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Officials with Louisiana’s Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) are addressing the media Monday, Nov. 7, 2022 about their most recent handling of a case that resulted in the death of 1-year-old Jahrei Paul.

The agency tasked with keeping kids safe across the state, the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS), is now telling the public exactly how they failed another child, only after the WAFB I-TEAM exposed the botched handling of a case that left 1-year-old Jahrei Paul dead.

A 1-year-old boy’s death has been ruled a homicide according to the East Baton Rouge Coroner’s Office.

Teacher accused grooming students for sex at Episcopal School of Baton Rouge has now been fired for his job at Woodlawn High School.

Bryan Cage, the man accused of brutally beating an Ascension Parish cancer patient following a road rage incident is locked up days after the encounter.

The East Baton Rouge Parish School Board placed a Woodlawn High teacher on paid administrative leave Wednesday October 12 following a report by the 9NEWS Investigators about his allegedly troubled past at another school.

A lawsuit filed by a former Episcopal School student lays out salacious allegations against a former teacher at the elite private school in Baton Rouge.

A Louisiana state trooper’s admission that he paid a hotel front desk clerk $200 dollars for sex may have helped him dodge a rape charge while at an out-of-state conference, investigative records obtained by WAFB show.

Gail Roberts is pushing for justice after her son, James Roberts, was killed in a crash on Nicholson Drive last month.

Nearly a year after a judge ordered a man to refund Claudette Davis the almost $4,500 she paid him for a headstone for her son’s grave, the man has still not paid up and her son’s grave remains without a headstone.

A Louisiana man pleaded guilty to one count of kidnapping for his role in a scheme to murder gay men.

The East Baton Rouge school district is doubling down in its defense of the Day of Hope as criticisms pour in about what happened there.

The final moments of Dylan McClendon’s life were captured in a 911 call for help as those around him scrambled to alert first responders.

For many college coaches, it pays to get fired. Over a 17-year period beginning in 2005, public universities have shelled out more than $1.1 billion in buying out the contracts of college coaches, according to an InvestigateTV analysis of NCAA financial data collected by Syracuse University. Most of that money was spent on football coaches who play at the highest level of Division I athletics. As football coaches' annual compensation now stretches into seven digits, massive severance payments also grow bigger and bigger.

A former Louisiana State Police trooper has taken a plea deal more than four years after she was accused of shooting a teenager.

Gov. John Bel Edwards is doubling down on his support for Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) Secretary Marketa Garner Waters.

Lawmakers, former employees, and members of the public testified Tuesday, Sept. 6, that there are problems at DCFS that a hiring spree alone will not fix.

Officials with DCFS are set to go before lawmakers once again. This time they are set to discuss oversight, specifically in the child welfare division.

Campus police at Louisiana State University cited a student accused of grabbing and attempting to follow a person near one of the school’s residence halls.

The man who was arrested and eventually charged in the attempted kidnapping plot at LSU posed as a delivery driver with DoorDash, the 9News Investigators have learned.

An attorney who spent some time as a state senator is hoping his former colleagues will step in after a woman was accused of using her two sons to help her steal.

Surveillance video captures the moment two kids allegedly set a rack of clothing on fire while their mother is accused of stealing from the store.

The East Baton Rouge Metro Council authorized a settlement in connection with a teen shown on body cam video getting strip-searched by an officer with BRPD.

A former employee says enough is enough and just a few months ago, she decided to call it quits at the Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services.

A current employee inside DCFS said the staffing numbers are in free fall as one frontline worker leaves after another, all while cases explode.

Officials with the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) have released the initial findings of the internal investigation into the agency’s handling of a case that resulted in the death of two-year-old Mitchell Robinson, III.

Inspectors shut down a number of pumps at a gas station in Baton Rouge after one woman who filled up there tipped them off about contaminated gas being sold there.

Gov. John Bel Edwards’ says the handling of certain cases by the Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) represents a “real failure.”

A Lake Charles woman is charged with murder after allegedly leaving her baby in her SUV for around five hours Sunday, resulting in the child’s death.

State Rep. Jason Hughes, D-New Orleans, said enough is enough. He believes it’s time for new leadership at the Department of Children and Family Services.

The 9News Investigators have learned technology is one problem that cannot be fixed so easily.

Senate Select Committee on Women and Children added the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) to its agenda for Monday, Aug. 8.

Louisiana's Department of Children and Family Services has been called to answer questions from lawmakers over its handling of cases of abuse and deadly drug exposure.

The new school year is about to start and as kids get ready to head back to the classroom, the 9News Investigators uncovered one key element of their safety that might be missing.

The 9News Investigators have learned that the Department of Children and Family Services is conducting a full review of how the case was handled after the overdose death of a 2-year-old boy.

After dozens of employees have walked out of the EBR Public Defender’s Office recently, Chief Public Defender Lisa Parker addressed the complaints.

One member of the Public Service Commission, Dr. Craig Greene, is pushing for change after his office has gotten hundreds of complaints within the last two weeks about high energy bills.

Auditors hired to review contracts and finances for the Ascension Parish government cautioned this week that one particular lease agreement might be violating the state’s public lease law.

Lawmakers spent two special sessions trying to redraw congressional maps after advocates and members of the legislative Black Caucus pushed for more representation.

Within the last month, there have been at least two tragic scenes that have played out that involved a child somehow getting their hands on a gun and shooting themselves or others.