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Preston Porter is charged with Aggravated Rape of a Juvenile and Second Degree Kidnapping of a juvenile in Orleans Criminal District Court from an alleged incident occurred on January 3rd, 2012. Prosecutor Blair Bertholet presented the mother of the victim on the first day of [...]

Police say a Kenner man found himself behind bars after a series of unfortunate events. Throme LaCroix, 20, was arrested Saturday after authorities say he accidentally blasted a friend in the arm with a shotgun, slammed his car into a pick-up truck while fleeing the scene and left [...]

DENVER — Marijuana for recreational usebecame legal in Colorado Monday, when the governor took the procedural step of declaring the voter-approved change part of the state constitution. Colorado became the second state after Washington to allow pot use without a doctor’s recommendation. Both states prohibit public [...]

Illegal Carrying and Discharge of Weapons — 14:94 Illegal use of weapons or dangerous instrumentality is the intentional or criminally negligent discharging of any firearm, or the throwing, placing, or other use of any article, liquid, or substance, where it is foreseeable that it may result in [...]

School Bus Shot as Crime in New Orleans Rises The NOPD is investigating a Monday afternoon shooting in Treme, where a man was injured and a bullet hit a school bus, shattering a window. A girl aboard the bus was cut by the flying glass, according to officer [...]

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court appeared reluctant Wednesday to allow police to routinely order blood tests for unwilling drunken-driving suspects without at least trying to obtain a search warrant from a judge. The court heard arguments Wednesday in a case about a disputed blood test from Missouri, [...]

The New Orleans Police Department said that five people were shot in Central City on Monday afternoon. Police said that the shooting occurred shortly after 1 p.m. on the corner ofLaSalle Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. A New Orleans police officer investigates the scene of [...]

The man fatally shot by an auto shop owner during a dispute Thursday night in the Lafitte neighborhood has been identified by the Orleans Parish coroner. Eric Dorsey, 28, was shot several times outside the Easy Finish Auto shop in the 300 block of N. Galvez Streetshortly after 9 [...]

A civil dispute between an auto shop owner and a customer turned deadly Thursday night in the Lafitte neighborhood. After conducting a preliminary investigation, NOPD homicide detectives believed the 25-year-old owner of Easy Finish Auto was likely justified in fatally shooting a 28-year-old man who [...]

An Orleans Parish judge on Thursday ruled that the state statute forbidding certain felons from possessing firearms is unconstitutional, in the wake of a constitutional amendment passed last year that made the right to bear arms a fundamental one in Louisiana. The issue will now go straight [...]