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On Thursday, a Baton Rouge grand jury issued an indictment against three individuals and a personal care company based in Baton Rouge of forgery charges. A 43-year-old Prairieville man and his company, Millennium Health Care Services LLC, have been charged with...
On Wednesday, Baton Rouge Police arrested a teenager accused of being involved in a shooting which resulted in the severe injury of the 15-year-old son a Metro Councilman. The boy was reportedly injured last Friday, when according to court documents, two teens robbed...
A top aide to Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal will soon begin a pre-trial program for drunk-driving offenders in lieu of going to trial on charges of DWI. As our Baton Rouge readers know, the official-Paul Rainwater-was arrested last December. The yearlong pre-trial...
A 41-year-old Baton Rouge was recently sentenced to 30 years in prison, to be followed by eight years of supervised release, for drug-related offenses. His story shows that authorities in Louisiana and elsewhere take drug violations very seriously, but it also shows...
On New Year's Day in 2003, a now 41-year-old Louisiana man broke into the home of a 70-year-old retired minister, killed him and seriously injured the minister's 68-year-old wife so that he and his girlfriend could rob their home. Or did he? That is what we are about...
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the U.S. sent in the National Guard to help local residents' safety in the face of disaster. Now, with the murder rate in some areas of Louisiana 10 times the national average, some residents (and one state lawmaker) consider the...
Louisiana was one of 37 states affected by a 2010 U.S. Supreme Court decision which said that juveniles convicted of crimes not involving murder cannot be imprisoned for life. According to that decision, such inmates are not guaranteed release, but must be offered a...
The United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Monday that police officers must obtain a search warrant before attaching a GPS tracker device to the vehicle of a suspect. The decision, which is celebrated by advocates of privacy rights, is said to be one of the...
Our readers may or may not be aware of the music of 26-year-old Bruno Mars, whose real name is Peter Hernandez. The pop singer and Grammy award winner was cleared of a felony drug charge on Wednesday in Law Vegas after his successful completion of court-ordered drug...
Sexual assault is not only a problem in society at large, but also in the military. That should not come as too much of a surprise, since those in the armed services are made of flesh and blood like the rest of us. What may come as a surprise is the extent of the...
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