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  • Jul 22, 2024 | fox8live.com | Lee Zurik |Dannah Kirby

    NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Following a scathing 17-page federal indictment against a former member of her executive protection team, the head of the Metropolitan Crime Commission says an indictment against Mayor Latoya Cantrell is imminent. In former New Orleans Police officer Jeffrey Vappie’s indictment, which was handed down Friday (July 19) the word “mayor” appears 28 times and refers to Cantrell as “Public Official 1″ an additional 40 times.

  • Jun 27, 2024 | kalb.com | Rob Masson |Lee Zurik

    NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Jeffrey Vappie, the New Orleans police officer and former member Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s executive protection team at the center of a federal investigation, will retire from the department on June 29, a source confirms to Fox 8. According to his online profile, Vappie is a graduate of Warren Easton High School, Upper Iowa University, and was hired by the NOPD in 1997.

  • Jun 10, 2024 | wdbj7.com | Jill Riepenhoff |Jamie Grey |Lee Zurik

    (InvestigateTV) — With the sting of the now-banned Fisher-Price Rock ‘N Play still fresh, parents, consumer advocates, pediatricians and others are sounding alarms about another baby product named in death reports: weighted infant sleepwear. At least eight babies have died while wearing these weighted sleepers, swaddles and sleep sacks, according to an InvestigateTV analysis of U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission data and documents.

  • Jun 10, 2024 | ky3.com | Jill Riepenhoff |Jamie Grey |Lee Zurik

    (InvestigateTV) — With the sting of the now-banned Fisher-Price Rock ‘N Play still fresh, parents, consumer advocates, pediatricians and others are sounding alarms about another baby product named in death reports: weighted infant sleepwear. At least eight babies have died while wearing these weighted sleepers, swaddles and sleep sacks, according to an InvestigateTV analysis of U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission data and documents.

  • Jun 10, 2024 | wkyt.com | Jill Riepenhoff |Jamie Grey |Lee Zurik

    (InvestigateTV) — With the sting of the now-banned Fisher-Price Rock ‘N Play still fresh, parents, consumer advocates, pediatricians and others are sounding alarms about another baby product named in death reports: weighted infant sleepwear. At least eight babies have died while wearing these weighted sleepers, swaddles and sleep sacks, according to an InvestigateTV analysis of U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission data and documents.

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