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Michael Louding, a young man accused of slaying Terry Boyd in October 2009 for pay, received bad news on Monday after a judge refused to throw out one of his first-degree murder indictment and declined to suppress incriminating statements he reportedly gave to Baton...
Last Wednesday, Five residents of Livingston Parish were sentenced to probation in federal court in Baton Rouge after admitting to involvement in insurance fraud. According to the criminal allegations, the five had conspired to commit mail fraud and defrauded two...
Bud Selig, Commission for Major League Baseball, recently held a news conference at the Arizona Diamondbacks' spring training ballpark calling for tougher penalties for players who violate the league's drug agreement. Selig's concern over the issue stems largely from...
Blaine Keel of Baton Rouge was recently arrested and charged with several drug offenses after officers from the East Baton Rouge Sheriff's office received an anonymous tip that Keel was at in his apartment smoking methamphetamine. Upon searching the apartment,...
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...
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