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Testimony ends in park double killing

March 25, 2013 8:37 AM

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Testimony has ended in the trial of an East Feliciana Parish man accused of killing an ex-girlfriend and her 3-year-old son, and trying to kill two other children of hers - including his own daughter. Dominique Dantoni Smith is accused of killing Jessica Johnson Palmer... more »
Judge Refuses to Compel Transocean CEO's Testimony

February 2, 2012 8:21 AM

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A federal magistrate has ruled that Transocean Ltd. doesn't have to make its CEO, Steve Newman, available to testify at a trial for tens of thousands of court claims spawned by the Gulf oil spill in 2010. BP PLC, which leased the Transocean-owned rig that caught... more »
Testimony under way in Angola 5 case

September 7, 2011 10:18 AM

ST. FRANCISVILLE, La. (AP) - A prosecutor told a jury that Angola inmate Robert G. Carley was a leader in an escape plot that led to the death of prison security Capt. David C. Knapps nearly 12 years ago. Tommy Block, lead prosecutor in the so-called Angola 5 murder trials,... more »