Kevin Foster
Updated: 18 hours ago
|By Kevin Foster
District Judge Brad Myers on Monday denied a request from prosecutors to reconsider an 18-month sentence in a high-profile Baton Rouge deadly shooting case.
Updated: Jul. 17, 2024 at 6:42 PM CDT
|By Kevin Foster
Two women were handed judgments in a Baton Rouge district court Wednesday for their roles in the 2023 shooting death of 12-year-old Cedrica Lee.
Updated: Jul. 12, 2024 at 6:13 PM CDT
|By Kevin Foster
The chief federal judge for the Middle District of Louisiana has ruled that the Baton Rouge Police Department’s current strip search policy is unconstitutional and has issued a preliminary injunction to stop the agency from allowing officers to justify strip searches using that policy.
Updated: Jul. 12, 2024 at 5:36 PM CDT
|By Kevin Foster
Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome has issued a statement late Friday after a federal judge said part of BRPD’s policy used to justify strip searches violates the constitutional rights of suspects.
Updated: Jul. 12, 2024 at 12:36 PM CDT
|By Kevin Foster
Lamendola’s Supermarket in Gonzales accepted donations to help the daughter of Brenda Thomas-Morris, a longtime cook who was gunned down in June.
Updated: Jul. 3, 2024 at 4:33 PM CDT
|By Kevin Foster
The Louisiana Special School District has revealed personal information including social security numbers, medical information, and addresses may have been accessed in a ransomware attack.
Updated: Jul. 3, 2024 at 1:44 PM CDT
|By Kevin Foster
The former Baton Rouge high school athletic coach accused of coaxing a student into a sexual relationship entered a tentative guilty plea to several charges.
Updated: Jul. 3, 2024 at 12:50 PM CDT
|By Kevin Foster
A grand jury returned an indictment Wednesday, July 3, against a woman accused of killing her girlfriend in March.
Updated: Jul. 2, 2024 at 1:54 PM CDT
|By Kevin Foster
“I just want people to know that the world lost an amazing person who didn’t deserve to die like this.”
Updated: Jul. 2, 2024 at 1:49 PM CDT
|By Kevin Foster
State lawmakers have made a formal plea to the justices of the Louisiana State Supreme Court to request that they investigate the East Baton Rouge Family Court.
Updated: Jun. 12, 2024 at 10:41 PM CDT
|By Kevin Foster
Justices of Louisiana’s State Supreme Court are breathing new life into a “lawsuit lookback window” which the court had previously ruled was unconstitutional.
Updated: May. 31, 2024 at 10:49 PM CDT
|By Kevin Foster
The mother of Baton Rouge athlete Mike Hollins, Brenda Hollins, was joined by the families of other victims of a shooting rampage at the University of Virginia (UVA) in November of 2022.
Updated: May. 30, 2024 at 6:51 PM CDT
|By Scottie Hunter and Kevin Foster
The WAFB I-TEAM has learned a special grand jury could decide, any day now, whether five BRPD officers will face formal charges tied to an alleged beating and coverup from 2020.
Updated: May. 30, 2024 at 4:40 PM CDT
|By Kevin Foster
A state cyber incident response task force and Louisiana’s Special School District (SSD) are working together to investigate a cyber incident involving the district’s system.
Updated: May. 30, 2024 at 12:53 PM CDT
|By Scottie Hunter and Kevin Foster
A special grand jury has been convened to exclusively review criminal accusations against four Baton Rouge Police officers who were arrested last year.
Updated: May. 16, 2024 at 12:31 PM CDT
|By Kevin Foster
A search warrant obtained by the WAFB I-TEAM details the raid of Impact Charter School in Baker earlier this week.
Updated: May. 9, 2024 at 11:38 AM CDT
|By Mykal Vincent, Bria Gremillion and Kevin Foster
NBA YoungBoy is facing 63 counts related to a large-scale prescription drug fraud investigation.
Updated: Oct. 9, 2023 at 6:15 PM CDT
|By Kevin Foster
Negligent homicide and malfeasance charges are still in place for Kory York - a Louisiana state trooper charged in connection with the use-of-force death of Ronald Greene - despite attempts by a defense attorney to see those charges dismissed.
Updated: Oct. 6, 2023 at 6:43 PM CDT
|By Kevin Foster
An East Baton Rouge Metro Council member is leading the charge to raise private money to repair a home damaged during a January raid tied to the Brave Cave.
Updated: Oct. 6, 2023 at 6:10 PM CDT
|By Kevin Foster
For the first time Mayor Sharon Weston Broome confirmed she will not consider anyone who is investigated for misconduct tied to the Brave Cave to take over as chief of the Baton Rouge Police Department.
Updated: Sep. 29, 2023 at 11:47 AM CDT
|By Kevin Foster
In the midst of a corruption scandal within the Baton Rouge Police Department and numerous investigations targeting its officers, a prominent Baton Rouge attorney is now suing the department over its policies surrounding strip-searches.
Updated: Jan. 25, 2023 at 7:24 PM CST
|By Kevin Foster
A Louisiana man was sentenced to 45 years in prison after pleading guilty to one count of kidnapping for his role in a scheme to murder gay men.
Updated: Oct. 12, 2022 at 2:44 PM CDT
|By Kevin Foster and Raley Pellittieri
Multiple robbers made off with a “significant” amount of money during an early morning heist of a video poker parlor in Assumption Parish, investigators said.
