DONALDSONVILLE — The Louisiana Supreme Court on Friday appointed a second temporary replacement for an Assumption Parish judge accused of having an intimate relationship with a top sheriff's official in that parish while also presiding over crimin…
An 18-year-old Baton Rouge man who said God told him to kill himself before he intentionally plowed his speeding truck into a woman's vehicle on Siegen Lane in July, killing her, was found mentally competent Friday to proceed with his second-degre…
State environmental regulators must require an oil refinery waste reclamation company in Port Allen to identify the pollutants it wants to dump into the Intracoastal Waterway in West Baton Rouge Parish, a state appeals court ruled.
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Perhaps the third time will be the charm for a Baton Rouge cocaine trafficker whose case has been sent back to a federal judge for resentencing -- again.
A Gonzales man was sentenced to life in prison Thursday in the 1995 abduction and rape of a Baton Rouge woman who was given a choice to either be raped "or die."
A Baton Rouge man accused of striking and killing another man during a 2017 police chase that reached speeds of nearly 120 mph was charged Thursday with the stiffer crime of manslaughter after he rejected an offer to plead guilty to vehicular homicide.
A retired Lafourche Parish judge will handle court Friday for embattled Assumption Parish Judge Jessie LeBlanc, three days after authorities conducting a welfare check for worried family members found her driving outside Pensacola, Florida.
A 56-year-old Baton Rouge man was indicted Wednesday in a nearly 4-decade-old abduction and rape case.
Two Baton Rouge men were indicted on murder counts Wednesday in a Tigerland double homicide that occurred in mid-October.
Florida deputies found Judge Jessie LeBlanc on Tuesday afternoon, driving outside Pensacola, after family members in Louisiana became concerned about her well-being and asked law enforcement officers to find her, authorities said Wednesday.
A 49-year-old Baton Rouge man has been sentenced to nearly 17 years in federal prison for illegal gun and drug possession, U.S. Attorney Brandon Fremin said Wednesday.
The attorney for alleged Baton Rouge serial killer Kenneth Gleason has been suspended from practicing law by the state Supreme Court, putting Gleason's scheduled April 27 trial date in serious jeopardy.
A Donaldsonville man fatally stabbed another man outside a Houmas Street home Tuesday night, Ascension sheriff's deputies said.
Bruce Prejean, the Assumption Parish sheriff's chief deputy, admitted to investigators that he had an intimate relationship with Judge Jessie LeBlanc, contradicting a claim he made last month that their long-standing friendship had always remained…
Fines for nonviolent offenses like traffic tickets start out small but can snowball into crippling debt, especially for people already struggling to make ends meet.
A Baton Rouge man is arguing his 75-year prison sentence for an armed robbery and attempted armed robbery is excessive, even as he awaits another trial on charges he killed two women in 2015.
A 16-year-old Baton Rouge boy pleaded not guilty Tuesday in the June shooting death of an 18-year-old whose body was dumped behind Olympia Stadium.
A Baton Rouge woman accused of fatally poisoning her live-in boyfriend for life insurance money in 2015 won't face the death penalty if she's convicted of first-degree murder, prosecutors have decided.
A grand jury will soon consider whether to bring charges against former Baton Rouge police officer Yuseff Hamadeh, who resigned from the department last year after he was accused of lying about an August 2018 traffic stop in which he shot at a fle…
A longtime Baton Rouge City Court judge, the daughter of a 19th Judicial District Court judge and two other local lawyers qualified this week to run for an open 19th JDC seat.
A 42-year-old Baton Rouge man accused in a fatal shooting over an alleged bicycle theft was indicted Thursday on a second-degree murder charge.
A Pineville man was indicted Thursday in the September shooting death of a 33-year-old woman in rural East Baton Rouge Parish.
A Port Allen man accused of fatally shooting an LSU post-graduate student working part-time as a gas station clerk was indicted Thursday on murder and other counts.
A former University of Alabama student accused of making a bomb threat to Tiger Stadium while it was jammed with 102,000 fans during the LSU-Florida game appeared in a Baton Rouge courtroom Wednesday and was told to return to court May 26.
CONVENT — Days from leaving office, departing St. James Parish President Timmy Roussel pleaded not guilty Tuesday to a new round of malfeasance-in-office charges dating from 2015, while his attorneys argued their client's case needs to have a new …
An appeals court has reinstated the firing of two Baton Rouge police officers who were accused, but acquitted, of acting as lookouts while another officer allegedly sexually assaulted a young woman at a BREC park in 2014.
