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The East Baton Rouge Parish School System confirms leaders have recommended a teacher at River Oaks Elementary School be terminated after a parent alleges the educator cursed at and bruised her child.

Through her attorney, a Baton Rouge grandmother told the WAFB I-TEAM she was violated inside the infamous Brave Cave back in June.

The company once known as Tiki Tubing has lost a legal fight against the family of Keith Hilliard which has been awarded more than $4 million dollars.

Former Baton Rouge Police Department officer Wade Hill is facing criminal sex charges and a pair of federal lawsuits, alleging he took advantage of women while wearing the badge. The WAFB I-TEAM has learned it’s not the first time he’s been accused of something similar.

Investigators have identified four people of interest so far in the widening investigation into a skimming scheme across the greater Baton Rouge area.

Audio recordings tell the chilling story of what happened as investigators arrested high-ranking Livingston Parish sheriff’s deputy Dennis Perkins.

East Baton Rouge Parish Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome announced that the Baton Rouge Police Department facility known to some officers as the “Brave Cave” will remain closed permanently at an impromptu news conference Thursday, August 31, 2023.

Detectives have now linked a fourth man to a mass shooting last January at the now-shuttered Dior nightclub in Baton Rouge.

Several witnesses gave statements leading police to a suspect in an apparent shootout between two workers for the City of Baker.

Baton Rouge Police leaders joined Mayor Sharon Weston Broome Thursday, Aug. 31, to announce the Baton Rouge Police Department’s Street crimes unit will be disbanded and a criminal investigation into that unit’s activities at a processing and interrogation center known to officer’s as the “Brave Cave” is underway.

In the midst of the fallout from allegations of police misconduct inside the Brave Cave, the WAFB I-TEAM is working to answer the question who knew about the allegations of abuse and how long have they known.

Police body camera footage obtained by the WAFB I-Team shows just how quickly an arrest turned violent outside of Our Lady of the Lake hospital in October of 2022 after former Baton Rouge Police Officer Troy Lawrence Jr. arrived at the scene.

Mayor Broome spoke to members of the media ahead of a news conference Tuesday, Aug. 29., where Baton Rouge Police Department leaders are expected to address the resignation of Officer Troy Lawrence Jr.

An attorney claims his client was brutally beaten in a ‘torture warehouse’ that some members of the Baton Rouge Police Department call the ‘Brave Cave’.

The WAFB I-Team has uncovered new information about the alleged misspending of thousands of public dollars by a former BREC employee.

As students head back to school, the WAFB I-TEAM recently surveyed more than 370 local teachers to get their honest feedback no the challenges they face inside the classroom.

The WAFB I-TEAM has learned Baton Rouge Police officer Troy Lawrence, Jr. Is being investigated for allegedly taking things too far while making an arrest.

A Baton Rouge officer is on leave after the WAFB I-Team exposed his long history of questionable actions on the force, including some that have led to the city-parish paying thousands of dollars in legal settlements.

Sheriff Jason Ard has announced the arrest and firing of one of his own deputies after a hit-and-run investigation Thursday night, Aug. 10.

Accused rapist Anthony Varnado is now formally charged with felony third degree rape after his arrest earlier in the summer on that same charge.

An administrator at a Baton Rouge private school faces formal criminal charges for his arrest in mid-June after he allegedly engaged in sexual misconduct with a student.

Clarence Yarbrough, 37, also known as ‘Messie Cee’, is charged with domestic battery abuse, which is a misdemeanor, and second-degree battery, which is a felony, according to court documents filed Wednesday.

Leaders with the Baton Rouge Police Department confirmed to the WAFB I-TEAM that they are investigating after a video shows a man pushing officers and hitting a woman after chasing her outside a business on Coursey Boulevard near S. Sherwood Forest.

Deputy Travis Clay Depew with the Jackson Marshal’s Office was allowed to resign.

Days after the WAFB I-TEAM started asking questions about it, the speeding ticket enforcement program in Napoleonville has been suspended according to the Assumption Parish Sheriff’s Office.

A deputy marshal in the town of Jackson has been booked on a stalking charge, records show.

Former health business mogul Vishal Vasanji has a little over a month before he must turn himself in to Louisiana’s Attorney General’s Office.

New Orleans city government is making changes to comply with a state law regarding who can issue cremation permits.

Questions are being raised over a new speeding ticket program that has been implemented in the Village of Napoleonville in Assumption Parish.

Anthony Varnado is sitting behind bars in the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison after being arrested last month on a third-degree rape charge.

A woman has filed a federal lawsuit against the Baton Rouge Police Department, Chief Murphy Paul, officer Wade Hill and the city over allegations that the officer sexually assaulted her at the Northgate Apartments in 2022.

A man has been sentenced after crashing a car into a Target located in Hammond and planting fake explosive devices in June of 2020, officials said.

Cody Crump, 31, who was arrested and accused of shooting a woman June 12, 2023 on Victoria Drive after being told to leave her home will stay locked up for now.

The WAFB I-Team has learned the man police have arrested and accused of holding a woman at gunpoint in her home has a lengthy history of violent arrests.

The 2-year-old child died June 26, 2022 and it was determined that fentanyl was in his system at the time.

According to BRPD, Corey Nash, 48, is charged with indecent behavior with juveniles.

It’s not clear when coroners in Louisiana began charging grieving families a fee for the permit needed to cremate their loved ones, but a new legal opinion clearly spells out that there is nothing in state law to support that practice.

A spokesman with the Baton Rouge Police Department confirms they have received a separate complaint against Corey Nash, dean of students at Second Chance Academy.

The woman arrested for a shooting captured on a cellphone camera, Raneshia Pointer, was charged in connection with a shooting in Ascension Parish less than a year ago.

The dean of students at a local private school, in a video provided to WAFB, say he may have let a joke get out of hand with a teenage girl who is accusing him of sending hundreds of dollars to her and coercing her to send explicit photographs.