Liam Combs III

“Most of my life was taken away from me for something I didn’t do.”

Wilbert Jones spent more than 45 years at Louisiana State Penitentiary for a crime he did not commit. Now free, Jones has one wish as he faces losing his sight entirely: to travel and see the places he could only imagine from inside a prison cell.

Louisiana officials are working to position the state as a leader in nuclear energy, with a three-part plan before the federal government that includes uranium enrichment research, power deployment to data centers, and offshore nuclear waste storage in the Gulf of America.

The Secretary of State's office will choose a vendor for its new voting machines by the end of the year, hoping to get rolled out in certain parishes by spring 2027, with full implementation anticipated in the next two years🗳️

Voters also have the option to cast their vote on the machine itself which then prints out a copy of their vote with a QR code that the machine scans to record it.

As the search for the body of Ja'Derrius Minnieweather at the Baton Rouge Landfill enters week three, his family has been pushing to see a video that allegedly confirms where he might be.

East Baton Rouge Parish District Attorney Hillar Moore explains to WAFB why authorities are withholding that video until a future trial. 51 year-old Maurice Parms has been charged with first degree murder in connection to Minnieweather's disappearance.

After a grand jury indictment of Attorney General Liz Murrill was dismissed by a special prosecutor, Governor Landry has floated a possible special session over the New Orleans court system. Lawmakers told WAFB they haven’t heard anything yet.

The search for 15-year-old Ja'Derrius Minnieweather continues at the Baton Rouge landfill, where crews have searched through tens of thousands of pounds of material in hopes of bringing him home.

Baton Rouge Police say their top investigators are working alongside the FBI after determining the teen, a homicide victim, was unknowingly taken to the landfill in a waste truck. He had been missing since early June.

A new Louisiana law set to take effect Aug. 1 will allow stalking and cyberstalking victims to break their rental leases without penalty, closing a gap in the state’s existing domestic abuse protections.

The Associated Press has projected Julia Letlow as the winner of Louisiana’s U.S. Senate Republican runoff. WAFB’s Liam Combs is at Letlow’s campaign headquarters with the latest on what this means in the race. Stay with WAFB for continuing election coverage.