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4/23/2025

Former DCFS employee indicted in 2022 malfeasance in office case

Former DCFS employee indicted in 2022 malfeasance in office case

Posted 1:55 PM 4/23/2025 by Logan Cullop

BATON ROUGE - A former Department of Children and Family Services employee was indicted Wednesday for malfeasance in office dating back to a 2022 complaint that she deleted important files.

The indictment says that Eddriene Sylvester committed computer tampering and malfeasance in office (More)

4/21/2025

Couple who built on wrong property profited off abandoned oil well located there

Posted 6:11 PM 4/21/2025 by Bess Casserleigh

ZACHARY - Documents show a family who built their home on the wrong lot received hundreds of thousands of dollars in a settlement for an abandoned oil well on that property.

The WBRZ Investigative Unit brought you the story last week about Thomas Robertson and his brother's quest to right (More)

4/18/2025

Lawyer representing property owner wants family who built home on wrong plot evicted

Posted 8:11 PM 4/18/2025 by Bess Casserleigh

ZACHARY — Thomas Robertson says a house was built without his permission on property he bought in 2011. 

What essentially boils down to human error led to the Mulder (More)

4/16/2025

INVESTIGATIVE UNIT: Family claims strangers built house on their land

Posted 4:18 PM 4/17/2025 by Bess Casserleigh

ZACHARY - A family in Zachary says someone else built a home on their land. 

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The home owned by Steve and Alicia Mulder was built in 2012 on Heck Young Road on a tract of (More)

4/15/2025

'Simply not true:' Parish Pres. Kenny Havard addresses allegations stemming from controversial land deal

Posted 5:39 PM 4/15/2025 by Bess Casserleigh & Logan Cullop

ST. FRANCISVILLE - Parish President Kenny Havard used his time during the West Feliciana Parish Council meeting to address allegations surrounding a land deal at the center of a (More)

4/14/2025

West Feliciana Parish Council supports bill to dissolve parish port commission

Posted 9:45 PM 4/14/2025 by Logan Cullop & Bess Casserleigh

ST. FRANCISVILLE - The West Feliciana Parish Council threw its support behind a bill to abolish the West Feliciana Parish Port Commission after a handful of commissioners hurled allegations of wrongdoing at Parish President Kenny Havard. 

A resolution in support of State Rep. Jeremy (More)

4/11/2025

Impact students to finish year at different location; former leaders say move orchestrated in backroom deal

Posted 7:42 PM 4/11/2025 by Bess Casserleigh

BAKER - Impact Charter School students will report to a new location to finish out their school year starting next week after the charter faced an eviction. 

In a statement sent to parents Friday morning, school officials said that due to the eviction notice, "remaining in the current (More)

4/10/2025

Impact Charter's former leader says she won't evict students from premises

Posted 7:29 PM 4/10/2025 by WBRZ Staff

BAKER — The former head of the Impact Charter School, who is also the registered agent for the group that serves as the landlord for the school's (More)

4/8/2025

Judge orders third sanity hearing ahead of trial for convicted killer Ryan Sharpe

Posted 11:33 AM 4/9/2025 by Bess Casserleigh

BATON ROUGE - Despite already being sentenced to life in prison in an East Feliciana courtroom last year, Ryan Sharpe still has to face a jury for the murder he's accused of in East Baton Rouge.

Sharpe was convicted of the murder of Brad Defranchesi and is also accused of killing Tommy (More)

4/7/2025

Attorney explains why BRPD officer who blew over the limit after wreck likely won't get charged

Posted 6:09 PM 4/7/2025 by Bess Casserleigh

BATON ROUGE - A Baton Rouge Police officer and another driver may not face charges after a fiery crash in Zachary, despite both drivers being suspected of (More)

4/2/2025

INVESTIGATIVE UNIT: BRPD officer above legal limit when fiery crash happened, leaked document says

Posted 5:38 PM 4/2/2025 by Bess Casserleigh & Logan Cullop

ZACHARY - A document leaked to the WBRZ Investigative Unit shows what several sources had been telling us all along: Baton Rouge Police Officer Loren Gaskin was under the influence when he totaled an unmarked police unit in Zachary on March 16.

On Wednesday, we received the document and (More)

4/1/2025

Man who killed pregnant girlfriend and threw toddler off bridge avoids trial, pleads guilty to manslaughter and feticide

Posted 12:24 PM 4/1/2025 by The Investigative Unit

BATON ROUGE - A man accused of killing his girlfriend, who was pregnant with his child at the time, and the woman's 2-year-old son pleaded guilty (More)

3/31/2025

Trial of man accused of sexually abusing foster kids to begin Tuesday

Posted 10:20 PM 3/31/2025 by Bess Casserleigh

BATON ROUGE - The trial of a man accused of sexually abusing three of his foster children will begin Tuesday. Michael Hadden, now 54, has been sitting in jail for (More)

3/27/2025

INVESTIGATIVE UNIT: West Feliciana Port Commission members allege wrongdoing in data center land deal

Posted 6:50 PM 3/31/2025 by Logan Cullop & Bess Casserleigh

Update: The day after WBRZ Investigative Unit's report aired, we learned a complaint will be filed with the State Ethics Board concerning whether parish officials profited from the land deal.

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