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An arson suspect, Christian King, will need to return to court to discuss a pre-trial bail amount.

It’s the first time Breanna Jones has seen her damaged home since the fire. She could only shake her head as she walked past her scorched door and burned belongings.

The fate of a police officer arrested after a deadly high-speed chase is now in the hands of councilmembers in the Town of Addis.

According to BRFD, firefighters rushed to a home on Southmoor Drive near Goodwood Boulevard at around 8:30 a.m.

A judge has spoken, convicting a Jackson deputy marshal of simple battery.

The Louisiana State Police Commission is stripping two troopers of their pay at the request of State Police.

A district judge in Baton Rouge is ordered to reconsider after awarding bond to a convicted killer challenging her life sentence.

Three years after the brutal beating death of Ronald Greene at the tail end of a traffic stop in Monroe, four Louisiana State Police troopers and a Union Parish Sheriff’s deputy have been indicted for their role in what happened.

The WAFB I-TEAM has learned a Texas gymnastics coach arrested on sexual misconduct charges last week has a connection to a facility in the Baton Rouge area.

Sabrina Scott, 35, was arrested during a drug bust this week and was previously investigated by the Department of Children and Family Services according to an internal DCFS report obtained by the WAFB I-TEAM.

East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner Dr. Beau Clark refuses to say if he reimburses the parish for fuel or any other expenses when he drives his public vehicle to a private job 50 miles away in another parish.

An employee with the Zachary City Courthouse was arrested on Wednesday, Nov. 30 after allegedly leaking information to a suspect.

Terri Ricks, the new temporary head of the troubled Department of Children and Family Services went before lawmakers today to lay out her future plans for the agency.

The US Marshal Service Middle Louisiana Fugitive Task Force with the assistance of the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office SWAT team and ATF made an arrest Wednesday, November 16, 2022.

Rhenda Hodnett, a top leader with the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) has announced she plans to retire at the end of the year.

Now that Secretary Marketa Walters is out at the Department of Children and Family Services, Senator Regina Barrow, (D) Baton Rouge, says the agency can finally move forward.

The head of the Department of Children and Family Services, Marketa Garner Walters, has resigned from her post less than a week after Scottie Hunter and the WAFB I-TEAM exposed the agency’s latest misstep which allowed 1-year-old Jarhei Paul to die on their watch October 31, 2022.

The WAFB I-TEAM is tracking the progress of the strike team that has been brought in to help get a handle on the flood of cases in Baton Rouge.

Louisiana’s governor is calling the Department of Children and Family Services’ (DCFS) handling of one its cases an “absolute failure” after a one-year-old boy died of a fentanyl overdose earlier in November.

A Rapides Parish deputy is under investigation by Louisiana State Police (LSP) after killing the brother of one of the agency’s top three officials.

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.

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.