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• After WBRZ inquiry, state blocks the release of sex offender who molested boys Play Video

  April 4, 2022 4:58 PM

  BATON ROUGE- The Department of Corrections blocked the release of a sex offender who was scheduled to get out of prison in a matter of hours after the WBRZ Investigative Unit began asking questions Monday. Todd Michael Duquette molested at least five boys in East Baton Rouge Parish and... more »

• Lawmakers end historic veto session without overriding any of governor's vetoes Play Video

  July 21, 2021 3:11 PM

  BATON ROUGE - Despite getting enough support to launch an unprecedented veto session, lawmakers in the Louisiana House and Senate failed to revive any of the bills vetoed by Governor John Bel Edwards. Two major focuses of the session were proposals for permitless concealed carrying of a handgun and... more »

• Police arrest four Slidell teens in connection to a murder Friday

  October 19, 2019 3:39 PM

  SLIDELL - Authorities have booked four teenagers for allegedly killing and robbing a 33-year-old man Friday morning. According to police the incident happened shortly before 9:30 a.m. at the Slidell Housing Authority at 1150 Martin Luther King Drive. When officers arrived on scene they found Andre Johnson dead inside... more »

• Man arrested for beating nine-year-old and four-year-old boys

  October 19, 2016 11:12 AM

  BATON ROUGE – A man was arrested after beating his girlfriend's nine-year-old and four-year-old sons. 29-year-old Solomon Tramaine Commenia was arrested on two counts of cruelty to juveniles after the East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office received a complaint about the physical abuse of two boys. The nine-year-old boy... more »

• Reporter: Hakkens spotted at marina in Cuba

  April 9, 2013 2:56 PM

  CUBA- A man identified himself to CNN as Joshua Hakken, the man accused of kidnapping his two sons from his wife's mother last week. CNN reported that Hakken briefly talked with a network reporter in Havana. Hakken's blue sailboat was also docked at a marina, where the conversation took... more »