Robb Hays
WAFB News Director
Baton Rouge, La.
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Robb Hays is the News Director for WAFB 9News.
Contact Robb via email at robb.hays@wafb.com.
Updated: Jan. 23, 2023 at 9:28 AM CST
|By Robb Hays
First Solicitor General Liz Baker Murrill has officially announced her candidacy for Louisiana Attorney General.
Updated: Dec. 16, 2022 at 12:57 PM CST
|By Robb Hays
Five Louisiana law enforcement officers were charged with state crimes Thursday in the deadly 2019 arrest of motorist Ronald Greene.
Updated: Sep. 25, 2022 at 11:01 PM CDT
|By Robb Hays
An aspiring model from Baton Rouge is back in Louisiana after being hospitalized in Virginia following a crash that killed two of her friends on her 23rd birthday.
Updated: Sep. 23, 2022 at 5:15 PM CDT
|By Robb Hays
A large cross was erected Friday near the spot where LSU student Allie Rice died one week ago.
Updated: May. 3, 2022 at 8:43 PM CDT
|By Robb Hays
A Livingston Parish judge Tuesday granted a motion to delay the upcoming trial for Dennis Perkins.
Updated: Mar. 4, 2022 at 4:48 PM CST
|By Breanne Bizette and Robb Hays
A fisherman rescued the man who fell off I-10 East and into Whiskey Bay following a crash on Friday, March 4.
Updated: Jan. 11, 2022 at 2:39 PM CST
|By Robb Hays
The boy’s father, Kyle Robichaux, says he withdrew both of his sons from the school because of the mask policy.
Updated: Jan. 5, 2022 at 6:27 PM CST
|By Robb Hays and Chris Rosato
A nine-year-old has been suspended from a school located on the LSU campus in Baton Rouge after refusing to wear a mask inside his fourth-grade classroom.
Updated: Nov. 12, 2021 at 3:36 PM CST
|By Robb Hays
Jason Allen Miller, 53, of Covington, is charged with first-degree rape, false imprisonment, and false impersonation of a police officer. Deputies say Miller confessed to the crimes when he was arrested.
Updated: Oct. 1, 2021 at 3:07 PM CDT
|By Robb Hays
Both suspects in the death of Nevaeh Allen will remain in jail for now, after a judge Friday afternoon ordered both must stay locked up until new bond hearings can be held on Monday, Oct. 4.
Updated: Sep. 10, 2021 at 5:26 PM CDT
|By Robb Hays
Students who fail to comply with LSU's COVID entry rules face being kicked off campus by the end of the day on Sept. 10, university spokesman Ernie Ballard said.
Updated: Aug. 30, 2021 at 11:25 AM CDT
|By Robb Hays
AT&T cellular customers are starting to be able to use their wireless devices after Hurricane Ida caused some problems for the company.
Updated: Jul. 7, 2021 at 5:35 PM CDT
|By Robb Hays
The Louisiana First Circuit Court of Appeal has agreed to allow the upcoming trial for Dennis Perkins to be postponed, allowing his attorney to attend another trial scheduled to start the same day.
Updated: Jul. 6, 2021 at 2:36 PM CDT
|By Robb Hays
The lawyer for Dennis Perkins filed documents Tuesday, asking a higher court to postpone next week’s scheduled start of his client’s high-profile trial in Livingston parish.
Updated: Jun. 25, 2021 at 1:31 PM CDT
|By Robb Hays
The trials of Dennis and Cynthia Perkins will be held separately, a judge ruled Friday.
Updated: Jun. 22, 2021 at 4:28 PM CDT
|By Robb Hays
Prosecutors have said no to a plea offer that would have avoided a trial for former Livingston Parish sheriff’s deputy Dennis Perkins.
Updated: Jun. 9, 2021 at 9:51 AM CDT
|By Robb Hays
A judge in Livingston Parish has ruled that former sheriff’s deputy Dennis Perkins and his wife will not have separate trials.
Updated: Jun. 4, 2021 at 9:58 AM CDT
|By Robb Hays
Former Livingston Parish sheriff’s deputy Dennis Perkins will ask prosecutors for a plea deal to avoid trial, his attorney said in court Friday.