Rogers Johnson Jr. spent six days behind bars for misdemeanor public intoxication because he couldn't afford to post bail.
Traffic warrant issues need addressed after fatal crash by deputy with suspended license, judge says
While a state judge determined the West Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office and the Louisiana State Police acted appropriately in their investigation of an April fatal crash involving a deputy with a suspended license, the incident left the judge concern…
Citing chronic underfunding and excessive workloads, East Baton Rouge Parish's chief public defender sought permission Thursday to withdraw from some cases and decline future appointments, even if it results in charges being dismissed against indi…
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A 23-year-old Baton Rouge man accused of fatally shooting another man on Iroquois Street after a dice game in 2013 pleaded guilty Thursday and was sentenced to 37 years in prison.
An attorney for the Louisiana Physical Therapy Board fired last month after state lawmakers blasted his handling of sexual assault complaints against state-licensed physical therapists has fired back in a lengthy letter.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana man was sentenced to 10 years in prison for his role in the physical and psychological abuse of a young autistic woman who told him in federal court Thursday, "You made my life a living hell."
The former head of the Our Lady of the Lake Foundation made his first federal court appearance Wednesday since being charged last week by federal prosecutors and said he understood that he's facing charges of wire fraud and money laundering.
The disgraced former head of the Our Lady of the Lake Foundation made his first federal court appearance Wednesday since being charged by federal prosecutors and told a U.S. magistrate he understood that he is facing charges of wire fraud and mone…
A federal district court judge has sided with the city-parish, dismissing claims made in lawsuit by the nonprofit AIDS Healthcare Foundation that Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome's administration illegally dropped the organization's contract f…
A state appeals court refused Tuesday to move a black man's criminal case from East Feliciana Parish because a Confederate statue stands in front of the Clinton courthouse where his case is pending.
A 20-year-old Baker man accused in the fatal September shooting of LSU basketball player Wayde Sims had his bail reduced significantly Monday, but he’ll remain behind bars.
Trying to emulate rappers in a music video, a charade quickly turned tragic when a gun in a 13-year-old's hand went off, fatally striking his first-grade neighbor.
Louisiana has joined the vast majority of other states in allowing testimony during criminal trials from experts on eyewitness identification, including its sometimes unreliable nature — a move advocates hope will reduce wrongful convictions.
The former head of the Our Lady of the Lake Foundation, accused by federal prosecutors of taking more than a half-million dollars from the nonprofit fundraising arm for his personal use, is expected to plead guilty when he appears in court in two …
Two former Water Institute of the Gulf scientists now on the faculty at Tulane University have been accused by a federal grand jury of conspiring to steal heavily protected simulation technology from the Baton Rouge-based research organization and…
The former chief fundraiser for Our Lady of the Lake hospitals nearly doubled their foundation's worth during more than a decade as its leader, but federal prosecutors said Tuesday that while doing so he also siphoned donations, flew family and fr…
A federal judge in Baton Rouge refused Monday to throw out a malicious prosecution lawsuit against the Livingston Parish district attorney and a former top sheriff's detective, accusing them of coercing false testimony against the lead suspect in …
A Baton Rouge man was sentenced to 18 years in prison after pleading guilty Monday in the 2015 shooting death of a 14-year-old boy on North 17th Street.
A Convent man who stabbed another man during a fight at a club has been sentenced to 40 years in prison.
Motorists using the Sunshine Bridge in Donaldsonville and the Interstate 10 Mississippi River bridge in Baton Rouge this weekend won’t have to share those spans with environmental protesters.
A 30-year-old Baton Rouge man and his girlfriend have been sentenced to prison in a fatal 2017 shooting in Baker involving another couple.
A Baton Rouge judge ruled Thursday — in likely a precedent-setting decision — to send a teen facing murder charges back to an adult jail instead of the local juvenile detention center, a move his attorneys called a step backward for Louisiana juve…
As Tamiara Wade walks through the East Baton Rouge Juvenile Detention Center, some teens catch her attention from their classrooms, waving her in to speak with them. She pops in, joining in on a word guessing game.
For the last three months, while awaiting trial on second-degree murder and other charges, 17-year-old Malik Gray has sat in high school classes for at least five hours each weekday. He's slept in his own room — one with cold, cinder block walls —…
A 21-year-old Honduran man maintained his innocence in two languages Friday as a state judge sentenced him to life in prison in the 2017 bludgeoning death of his former roommate in the Gardere area of Baton Rouge.
A 61-year-old Baton Rouge woman who stole from the business where she worked has been sentenced to 10 years in prison and ordered to pay $98,000 in restitution.
