JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - Four Chinese nationals have been arrested in Indonesia for allegedly attempting to smuggle hornbill's beaks and pangolin scales for use in traditional medicines. Forestry Ministry official Novianto Bambang says the men were detained Friday with 248 hornbill's beaks and 189 pangolin's skins in their luggage at... more »
WEST MONROE, La. (AP) - A West Monroe city employee has been arrested on a charge he sold city-owned property. The News-Star reports 44-year-old Marvin Lancaster was booked Thursday into Ouachita Correctional Center on a theft charge. Bond wasn't immediately set. Police say Lancaster admitted he stole and sold scrap... more »
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Baton Rouge fire investigators are looking into an arson that occurred at the Mentorship Academy. Fire department spokesman Robert Combs tells The Advocate firefighters were called to the school just before 3:30 p.m. Thursday to find a small fire in the third-floor boys restroom. Combs... more »
BILOXI, Miss. (AP) - An armed robbery suspect shot in Biloxi by police was a person of interest in a Louisiana murder. Harrison County Coroner Gary Hargrove identified the man as 56-year-old Carl L. Wise, of Scottsdale, Ariz. Hargrove told WLOX-TV that Wise died in surgery from a gunshot wound... more »
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The FBI arrested a Loyola University student who allegedly sent threatening emails to the campus police department. Federal prosecutors say one of the emails from 21-year-old Evelyn A. Hubbard threatened to blow up a building where she was scheduled to take a test on the morning... more »
BOSSIER CITY, La. (AP) - Authorities say parental pressure over a relationship may have contributed to a Bossier City teen couple's murder-suicide. Ed Baswell, Bossier Parish sheriff's office spokesman, tells The Times an uncle found the bodies of the teens in a pickup about 5 p.m. Tuesday just north of... more »
LIMA, Peru (AP) - The search is on in Chile today for a man long suspected in the 2005 disappearance of U.S. teen Natalee Holloway on Aruba and who is now the prime suspect in a killing in Peru. Police in Chile say Joran van der Sloot (YOHR'-uhn VAN'-dur-sloht) entered... more »
GRETNA, La. (AP) - A man suspected of abducting a grandmother in a suburban New Orleans park and killing her in 2006 has been arrested in Mexico, according to the Jefferson Parish sheriff. Edmundo Cerda-Anima, 25, was taken into custody Friday with the help of the New Orleans Violent Crime... more »