Retired 1st Circuit Court of Appeal Chief Judge Melvin Shortess died Friday after a lengthy illness.
The man accused of a killing five people in Livingston and Ascension parishes last year is set to face a trial in August that could bring the death penalty. But that trial might be delayed until 2021 as defense attorneys deal with scheduling conflicts.
District Attorney Ricky Babin has told about 20 Assumption Parish criminal defendants that the judge overseeing their cases has disclosed a “personal relationship” with a top deputy in the parish Sheriff’s Office — and that disclosure could benefi…
CONVENT — Outgoing two-term St. James Parish President Timmy Roussel will again face charges of malfeasance in office.
The murder convictions of two Baton Rouge men and the life prison terms they received in separate 2012 shootings were affirmed Friday by a state appellate court.
Three days after jurors voted 11-1 in early October to convict a Baton Rouge woman of second-degree murder in her boyfriend's slaying, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in a New Orleans murder case over the legality of split jury verdicts in …
Attorneys for 900 people across 37 states, including Louisiana, who invested and lost their life savings to former Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford's massive Ponzi scheme are hoping an appellate court will revive their decade-old federal class-actio…
A civil rights group is urging the nation's highest court to overturn a lower-court ruling that said a Black Lives Matter organizer has no First Amendment defense to a lawsuit filed by a Baton Rouge officer who was injured while trying to arrest p…
A 70-year-old Gonzales man accused of raping a 5-year-old girl last year was indicted this week by an East Baton Rouge Parish grand jury.
A Baton Rouge man's request for bail in his triple-murder case won't be heard until March after he told a judge Friday that his family has hired a New Orleans lawyer to represent him.
GONZALES — The Ascension Parish Council is poised to consider a contested 30-year contract Friday night that would consolidate sewer service in the Dutchtown, Prairieville and Gonzales areas, after a state appellate panel threw out a lower court o…
Four Romanians, including a brother and sister, have admitted their roles in a scheme involving the use of fraudulent credit cards to withdraw cash from ATMs in Baton Rouge, U.S. Attorney Brandon Fremin reported Thursday.
Leslie Aguillard was in a Baton Rouge courtroom Thursday for a hearing on charges that she stole a truck last summer and abandoned it, leaving a 5-year-old dog to die of heat exhaustion; the dog’s owner was there too, holding up a photo of Roleaux.
A Louisiana judge reduced the bond and released a teenager accused of fatally shooting his father during an argument, ordering the defendant to undergo mental health evaluation upon his release.
A Baton Rouge teenager accused of fatally shooting his father during a June argument in their Shenandoah home had his $100,000 bond cut in half Wednesday by a state judge who said the young man is in need of supervision, evaluation and treatment.
Three months have passed since East Baton Rouge judges agreed to implement a new rule aimed at getting defendants through the local criminal justice system without inordinate delays. Now the judges are walking back the expedited arraignment proces…
The leader of a large Baton Rouge drug trafficking ring that distributed heroin, methamphetamine and crack cocaine has been sentenced to nearly 10½ years in federal prison, U.S. Attorney Brandon Fremin said Wednesday.
A Black Lives Matter organizer cannot be held liable for the conduct of an unidentified person who seriously injured a Baton Rouge officer during a protest after the 2016 killing of Alton Sterling, but the officer's negligence claim against the or…
Supporters of a new expedited arraignment process in Baton Rouge say it's already increasing fairness in the local criminal justice system while saving taxpayer dollars, but some 19th Judicial District judges aren't entirely happy with how it's wo…
Kaylene DeFranceschi stepped out of the court in Clinton overcome by emotion moments after the man accused of killing her husband and two other men was found guilty of murder and will likely be imprisoned for the rest of his life.
DONALDSONVILLE — The Ascension Parish Council is the only government body in the parish to televise its meetings, sending videos of them out over public access television and streaming them over the internet.
The fate of accused serial killer Ryan Sharpe is now in jurors’ hands.
The founder of the Baton Rouge-based United Cajun Navy agreed Thursday to resolve a cyberstalking lawsuit brought against eight defendants after both parties accepted a settlement barring contact between one another.
Psychiatrists who assessed the mental condition of alleged serial killer Ryan Sharpe testified Thursday they had serious doubts about his having a mental defect, telling jurors at his trial that he made little effort on tests and never repeated cl…
The East Baton Rouge Metro Council was unable to agree on a proposed settlement that resulted from mediation in the ongoing civil lawsuit against local leaders filed on behalf of Alton Sterling's five children, who lost their father in the 2016 po…