A Convent man has been sentenced to 15 years in state prison in a plea deal with prosecutors, bringing an end to a nearly 6-year-old case involving a drive-by shooting outside a high school gym in St. James Parish.
A Baton Rouge man accused of killing and dismembering his wife, Brusly High School teacher Sylviane Finck Lozada, and fleeing to Venezuela with the couple's young daughter in 2011 is in plea discussions, a prosecutor told a judge Tuesday.
A former LSU student and ex-Phi Delta Theta member who gave prosecutors their “first real glimpse” into what happened the night pledge Max Gruver died in an alcohol-related hazing ritual no longer faces a misdemeanor charge in the case, East Baton…
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The Louisiana Supreme Court has agreed to review a Baton Rouge teen's sentence of life without parole, a punishment he and his attorney claim is unconstitutionally excessive.
The former head of the Our Lady of the Lake Foundation is scheduled to report Monday to a federal prison in Indiana after being sentenced to almost three years behind bars for embezzling nearly $800,000 from the nonprofit fundraising arm for the B…
Three months after several former Chimes employees alleged they were pressured to work off the clock for no pay at the popular restaurant, their claims are heading to arbitration.
A lawsuit that Max Gruver's parents filed last year against the LSU Board of Supervisors, Phi Delta Theta and current and former members of the fraternity has detoured into a fight over whether the university can be sued as a result of his 2017 al…
A Vacherie man convicted of killing his stepfather as he left a St. James Parish convenience store nearly two years ago was sentenced to 25 years in state prison, prosecutors said.
A 60-year-old Zachary man accused of killing a fleeing 15-year-old burglar and dragging the teen's body into a nearby yard is scheduled to make his first court appearance since being indicted on a second-degree murder charge.
An 18-year-old Baton Rouge man who told police God instructed him to kill himself before he rammed his speeding pickup into a woman's car on Siegen Lane in July, killing her, will remain at a mental facility until at least mid-January, a judge dec…
The man accused of killing civil rights icon Sadie Roberts-Joseph pleaded not guilty Thursday in the July slaying of the woman who had founded Baton Rouge's African-American history museum.
District Attorney Hillar Moore III, Stephen Gruver and Rae Ann Gruver, the parents of Max Gruver, spoke to reporters Wednesday morning outside a Baton Rouge courthouse and reacted to former LSU student and ex-Phi Delta Theta member Matthew Naquin'…
Former LSU student Matthew Naquin likely will serve only a few months behind bars after a judge sentenced him Wednesday to 5 years in prison, but suspended all but 2 ½ years of the term, in the 2017 alcohol-related hazing death of 18-year-old frat…
A drunken driver who plowed into a Baton Rouge bus stop last year, killing a 29-year-old man sitting there, was sentenced Tuesday to 25 years in prison.
A pregnant Brookstown Middle Magnet School educator whose body was found in an Iberville Parish ditch in 2016 was likely killed at an East Baton Rouge Parish landfill, a detective testified Tuesday in the case of a former assistant principal charg…
An East Feliciana Parish judge on Tuesday dismissed the case against a black defendant who had unsuccessfully challenged the location of his trial — arguing all the way to the state Supreme Court — because a Confederate statue stands outside the r…
GONZALES — The editor of a local website agreed Monday to permanently take down a story about Murphy Painter that the onetime candidate for Ascension Parish president said used a misleadingly edited recording to make it sound as if Painter was inv…
A Livingston Parish man was sentenced Monday to life in prison for the 2018 drug-fueled murder of Maurepas teenager Emily Rodgers.
Former Southern University Board of Supervisors member Walter Dumas and his now-defunct law firm must pay the state ethics board $138,000 for using an A.W. Mumford Stadium suite for three years without paying the rental fee, an appeals court has r…
Veteran defense lawyer Ron Johnson, the twin brother of 19th Judicial District Court Judge Don Johnson, defeated East Baton Rouge Metro Councilman and Zachary City Prosecutor Trae Welch in Saturday's runoff to earn a seat on the 19th Judicial Dist…
A Zachary homeowner accused of fatally shooting a fleeing 15-year-old burglar two years ago and dragging his body into another yard is now under indictment for second-degree murder.
A Donaldsonville man accused of a role in a jailhouse rape inside an Ascension Parish juvenile dorm more than two years ago was acquitted Thursday after a one-day trial.
A retired judge who raised eyebrows last week when he told a convicted Baton Rouge rapist he would consider reducing a 12-year prison term if he paid $150,000 to his victim — and if she accepted — filed a document with the court this week to expla…
Attorney Richard Ducote opened a new front in his war against the secrecy surrounding Louisiana judicial misconduct investigations by filing a federal lawsuit against the state’s Judiciary Commission.
The man accused of killing 75-year-old civil rights activist Sadie Roberts-Joseph, the founder of Baton Rouge’s African-American history museum, faces the possibility of life in prison following his indictment Wednesday on second degree murder.
