louisiana
A 58-year-old man has been arrested and charged after allegedly shooting a 14-year-old girl in the back of the head while she was playing hide-and-seek with friends. Per a news release from the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office in Louisiana, David V. Doyle has told detectives that he “observed people running away from his property” over […]
A water plant worker has been arrested and fired from his job after video showed him urinating in the water supply at the Ascension, Louisiana plant earlier this month, WRBZ reports. As the Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office confirmed, the worker seen in the disturbing footage has been identified as 57-year-old Michael Mastion. After the video […]
Two teens say they’ve historically solved Pythagoras’ famous theorem by using trigonometry. New Orleans natives Calcea Johnson and Ne’Kiya Jackson, who attend St. Mary’s Academy, presented their findings in Georgia for the American Mathematical Society’s semi-annual southeastern chapter meeting. According to the Guardian, the two students were the only high schoolers in attendance, alongside math researchers from the universities of […]
Early Saturday morning, six people were left wounded by multiple gunmen opening fire on a crowd of pedestrians in Shreveport, Louisiana, KTBS reports. The incident unfolded at 1:45 a.m. when multiple shooters appeared from a silver sedan on Market Street and started randomly shooting into a crowd. Police stated that three women and three men were injured, […]
A Louisiana man who pleaded guilty to felony charges of second-degree rape has been required to under chemical castration. Fox affiliate WVUE-TV reports Ryan Clark, 34, was sentenced this week to 35 years in prison for rape and molestation charges with 25 of those years to be served without the benefit of parole or probation. Earlier this […]
The Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections (LDOC) “routinely confines people in its custody” beyond their legally entitled release dates, the Justice Department said this week when announcing the findings of their investigation. Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division said Wednesday that the agency’s investigation had found evidence of “systematic […]
YoungBoy Never Broke Again is looking to continue his hot streak. After releasing a slew of projects in 2022, the Baton Rouge native kicks off the new year with his fifth studio album I Rest My Case. YoungBoy announced the effort in late November, around the time he and Quando Rondo delivered their joint mixtape 3860. “My next album […]
A 29-year-old man has been arrested and charged with murder after allegedly killing his Uber driver in a hotel parking lot in the Harvey area of Louisiana. According to a report from regional outlet WWL-TV, the Uber driver in question has been identified as 54-year-old Yolanda Dillion, who also worked as a budget analyst for the […]
A kindergartner was reportedly removed from a school in Louisiana because of the so-called “lifestyle choices” of her adoptive parents Emily and Jennie Parker. The Parkers were two days away from taking their 5-year-old daughter Zoey to her first day of kindergarten at the Bible Baptist Academy when they were informed in a meeting with the director and pastor […]
A Louisiana judge has reversed a decision that gave a man full custody of his teenage daughter, who was allegedly conceived from rape. According to WBRZ, Judge Jeffrey Cashe announced his decision Tuesday after Crysta Abelseth went public with her shocking custody battle with John Barnes. Abelseth said she had met the man in 2005, when she was just […]
