NEW ORLEANS (AP) - New Orleans police are investigating the fatal stabbing of an 83-year-old man inside his senior living apartment. Officer Garry Flot said in a news release the man, whose name is being withheld pending notification of family, was found by a security guard at about 7 p.m.... more »
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A 44-year-old New Orleans man has been sentenced to 22 years in prison for his role in two bank robberies and other crimes. A federal jury found Gerard A. Jackson Jr. guilty in April of a June 2009 armed robbery of a credit union branch, a... more »
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A New Orleans man has pleaded guilty to fraudulently receiving a disaster loan worth more than $100,000 after Hurricane Katrina. Federal prosecutors say 46-year-old Torrance Green submitted false documentation to the Small Business Administration in his application for a loan for his real estate business following... more »
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A plea deal Tuesday ended the case of a 2006 shooting rampage in a New Orleans neighborhood that left four people dead. Prosecutors dropped murder charges against Raymond Amison, 23, to manslaughter when he appeared in court for jury selection. In exchange, Amison agreed to serve... more »
SLIDELL, La. (AP) - St. Tammany Parish sheriff's deputies have arrested a New Orleans man for allegedly killing a Slidell-area barber during a botched robbery attempt in 2008. Yosvani Harvey, 19, had already been booked into Orleans Parish Prison on unrelated auto theft and gun charges when he was arrested... more »
MOSS POINT, Miss. (AP) - Police said a Moss Point couple was wounded in an exchange of gunfire that killed a man who tried to get inside their home. Detective J.D. Savage tells The Sun Herald that the investigation points to circumstances that could result in a case of justifiable... more »
ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) - A 29-year-old New Orleans man has been sentenced in Alexandria to a total of 58 years in prison for aggravated battery, robbery, carjacking, purse snatching and other charges arising from an incident last June. The Town Talk newspaper in Alexandria reports Thursday that Felton Hurst, who... more »
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A 47-year-old New Orleans man has been sentenced for making death threats against President Obama. U.S. District Judge Jay Zainey on Tuesday sentenced John Turnpaugh to three years in prison for that charge and another five years for possession of marijuana with intent to distribute it... more »