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Mayor Cantrell recall petition needs fewer signatures than originally thought.

Representative Edmond Jordan-- (D) Baton Rouge, is taking aim at high-speed police chases following two dangerous chases through the Baton Rouge area within the last month.

Twelve people were hurt and police are working to track down the gunman following a mass shooting at Dior Bar and Lounge in Baton Rouge.

New details of a divorce petition obtained by Fox 8 imply New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell was involved in an extramarital affair with Officer Jeffrey Vappie.

Hazing on college campuses claims lives and injures and humiliates countless others, yet government officials fail to enact strong laws to curb the persistent problem.

The lab processes around 15,000 pieces of evidence each year, helping police and prosecutors in 29 parishes convict criminals in drug, firearms, and murder cases.

These murders have few clues and different killers, but the victims all share something in common.

Mayor LaToya Cantrell claims her use of a city-owned apartment is in line with past mayors. But now former Mayor Marc Morial says he never used the apartment the way Cantrell is utilizing it.

On shooting scenes over the past two years, SPD says they’ve found evidence of the illegal weapon on a scale never seen before.

After a Fox 8 attorney got involved, the City of New Orleans released public documents Wednesday (Nov. 23) it initially refused to hand over.

Two women, victimized two years apart by the same teen, say the justice system failed to hold him responsible.

Almost four years ago at the Ware Youth Center in Red River Parish, two teenage boys died by suicide just 72 hours apart.

Clothing purchases on the mayor's behalf dating to 2017 are being scrutinized by the FBI, according to Fox 8 sources.

FOX 8 reviewed Mayor Cantrell’s calendar for the past three years. Our findings lead two political analysts to conclude the mayor might not be working as much as taxpayers may expect.

Now that Secretary Marketa Walters is out at the Department of Children and Family Services, Senator Regina Barrow, (D) Baton Rouge, says the agency can finally move forward.

Surveillance video raises questions about how Mayor Cantrell is spending her time and taxpayer money outside the office.

Louisiana’s governor is calling the Department of Children and Family Services’ (DCFS) handling of one its cases an “absolute failure” after a one-year-old boy died of a fentanyl overdose earlier in November.

The agency tasked with keeping kids safe across the state, the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS), is now telling the public exactly how they failed another child, only after the WAFB I-TEAM exposed the botched handling of a case that left 1-year-old Jahrei Paul dead.

A 1-year-old boy’s death has been ruled a homicide according to the East Baton Rouge Coroner’s Office.

Whether it’s the office of the mayor, senator, city council, or school board, drive almost anywhere in Shreveport right now, and you’re certain to catch sight of political signs promoting a host of political candidates, pleading for your vote.

First Emanuel’s pastor, the Rev. Charles Southall, recently pleaded guilty to a federal money laundering charge and admitted stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the church.

Sabrina Richardson was demoted from captain to lieutenant earlier this month following a series of Fox 8 reports into apparent double-dipping on timesheets

“The majority don’t want to talk about it publicly; they just want it to go away, and it’s not going to go away”

Six days after an Orleans Parish deputy was reassigned over an allegation that he stalked Mayor LaToya Cantrell, the Mayor has been unwilling to back up the allegations.

A Louisiana state trooper’s admission that he paid a hotel front desk clerk $200 dollars for sex may have helped him dodge a rape charge while at an out-of-state conference, investigative records obtained by WAFB show.

Gail Roberts is pushing for justice after her son, James Roberts, was killed in a crash on Nicholson Drive last month.

Advances in pediatric medicine are raising questions about "Shaken Baby Syndrome" diagnoses, and suggesting thousands of children may have died because of medical conditions, rather than foul play.

A two-month-long FOX 8 investigation finds New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell is possibly breaking city policy and maybe even state law, spending much of her time at a city-owned apartment, possibly without paying rent.

For many college coaches, it pays to get fired. Over a 17-year period beginning in 2005, public universities have shelled out more than $1.1 billion in buying out the contracts of college coaches, according to an InvestigateTV analysis of NCAA financial data collected by Syracuse University. Most of that money was spent on football coaches who play at the highest level of Division I athletics. As football coaches' annual compensation now stretches into seven digits, massive severance payments also grow bigger and bigger.

A former Louisiana State Police trooper has taken a plea deal more than four years after she was accused of shooting a teenager.