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Posted 5:54 PM 12/11/2024 by Bess Casserleigh

CENTRAL - Central Mayor Wade Evans is concerned with the state of the city's police department following the recent arrest of one of its officers for payroll fraud.

Former Lt. Huey Haley is accused of stealing more than $24,000 from the department through incorrect timesheets.

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Posted 12:43 PM 12/12/2024 by Bess Casserleigh

UPDATE: A Bylaws Committee meeting scheduled for Thursday, Dec. 12, in which the changes were going to be discussed was postponed indefinitely Thursday morning. No reason for the schedule change was given.

Read the WBRZ Investigative Unit report below.

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Posted 3:45 PM 12/11/2024 by Bess Casserleigh, Sarah Lawrence

ST. GABRIEL - Elayn Hunt Correctional Facility, which is already under investigation by state police for (More)

Posted 3:18 PM 12/4/2024 by Logan Cullop

BATON ROUGE - A man who was jailed in August for a murder six months prior was formally charged Wednesday. 

Tremayne "Meezy" Lindsey was indicted for second-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder. The charges are connected to a shooting Feb. 9 that left Tedrick Owens dead (More)

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Posted 6:00 PM 12/3/2024 by Bess Casserleigh

BATON ROUGE - A six-year-old civil suit against the City of Baton Rouge for its red-light ticket program has received the green light to move forward.

If the suit goes the way similar litigation in the state has, Baton Rouge could be on the hook for tens of millions of dollars. New Orleans (More)

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Posted 6:25 PM 11/27/2024 by Bess Casserleigh

ADDIS - After issuing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of speeding tickets that Attorney General Liz Murrill says are illegal, the Ward Two Constable's (More)

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Posted 5:39 PM 11/26/2024 by Bess Casserleigh & Logan Cullop

ADDIS - Attorney General Liz Murrill says recent speeding citations alleging violations in school zones along La. 1 are illegal, nullifying hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines that could have been collected. 

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Posted 3:00 PM 11/26/2024 by Bess Casserleigh

BATON ROUGE - A particular stretch of interstate in Baton Rouge has turned out to be one of the most dangerous this year, not because of crashes, but for shootings.

Interstate 110 had six shootings in 2024, four of them were fatal. 

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Posted 5:57 PM 11/20/2024 by Bess Casserleigh & Logan Cullop

BATON ROUGE — A man accused of killing two people in a drunk-driving crash has a long list of dismissed traffic violations and was convicted of a crime of abuse, the WBRZ Investigative (More)

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Posted 12:37 PM 11/20/2024 by Bess Casserleigh

BATON ROUGE — Louis Robinson was 29 when he was gunned down in the middle of the day. He left behind three children and a mother who still don't know why he was taken from them.

Robinson was known as rapper Louis Badazz. In 2018, he had a hit on the local radio called 'Let Me Thru (More)

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Posted 2:32 PM 11/15/2024 by Bess Casserleigh

CENTRAL - Prominent Baton Rouge defense attorney Lewis Unglesby alleges his client, former Central Police Lt. Huey Haley, was unjustly targeted.

"The charges in Central against my client Huey Haley are ill-founded," Unglesby said. "We don't agree that he did anything improper (More)