A Baton Rouge man's confession to authorities that he killed and dismembered his wife, Brusly High School teacher Sylviane Finck Lozada, in 2011 can be used at his trial, the state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.
GONZALES — Murphy Painter, a onetime chief sheriff's deputy in Ascension Parish and a recent candidate for parish president, accused the owner of a Gonzales news website of knowingly publishing misleadingly edited recorded comments so they sounded…
An Amite man who killed a Baton Rouge couple in an alcohol- and speed-related crash at the intersection of Florida and Sherwood Forest boulevards received an 18-year prison term Friday. He also received forgiveness.
A judge in Baton Rouge told a convicted rapist he would consider reducing the man's 12-year sentence if he were to pay his female victim $150,000 and if the woman were in favor of such action.
Alleged serial killer Ryan Sharpe, who is set to stand trial in December in East Feliciana Parish on two murder counts and an attempted murder charge, will now go on trial in June in East Baton Rouge Parish in a third killing.
An 18-year-old Baton Rouge man who said he intentionally crashed his speeding car into a woman's stopped vehicle on Siegen Lane because God had told him to kill himself was indicted Wednesday on a second-degree murder count.
Ex-'Sons of Guns' TV star Will Hayden's rape convictions, life term affirmed by Louisiana high court
Ex-"Sons of Guns" reality TV personality Will Hayden's convictions and life prison term for raping two preteen girls in East Baton Rouge Parish have been upheld by the state's highest court.
A grand jury has indicted Errol Hicks, the man accused of shooting much-loved day care owner Carol Hutchinson in a domestic violence slaying in September.
Home health firms in Lafayette and Houston have agreed to pay $2.5 million to resolve allegations that they defrauded the federal Medicare and Louisiana Medicaid programs, U.S. Attorney Brandon Fremin reported Tuesday.
A Plaquemine man who collected more than $450,000 in disability payments while working multiple jobs and even running a local business pleaded guilty this week to Social Security fraud, authorities said Tuesday.
Sentencing delayed for Raymond Reggie, politically tied Mandeville businessman, to Dec. 17 for fraud
The sentencing of politically connected Mandeville businessman Raymond Reggie, who pleaded guilty earlier this year to wire fraud, has been pushed back to Dec. 17 in Baton Rouge federal court.
GONZALES — After a grand jury investigation, Ascension Parish District Attorney Ricky Babin said his office has found no evidence of any unreported rapes or any rape cases that were covered up as suggested by explosive, recorded allegations attrib…
Two former contract workers severely burned in a November 2016 explosion at ExxonMobil's Baton Rouge refinery reached a financial settlement Monday with the company and others.
A Zachary businessman pleaded guilty Monday to fraud charges, admitting in federal court that he obtained more than $29 million from banks and private equity firms by making false statements.
A Zachary businessman pleaded guilty Monday to fraud charges, admitting in federal court that he obtained more than $29 million from banks and private equity firms by making false statements.
CONVENT — A St. James Parish man who was hit in the leg during a shootout outside a Vacherie bar room has been to sentenced to seven years in state prison because he was legally barred from possessing a gun during the incident, prosecutors said.
A Zachary man was convicted Thursday of abducting a Baton Rouge firefighter at gunpoint last year and forcing him to withdraw money from several ATMs.
A Baton Rouge judge was removed Thursday from the case of a convicted felon charged in the 2018 hit-and-run death of Zachary firefighter and reserve police officer Christopher Lawton.
GONZALES — A Prairieville woman who admitted to having a few drinks, smoking marijuana and taking an anti-anxiety drug before a 2018 fatal crash that killed a Kenner man has been sentenced to 15 years in state prison and ordered to pay restitution…
A national civil rights attorney representing the family of a man killed by an East Feliciana Parish sheriff's deputy said Thursday it was "unconscionable" for the 31-year-old to have been chased for stealing raw chicken and shot dead behind a con…
Calling a Port Allen industrial recycling plant's modified air permit a "colossal bait-and-switch," a lawyer for environmentalists asked a Baton Rouge judge Wednesday to vacate the permit and send it back to a state regulatory agency for more study.
A federal judge has thrown out a year-old wrongful death lawsuit accusing Assumption Parish correctional officers of failing to supply medication to a man with a heart condition who died from cardiac arrest fewer than 12 hours after being booked …
A contractor who formerly worked with the city-parish's mosquito abatement agency is suing the Baton Rouge Business Report and two East Baton Rouge Parish Metro Council members for a series of articles he claims contained false and defamatory stat…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — An organization challenging Louisiana's permit requirements for hair braiders has won a round in state court.
Bail records are still being faxed from the 19th Judicial District courthouse to East Baton Rouge Parish Prison, a sometimes slow and unreliable practice that advocates argue leaves people stuck in jail because of paperwork delays.
GONZALES — City police officers say they are seeking the public's help to find a 36-year-old Gonzales woman who has been missing since she reportedly left home five months ago to visit a boyfriend in Mississippi.