CLINTON, La. (AP) - An East Feliciana Parish jury deliberated less than 45 minutes before convicting a Roseland man of second-degree murder in the death of his estranged girlfriend. The Advocate reports 34-year-old Antwoene Irving was found guilty Thursday. State District Judge George H. Ware Jr. set sentencing for Nov.... more »
HOLDEN, La. (AP) Livingston Parish sheriff's deputies say a 27-year-old Holden man has been arrested in the fatal shooting of his 42-year-old girlfriend. The Advocate reports deputies found Brenda Myers at her Holden home on Tuesday with a fatal gunshot wound to her head. Sheriff's detectives booked Myers' boyfriend, Joseph... more »
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) A 23-year-old Baton Rouge man has been sentenced to 40 years in prison in the 2007 stabbing death of his 17-year-old girlfriend at her apartment. State District Judge Bonnie Jackson, who convicted Alexander Hooks of manslaughter in April, imposed the maximum sentence Monday in the June... more »
NATCHITOCHES, La. (AP) Police say a 35-year-old Natchitoches woman was found dead from a gunshot wound early Wednesday morning. The Alexandria Town Talk reports 32-year-old Rodney Barnes has been booked with second-degree murder in the death of his girlfriend, Chackawanda Moore Beard. Police say an argument between the two late... more »
NEW ROADS, La. (AP) A state judge has revoked the $250,000 bond set for a man charged in the death of his girlfriend last year. In rescinding Larry J. Snyder Jr.'s bond on Wednesday, prosecutors say District Judge James Best described him as an imminent threat to society and a... more »
OPELOUSAS, La. (AP) A man free on bond in the July 2009 death of his girlfriend has been arrested following a hit-and-run crash in Ascension Parish. The Daily World reports Larry John Snyder Jr., who faces a second-degree murder charge in the death of Davina Chapman in Pointe Coupee Parish,... more »
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) A judge has found a 23-year-old man guilty of manslaughter in the 2007 stabbing death of his 17-year-old girlfriend at her Baton Rouge apartment. The Advocate reports that prosecutors had asked state District Judge Bonnie Jackson to find Alexander Hooks guilty of second-degree murder, which carries... more »
OPELOUSAS, La. (AP) Larry John Snyder is free after posting a $250,000 bond in Pointe Coupee Parish and a $100,000 bond in St. Landry Parish. Snyder is accused in the death of his longtime girlfriend, Davina Chapman, in Pointe Coupee Parish after allegedly kidnapping her July 18 from a Krotz... more »
LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) - A 57-year-old Lafayette man has pleaded guilty to a manslaughter charge after setting his girlfriend on fire in August 2007. The Advocate reports Wilbert Clark Jr. received a 40-year prison sentence Tuesday in the death of Sandra Anderson, whom he set on fire at the couple's... more »
OPELOUSAS, La. (AP) State Judge Alonzo Harris has reduced Larry John Snyder's bond from $250,000 to $100,000 on a kidnapping charge. Authorities say Snyder kidnapped his longtime girlfriend, Davina Chapman, on July 18 from a Krotz Springs bar. Chapman's body was found the next day in neighboring Pointe Coupee Parish.... more »