An accused Baton Rouge cop shooter will be examined by two doctors to determine whether he was sane when he allegedly fired on relatives, a family friend and the officer last year, a state judge decided Thursday.
A 22-year-old Baton Rouge man was indicted Wednesday in the Jan. 2 shooting death of another man on S. 16th Street.
The former billing supervisor at a Baton Rouge pain management clinic was put on federal probation Wednesday and ordered to pay $254,000-plus in restitution for her role in a fraudulent billing scheme.
Six months after he was expelled from Lee High, Charlie Stephens got kicked out of school one last time, so to speak.
LIVINGSTON — The disgraced former tax commission administrator and Livingston Parish assessor pleaded no contest Tuesday to a count of first-offense domestic abuse battery.
A Ponchatoula Junior High student forcibly restrained by two teachers during a March 28 fight in the school's courtyard sued the educators and the Tangipahoa Parish school system Tuesday, claiming the teachers used excessive force and gave her a c…
AMITE — The autistic woman who was held captive and forced to live in an outdoor cage in Amite told one of her relatives Tuesday that she made her "life a living hell."
Doctors evaluating accused serial killer Ryan Sharpe have until July 23 to determine whether he was sane when he allegedly killed three men and wounded another in four separate shootings in East Baton Rouge and East Feliciana parishes in 2017, a j…
LIVINGSTON — The U.S. Supreme Court decided in 2016 that prosecutors withheld evidence so important that death row inmate Michael Wearry deserved a new trial for the murder of Eric Walber in Albany two decades ago.
Two adults authorities have described as ringleaders in the abuse of an autistic woman by her relatives in Amite pleaded guilty to federal charges Monday.
The husband of slain Brusly High School teacher Sylviane Finck Lozada is asking a state appeals court to declare that prosecutors cannot use his October confession against him because a detective failed to honor his request for a lawyer.
A former owner and medical director of a Baton Rouge pain management clinic was sentenced to more than three years in federal prison Friday in a health care fraud scheme, federal authorities said.
Lawyers with at least five years of experience who are looking for a "demanding and wide-ranging" job for the next eight years that currently pays $191,000-plus should look no further than U.S. District Court in Baton Rouge.
A state judge Friday ordered Baton Rouge rapper NBA YoungBoy held behind bars until at least June 21 while authorities probe whether a man seen in a social media video making violent threats is — as the judge strongly suspects — the same rapper sh…
The owner of a Florida company has been convicted in Baton Rouge federal court of submitting false health insurance applications for plans available under the Affordable Care Act, U.S. Attorney Brandon Fremin said Thursday.
Brandon Boyd, who was 17 when he fired randomly into a crowd on La Margie Avenue in 2014 and killed a man, will claim in an appeal to the state Supreme Court that the life without parole term he received after his conviction is excessive for a fir…
Two Baton Rouge men were sentenced to 10 years in federal prison Wednesday for possessing guns as convicted felons, U.S. Attorney Brandon Fremin said.
A south Louisiana pharmacist who made a $640,000 profit by trafficking and selling stolen HIV medication was sentenced Wednesday to nine years in federal prison, U.S. Attorney Brandon Fremin reported.
Cheryl Patterson spoke from a wheelchair inside a Baton Rouge courtroom Wednesday and said she lost her independence and her “best friend” last May when a drug-impaired Springfield man smashed his pickup head-on into their car on Siegen Lane, seve…
A Greenwell Springs man who had been set to stand trial Monday in Baton Rouge in the fatal 2017 shooting of two Baker men will now be tried in August.
GONZALES — Marquette Transportation's president and other company officials on Saturday placed blame for the Sunshine Bridge crash squarely on the tugboat captain and pilot, saying they failed to follow the company's internal safety and voyage pla…
A 6-year-old lawsuit that claims high heat indexes on Louisiana's death row subjects three ailing condemned killers to cruel and unusual punishment, and leaves them at risk of serious illness or even death, has been conditionally dismissed by a fe…
Marquette tug ran different crane into another Mississippi River bridge before Sunshine Bridge crash
GONZALES — A Marquette Transportation tugboat ran a crane barge into the Veterans Memorial Bridge near Gramercy a month and a half before a different Marquette tug also pushing a crane barge had a more serious crash last fall with the Sunshine Bri…
Calling a Baton Rouge judge's award of $96,000 in damages "abusively low," a state appeals court has ordered Rouzan developer Tommy Spinosa's company to pay $480,000 to two property owners for building homes on an access road they own.
GONZALES — A crane barge crash into the Sunshine Bridge last fall should have caused the Mississippi River bridge to collapse, a top state highway official told a federal panel investigating the crash Thursday.