “Pretty Little Baby” and “Who’s Sorry Now?” — the ...

The death of evangelist Jimmy Swaggart was not only among the top Baton Rouge-area religion stories for 2025, but it also ...

He attributed his rags-to-riches ascent to the freedoms of Hong Kong, and has paid a hefty price for defending them. He attributed his rags-to-riches ascent to the freedoms of Hong Kong, and has paid ...

Former Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been found guilty on two national security charges and a lesser sedition charge, in a landmark two-year trial widely viewed as a measure of the city’s ...