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Following a search of an off-campus frat house, two Tulane University students have reportedly been charged with a variety of drug offenses including possession with intent to distribute "Molly," a more pure form of the drug ecstasy. The frat house was reportedly...
According to the Baton Rouge Police Department, while violent crimes-murder, rape, robbery-increased in 2012, the overall number of "major crimes" actually reduced. Major crimes, according to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting program, include not only murder, rape and...
East Baton Rouge Parish prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty in a murder case involving Dominique Dantoni Smith, a man accused of taking the life of his former girlfriend and her 3-year-old son. In that incident, which reportedly took place at a park near...
A 59-year-old man was reportedly arrested on Monday and accused of driving under the influence, making for his third DUI arrest in less than a year-s time and his second in the last two weeks. In addition to the DUI charge, he was also charged with operating a vehicle...
According to a recent study conducted by the Institute for Public Health and Justice at the LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, Louisiana incarcerates a higher percentage of young inmates with mental health needs than most other states. As the director of the...
We all remember reading The Scarlet Letter in high school, how Hester Prynne was sentenced to wear a badge of shame for her crime. We usually think of this sort of thing as belonging to the puritan culture of that time, but things like this still happen today. In...
Over 80 people were arrested and charged with sex crimes by federal, state and local law enforcement officials during this year's Super Bowl as part of a national initiative to target sex trafficking. The initiative, Operation Innocence Lost, has the goal of...
With tax season just around the corner, the IRS is gearing up-has been for awhile now-for an influx of fresh cases of income tax fraud. With the advent of nearly total electronic filing, the crime has been sharply increased, putting the federal government to work. At...
On Thursday, country singing legend Randy Travis pleaded guilty to a driving while intoxicated charge connected to an incident last summer when Travis was found naked after crashing his car in Sherman. In exchange for his guilty plea, Travis received two years of...
Only weeks after East Baton Rouge Parish Mayor-President Kip Holden announced in his annual State of the City address that murders were down 60 percent in Baton-pointing to statistics showing a decline in violent killings in the last several months of 2012. In...
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