HESSMER, La. (AP) - Authorities say 34-year-old Hessmer man is dead and his girlfriend is in critical condition after being shot in the face during a domestic incident. Avoyelles Parish sheriff's deputies tell The Town Talk Dwayne E. Franks was found dead in his home and 26-year-old Michelle Lee was... more »
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - New Orleans police are investigating the stabbing death of a man following a domestic dispute. Police spokesman Garry Flot tells The Times-Picayune the 39-year-old man, whose name has not been released, died at a nearby hospital Sunday. Flot says 31-year-old Monica Pollard was booked with second-degree... more »
LONDON (AP) - Prince William and girlfriend Kate Middleton are engaged and will marry next spring or summer in London - a royal wedding that Britons have been eagerly awaiting for years. The announcement Tuesday by royal officials ends an on-again, off-again romance that began after the two met more... more »
A Eunice man is arrested after allegedly beating his girlfriend and her 5 year old daughter.
Police say Cody White entered his ex-girlfriend's house without permission....assaulted her and her child. After being arrested, White escaped but was re-captured and booked into the St Landry Parish jail. He faces15-charges including... more »
A 44-year-old Mississippi man has pleaded guilty to killing his girlfriend in a suburban New Orleans motel three years ago. Terry Robinson had been accused of slashing and strangling 32-year-old Lesley Justice. Both were from Starkville. Robinson pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. He... more »
NEW ROADS, La. (AP) - A state judge on Wednesday revoked the $250,000 bond set for a man charged with killing his girlfriend last year, ordering the defendant held in jail until his July trial. In rescinding Larry J. Snyder Jr.'s bond, District Judge James Best described him as an... more »
ABERDEEN, Miss. (AP) - A federal judge says he won't force a Mississippi school district to hold a prom canceled after a lesbian student asked to bring her girlfriend. The American Civil Liberties Union sued in U.S. District Court to force the Itawamba County school district to sponsor the prom... more »
Relationship Violence Ends in Arrest
On November 19, 2009, at approximately 7:30 pm, officers with the Lafayette Police Department responded to the 300 block of Lafayette Street regarding a disturbance. The victim, a 52 year old male of Lafayette, advised officers that the suspect, his current girlfriend, followed him... more »
On October 28, 2009, the St. Landry Parish Sheriff Department received information concerning a possible murder for hire. The information stemmed from an ongoing divorce battle involving a Eunice couple.
According to Sheriff Bobby J. Guidroz, Detectives received information that a Eunice woman wanted to hire a hit man... more »
St. Landry- On October 22, agents with Louisiana State Police Region II Criminal Investigation Division arrested a St. Landry man and his girlfriend for charges of obtaining a controlled dangerous substance by fraud.
In October 2009, agents began an investigation on thirty-one-year-old Devin Acaldo and his girlfriend twenty-nine-year-old Stephanie... more »