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In a video that has gone viral on the Internet, folks in Louisiana and around the country are getting a fresh new look at a special and particularly aggravated brand of murder. It's murder for hire, and the FBI says it's a growing phenomenon in the U.S. and not just...
It was supposed to be a plot to fraudulently collect insurance money but murder reared its ugly head as the scheme went haywire. A woman accused of torching her own bakery in Gretna, Louisiana, probably had no knowledge of the felony-murder rule when she and perhaps...
Even those who figure after a period of time that they have gotten away with murder can get a big, unwelcome surprise in the end. Case-in-point: Recently investigators have arrested a Baton Rouge woman in the 2000 stabbing death of her business partner at that woman's...
After authorities concluded that there were 30 active street gangs in the Baron Rouge parish with more than 500 members, they looked deeper and found that known gang members or gang-related violence was helping to propel the high homicide rate. Thus was born the Baton...
It took years of stake-outs, stings and authorized phone-tapping to discover just who was behind distributing heroin and the prescription pain drug Roxicodone, serious drug trafficking offenses in Baton Rouge. Undercover cops in unmarked cars watched as members of the...
The story is almost too tragic to comprehend -- the father of an 11-month-old little girl was arrested and charged with first degree murder of the toddler. The dramatic arrest and charging of the father was preceded by the charging of a Baton Rouge woman for failing...
According to the Louisiana attorney general's office, an account administrator for the Department of Health and Hospitals used a clever scheme to commit white collar crime. Authorities say she schemed to keep open a bank account intended for a past and paid for 2009...
The area of North Sherwood Forest Boulevard has proved fatal ground for two Baton Rouge men recently. The old saying, "lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place," was certainly proven wrong in two recent Baton Rouge tragedies where the specter of murder visited...
Sometimes all it takes to invoke irreversible tragedy is a simple game of chance -- where one of the players has a violent background and a penchant for harming another human being. Such was the case when Baton Rouge police responded to the scene of a dice game where...
Two businessmen from Baton Rouge have become the subject of scrutiny from federal investigators. Law enforcement officials say that the two business partners obtained multiple loans through fraudulent means. As a result of the investigation, the two men have been...
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