A grand jury convened in Shreveport, La. has determined enough evidence exists to indict former Louisiana State Police trooper Jacob Brown for using excessive force during a 2019 arrest in Monroe, La.
McLindon says Dean did nothing wrong. As Attorney General Jeff Landry’s Office looks into what happened, he is firm- his client will not face any criminal charges.
A spokesman with the Baton Rouge Police Department confirms that different divisions within the agency have come together to combat violent crime and drugs in the capital city.
The seven nursing homes involved have been shut down and the man behind them is being investigated. The lawsuit filed last week also blames the Louisiana Department of Health, holding them equally responsible for what happened.
Attorneys representing a hospice patient, who was among more than 850 nursing homes patients evacuated to a warehouse in Tangipahoa Parish before Hurricane Ida announced they are filing a lawsuit against the nursing home’s owner and the Louisiana Department of Health (LDH).
Lawsuits are mounting against Bob Dean, the owner of seven nursing homes and the warehouse he used to shelter hundreds of residents during Hurricane Ida
Not long after the head of Louisiana State Police announced sweeping changes within the state’s top law enforcement agency, Congressman Troy Carter is calling on the Department of Justice to look into the agency
An AP review of investigative records and newly obtained videos identified at least a dozen cases in which troopers or bosses ignored or concealed evidence.
The state says it will yank the license of seven nursing home facilities that evacuated nearly 900 people to a makeshift storm shelter in Independence where seven people later died.
Louisiana officials said just before Hurricane Ida roared ashore, someone made the call to empty out seven different nursing homes - evacuating the people to a warehouse in Tangipahoa Parish.
Four nursing home residents died at a facility in Tangipahoa Parish that housing more than 800 residents who had been evacuated from the New Orleans area, officials with the Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) announced on Thursday, Sept. 2.
At the height of the storm, AT&T told WAFB they were severely impacted by the conditions. Days after the storm, representatives with the company said they’ve made significant progress with about 90 percent of their customers reconnected.
A woman is demanding action to make the Amite River safer months after a family day on the water left her family shattered. Lisa Hilliard is left asking why her husband of 26 years, Keith, had to die.
BRPD Corporal Ken Camallo’s team went before the Municipal Civil Service Board today to argue that a 200-day suspension levied against the officer by the department violates the law. This comes just more than two months after he was demoted in rank from a sergeant to a corporal and slapped with the suspension.
As complaints continue to pour in against Republic Services over missed garbage pickups, the 9News Investigators have learned the company has dumped thousands of dollars into local political campaigns for years.
Auditors with the Louisiana Legislative Auditors Office found the East Baton Rouge city-parish could not provide adequate proof to justify the cost of the contract for the engineering firm chosen to design the stormwater master plan.
A family is taking aim at one of the usual problem spots that frequently takes on water in Baton Rouge after their loved one died during flash flooding in May 2021 along Bluebonnet Boulevard.
Lori Wright is now taking her legal fight to federal court about a year after she says she was roughed up by deputies in West Baton Rouge. She claims they left bruises on her face and for some reason, took her phone, confiscating it for weeks.
The twin brothers accused of defrauding the state of Louisiana out of more than $800,000 have been released from jail after being arrested Friday, July 9, 2021.
A man and his twin brother have been indicted for a scheme to defraud the state out of more than $800,000 during the 2020 hurricane season according to prosecutors in West Baton Rouge Parish.
They were a lifeline at the height of the pandemic. Chrome books allowed students to continue to learn when the coronavirus kept them out of the classroom but as things with the virus calm down, the 9News Investigators have learned hundreds of those devices paid for with taxpayer money have been lost, are missing or reported stolen in area school districts.
The FBI has ordered a new look at the autopsy and other evidence, including body camera video from Louisiana State Police Troopers of the arrest that led to the death of Ronald Greene in May 2019, according to a report from the Associated Press (AP).
The investigation into a New Orleans-based FBI agent accused of multiple sex crimes, including rape and offenses involving children, could stretch beyond the state of Louisiana, a source familiar with the probe said Friday.
The violent and deadly arrest of Ronald Greene at the hands of Louisiana State Police troopers could go before a grand jury in the next few months according to the Greene family legal team.
The head of the Louisiana Workforce Commission is responding to an audit one day after it revealed workers within the agency paid about $1 million in unemployment benefits to hundreds of dead people.
A Baton Rouge Police Department spokesman confirms to the 9 News Investigators that a high-ranking officer has been demoted and suspended tied to an ongoing investigation into searches he conducted on the clock without a warrant.
The Louisiana Legislative Auditor’s office reported the Louisiana Workforce Commission paid out more than $1 million in state and federal unemployment insurance payments to 347 dead people.
Sexual misconduct claims against Keith Cunningham could go to trial, a Louisiana attorney hopes. A court filing details employee allegations that Cunningham made sexual advances toward a woman under his leadership.
District Attorney Hillar Moore said his office will “look at any and all information that’s out there” related to the 2013 death of Dontrunner “Trun” Robinson during a raid by Baton Rouge Police Department narcotics detectives.
Dozens of people formed a circle at Galvez Plaza over the weekend praying and calling for “Justice for Trun,” a man who died in 2013 during an encounter with Baton Rouge Police narcotics detectives
Shocking search video showing an invasive police search of a minor in Baton Rouge is making the rounds again. The case ended in a settlement with the city but now the law professor who released the video facing fire from parish attorneys as this spirals into another court fight. Three weeks after the video was made public showing BRPD officers strip search a 16-year-old and his brother before entering the young men’s home without a warrant, the parish attorney’s office now wants the law professor who put the video out locked up.
Legislative auditors and leaders with the Louisiana Workforce Commission (LWC) are at odds over whether employees at LWC broke the rules after an audit shows they got double paychecks at the height of the pandemic.
An audit conducted by the Louisiana Legislative Auditor’s Office has identified several instances where employees with the Louisiana Workforce Commission (LWC) may have been improperly paid for extra hours and in violation of State Civil Service Rules.
In body camera video obtained by the 9News Investigators, a Baton Rouge police officer can be seen strip-searching a 16-year-old and his older brother during a traffic stop in broad daylight.
Days after parts of the video was leaked to the media showing the deadly 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene, in a short-notice news conference, Louisiana State Police addressed the matter head on, two years after the fact. Head of the agency, Colonel Lamar Davis vowed sweeping changes within the law enfor
Beaten and shackled by Louisiana state troopers, Black motorist Ronald Greene desperately tried to roll over in what may have been a struggle to breathe but was ordered to stay on his belly, according to body-camera video newly obtained by The Associated Press.
One day after body camera video was put out showing the deadly 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene, 49, Gov. John Bel Edwards is weighing in on the release of the video.
From a $1,400 vacuum cleaner to a total home fitness gym or even an upright bike, taxpayers have bought a lot for the state of Louisiana over the last five years.
The man police say killed a former Southern University employee after allegedly breaking into his home two weeks ago is facing several charges, adding to what documents already reveal about his criminal history.
