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A family owned news station serving the Baton Rouge area since 1955.
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🩷God bless all the women who shared your survival stories with me. Your strength is inspiring. This is Ingrid Bowman who discovered she had an aggressive type of breast cancer after a routine mammogram. Today she is cancer free! 🙏🏻#breastcancerawareness🎀

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Grateful for the opportunity to job shadow morning reporter Mia Monet on Thursday! From watching live reporting in the field and in-studio to practicing my own live shot, standup, and editing a story, it was a valuable hands-on learning experience. Thank you Mia, WBRZ, and Dr. Barthelemy for this great opportunity! 🤍 #broadcastjournalism

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💙 AUTISM ISN’T JUST SOMETHING I SUPPORT. IT’S SOMETHING I LIVE.

Being the father of a son with autism has opened my eyes to a world that many people will never fully understand.

I’ve witnessed the struggles, the frustration, the misunderstood behaviors, the silent battles, and the challenges that don’t always make it to social media.

I’ve also witnessed strength, resilience, unconditional love, and victories that others might consider small but mean EVERYTHING to us.

What people see for a few minutes, some families live with every single day.

Before you stare, judge, laugh, criticize, or make assumptions about someone’s behavior, understand that you may be witnessing a battle you know absolutely nothing about.

Not every disability is visible. Not every struggle can be explained. And not every person experiences the world the way you do.

My son doesn’t need the world to feel sorry for him. He needs the world to make room for him and kids like him.

They deserves dignity. They deserves respect. They deserves patience. They deserves opportunities. And most importantly, they deserve to exist in this world without constantly having to fit someone else’s definition of normal.

I’m not sharing this for sympathy. I’m sharing it because too many people remain silent until autism affects someone they love.

One day, my son will have to navigate parts of this world without me standing beside him. And that is exactly why awareness, understanding, and acceptance matter so much to me TODAY.

I’m not asking the world to understand every challenge. I’m asking the world to have enough humanity to care.

AUTISM DOESN’T MAKE MY SON LESS HUMAN. A LACK OF COMPASSION MAKES THE WORLD LESS HUMANE. 💙

#AutismAwareness #AutismAcceptance #AutismDad #DifferentNotLess #AutismAdvocacy
UnderstandingMatters MySonMyWhy

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If we go there’s just no telling how far they’ll go!!!

Join us Baton Rouge! This December 9 & 10th for a magical theatre performance brought to you by our Redstick U students 🎭

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#batonrougeevents #redstickcares #thisdecember #batonrougela

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#shredfest #comeshredandrecycle

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It’s an Opening Day tradition! Louisiana First News, WAFB Channel 9, and WBRZ Channel 2 joined us today to greet the sun and the sights and sounds of the fair. #11daysoffun #ebrfamilyfun #6decadesstrong #gbrsf2026

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🎡It’s opening day for the state fair! #batonrouge * @gbrstatefair Oct. 22 – Nov. 1
* Location: Airline Highway Park/Fairgrounds, 16072 Airline Hwy
* ‼️This is expected to be the last year at the Airline Highway site before a planned move.

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🎉💜 WEEKLY GIVEAWAY WINNER! 💜🎉

Congratulations to Mason Bourg from The @lipseysguns GunRunners Team!, our winner in the Alzheimer’s Services 2026 Walk to Remember Weekly Giveaway! 🥳

Thank you to everyone who has participated and helped us spread awareness and support the mission of Alzheimer’s Services of the Capital Area. Every step, every share, and every act of support helps us make a difference for individuals and families impacted by Alzheimer’s and other memory-related impairments. 💜

Stay tuned… you could be our next winner! 👀🎁

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BATON ROUGE - Due to recent controversy involving the effectiveness of Title IX both locally and nationally, the WBRZ Investigative Unit looked at data LSU is required to report and found that of the 300 sexual assault reports made from 2022 to 2025, only three resulted in discipline.

In the case of LSU student Kendall Danielle, who claims she was raped by an LSU football player, her accused rapist was given a two-semester suspension.

Another woman who spoke to the WBRZ Investigative Unit anonymously said her alleged abuser was given a suspension and a note in his transcript.

At Cornell University in New York, seven students were allegedly allowed to write essays to avoid punishment after they were accused by another student of gang rape.

Adopted in 1972, Title IX is a federal statute intended to prohibit sex or gender discrimination in an educational setting.

According to Baton Rouge Attorney Michael Victorian, sexual assault and domestic violence fall under Title IX because they are offenses based on gender. Sexual harassment or abuse is considered an impediment to equal access to education, according to Victorian.

Though sexual assault is a crime, he says the Title IX process and criminal investigation are separate from one another. If someone is found responsible in a Title IX proceeding, it doesn’t have an impact on if they are guilty or not.

An educational institution cannot bring criminal charges, and it is not required to report crimes to police; however following the Husch-Blackwell report in 2020 that detailed massive failures in how LSU handled and reported Title IX complaints, the state legislature passed a new law requiring state universities to publish information on sexual assault claims.

Publicly available data across the entire LSU system show 331 sexual assault claims (291 of which were at LSU’s main campus) were made through Title IX from 2022 to 2025. Of those 331 cases, 303, or more than 91 percent, were reported as closed. READ MORE ON @wbrz

#wesojiggacity #viral #explorepage #blog #batonrouge

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Cat Haven was featured on WBRZ Channel 2! 🐾💜

Thank you to WBRZ for highlighting our new Mid City facility and our annual Cat Tales & Cocktails gala!

With this year’s gala having just taken place, we want to thank everyone who attended, donated, and helped make the evening such a success. Your support makes a difference for the cats and kittens in our care!

We’re excited for this new chapter at Cat Haven and all that’s to come!

#CatHaven #BatonRouge #ShelterCat #AdoptableCats #BatonRougeCats

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Spending my Sunday picking up donations for Love, Peace & Provisions. If you can’t come to the November 14 giveback but would like to still donate, DON’T WORRY! Our team will come to you! We are still in need of gently used coats, beanies, gloves, hygiene products and canned goods. If you don’t feel like going to the store but still want to help, DON’T WORRY! Our team will do the shopping for you! Just check out the link in our bio to give. Help us be the change we want to see. #bethechange #community #giveback #winteriscoming #foryoupage

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Congratulations to our very own, Senior running back Jourden Hickerson on winning WBRZ Fans Choice and the Advocate Player of the Week! Way to Geaux Jourden!

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