The Louisiana State Fire Marshal’s Office arrested a woman accused of setting her house on fire with her daughter inside.

The woman and the child were inside at the time of the fire but were able to escape, the State Fire Marshal said Wednesday.

An hourslong standoff at a Baton Rouge extended-stay motel Wednesday ended with the arrest of a man wanted on domestic abuse counts, authorities said. Agents with a U.S. Marshals Office task force ...