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By Brendan McCarthy, The Times-Picayune January 22, 2010, 7:13PM Michael DeMocker/The Times-Picayune archiveThe Sportsman’s Corner bar was photographed in June 2007. Attorneys for the city of New Orleans recently...

By Laura Maggi, The Times-Picayune January 22, 2010, 11:05PM leon_cannizzaro_gallier_hall.JPGTed Jackson, The Times-Picayune archiveDistrict Attorney Leon Cannizzaro was photographed on the night of his State of the Criminal

By Donald Melanson posted Jan 20th 2010 2:16PM TruTouch Technologies has been working on various non-invasive means to detect intoxication for quite a while now (like the rather elaborate TruTouch Guardian pictured at right),

By Gwen Filosa, The Times-Picayune January 19, 2010, 8:49PM leon-cannizzaro-speech.JPGTed Jackson / The Times-Picayune’We must be willing to think differently today, to work together to build a more modern...

By Gwen Filosa, The Times-Picayune January 09, 2010, 1:04PM Prosecutors have dropped a criminal case against an investigator for the Orleans Parish Public Defenders Office, months after a dramatic court hearing in which she...

By The Associated Press January 07, 2010, 6:50AM Louisiana will conduct its first execution since 2002 when convicted killer Gerald Bordelon is put to death today by injection for murdering his 12-year-old stepdaughter. State

For most folk, when you think about drunk driving the worst case scenario is seeing those flashing red lights behind you, and knowing that you’re about to be taken down to jail with your license being at risk, your...

Since Katrina, there hasn’t been access to crime information for locals like folk in other parts of the country get all the time.  For example, over in San Antonio, anyone interested in the number of crimes in their...

In Louisiana, you only get so much time to file your lawsuit.  If you miss this deadline, then it doesn’t matter how valid your claim is – or how horrible the evildoer defendant is, or how serious the injuries...

Barron Hilton, Paris Hilton’s kid brother, got busted for Driving Under the Influence (DUI) early yesterday morning — the time of his Malibu arrest was 8:05 a.m.  Seems Barron took a breathilizer (did he check...

Today, Drew Peterson announced that he has created a website with a fund, established for those who would like to help him pay his legal fees.  AP reports that the site includes the following language (the site itself,...

Yesterday, according to the Associated Press, Transformers star Shia LaBeouf was in a Chicago Walgreen’s store, and a security guard told LaBeouf that he needed to leave because LeBeouf looked like he...

A model based out of Seattle, Washington, is claiming that magician David Copperfield flew her to his private $50-million island estate in the Bahamas, and at some point during this magical getaway, she was raped. Upon...

The Guardian has compiled a good overview of what happened in Vegas with OJ Simpson in the hotel room with all the sports memorabilia.  The Associated Press has prepared a timeline, as well. TMZ is quoting a story from the...

Viacom has sued Google for $1,000,000,000.00 (yep, a billion dollars) for copyright infringement because YouTube has stuff on it from shows Viacom owns.  Google says No Problemo:  they’re complying with the Digital...