Updated: Sep. 16, 2022 at 1:45 PM CDT
|By Kevin Foster
Southern University is considering a curfew at its Baton Rouge campus after a fight on campus Tuesday, Sept. 13.
Updated: Sep. 7, 2022 at 5:07 PM CDT
|By Kevin Foster
An online video of an apparent fight involving FedEx contractors is gaining traction on social media. In response, a FedEx official announced some of the men involved are no longer providing services for the company.
Updated: Sep. 1, 2022 at 6:53 PM CDT
|By Kevin Foster
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.
Updated: Sep. 1, 2022 at 6:44 PM CDT
|By Scottie Hunter and Kevin Foster
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.
Updated: Aug. 22, 2022 at 3:04 PM CDT
|By Kevin Foster
WAFB has confirmed the Baton Rouge Police Department is investigating after a fight led to one of its officers using a taser to break up the altercation.
Updated: Aug. 19, 2022 at 3:47 PM CDT
|By Scottie Hunter and Kevin Foster
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.
Updated: Aug. 16, 2022 at 5:35 PM CDT
|By Kevin Foster and Scottie Hunter
Gov. John Bel Edwards’ says the handling of certain cases by the Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) represents a “real failure.”
Updated: Aug. 8, 2022 at 10:17 PM CDT
|By Scottie Hunter and Kevin Foster
Senate Select Committee on Women and Children added the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) to its agenda for Monday, Aug. 8.
Updated: Aug. 5, 2022 at 6:37 PM CDT
|By Scottie Hunter and Kevin Foster
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.
Updated: Aug. 3, 2022 at 6:47 PM CDT
|By Scottie Hunter and Kevin Foster
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.
Updated: Jul. 20, 2022 at 10:21 PM CDT
|By Kevin Foster
Authorities are investigating the death of an inmate at Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, Department of Corrections spokesman Ken Pastorick said.
Updated: Jul. 15, 2022 at 11:50 AM CDT
|By Kevin Foster
A former Louisiana state senator was caught on camera saying he’d “go to the sheriff” to report an Assumption Parish sheriff’s deputy who criticized his so-called speeding habit.
Updated: Jul. 15, 2022 at 8:30 AM CDT
|By Kevin Foster
A Louisiana State Police (LSP) spokesman says an employee remains on active duty, despite that employee’s involvement in an ongoing boating crash investigation.
Updated: Jul. 8, 2022 at 6:18 PM CDT
|By Scottie Hunter and Kevin Foster
Davis said Friday that he was “simply wrong in that situation.”
Updated: Jul. 7, 2022 at 11:13 AM CDT
|By Kevin Foster
The man convicted of shooting and killing LSU basketball player Wayde Sims in 2018 has been formally sentenced to life in prison, according to a report published in The Advocate.
Updated: Jun. 27, 2022 at 5:37 PM CDT
|By Kevin Foster
Three East Baton Rouge Parish deputies are being charged for participating in an alleged pay fraud scheme and making off with thousands of dollars.
Updated: Jun. 17, 2022 at 6:11 PM CDT
|By Kevin Foster and Scottie Hunter
Louisiana State Police’s second-in-command is officially done. Doug Cain retired abruptly as several investigations swirl.
Updated: Jun. 9, 2022 at 2:06 PM CDT
|By Kevin Foster
Federal investigators have set up an email address as they investigate policing practices by Louisiana State Police.
Updated: May. 27, 2022 at 7:49 PM CDT
|By Kevin Foster
After admitting detectives failed to pursue allegations of a sexual crime as “diligently” as they should have, questions remain on whether a sheriff will discipline any of the deputies involved.
Updated: May. 27, 2022 at 6:29 PM CDT
|By Kevin Foster
A Louisiana state lawmaker’s testimony about Gov. John Bel Edwards’ knowledge of the Ronald Greene death investigation is drawing a strong denial from the governor’s top staffers.
Updated: May. 27, 2022 at 4:02 PM CDT
|By Kevin Foster
A 19th Judicial District judge says her office is investigating an imposter Facebook account that she believes has sent personal messages to others while pretending to be her.
Updated: May. 27, 2022 at 11:05 AM CDT
|By Kevin Foster
Livingston Parish Sheriff Jason Ard said Friday, May 27, that his office has completed a reopened investigation into Tiki Tubing owner Patricia Fore.
Updated: May. 25, 2022 at 5:20 PM CDT
|By Kevin Foster
A former Baton Rouge police officer continues to raise misconduct allegations against the department’s disgraced narcotics division.
Updated: May. 25, 2022 at 10:53 AM CDT
|By Kevin Foster
A newly-released state audit of the LSU system can be summarized in a single line - the state’s flagship university did not properly monitor its spending.
Updated: May. 20, 2022 at 4:18 PM CDT
|By Elizabeth Vowell and Kevin Foster
Veteran police officer Brandon Taylor is on administrative leave, according to a spokesman with the Baton Rouge Police Department.
Updated: May. 20, 2022 at 12:20 PM CDT
|By Kevin Foster
Just days after Tiki Tubing owner John Fore was arrested for sexual battery, his partner, Patricia Fore, has been booked on the same charge.
Updated: May. 20, 2022 at 11:41 AM CDT
|By Kevin Foster
A Guatemalan national, who authorities say was in the United States illegally, has been arrested in Baton Rouge in connection to a child sex trafficking case.