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The senate committee on Judiciary C has approved House Bill 617 narrowly by a 4-3 vote due to Senator Elbert Guillory (D-Opelousas) crossing party lines. The bill would mandate that 20 percent of all recipients of welfare...

Following the FBI’s uniform crime report, which was released in the latter days of May, New Orleans ranked at the top for the highest murder rate per capita in the country. With the use of the most recent data from the...

On May 20th, Ignatius Hills submitted his resignation to the New Orleans Police Department, the day before he would be charged on accounts of involvement with the Danziger Bridge shooting that occurred right after Hurricane...

During the month of May, three police officers were arrested and charged with different accounts of domestic violence within the New Orleans area. Fifth District officer Robbie Bangham was involved in a verbal conflict with a

Twenty-four of the sixty homicides that have occurred in New Orleans this year have taken place in the city’s fifth district. Despite the high rate of homicides in the fifth district, this area of the city (which includes...

In mid-March, the Department of Public Safety and Corrections teamed with Crime Stoppers and the Louisiana Lottery Corporation to produce 20,000 decks of cards to be distributed to the public and inmates with the faces and...

The justice system in San Francisco has taken a major blow as Deborah Madden, a 60-year-old woman and worker at the San Francisco crime lab for 29 years, has jeopardized hundreds of past convictions after being implicated in

On August 6, 2009, Orleans Parish District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro Jr. proposed to the New Orleans City Council to pass an ordinance that would allow for simple possession of marijuana cases to be tried in municipal court...

By Brendan McCarthy, The Times-Picayune February 17, 2010, 7:00PM With a Super Bowl victory immediately followed by the final week of Carnival, New Orleans has resembled a moveable feast of late. Amid all the revelry and...

By Ramon Antonio Vargas, The Times-Picayune February 18, 2010, 7:14AM sherwood-solomon.jpgMurder suspect Sherwood Solomon, 26A man accused of fatally shooting 43-year-old Braddock Chambliss just blocks from the Krewe of...

By The Times-Picayune February 13, 2010, 9:45AM By Brendan McCarthy and Laura Maggi, staff writers and A.C. Thompson, ProPublica Henry Glover’s burned remains were found weeks after Hurricane Katrina inside an...

By Times-Picayune Staff February 08, 2010, 6:43PM An inmate who escaped from the Orleans Parish jail just hours before the Super Bowl on Sunday was recaptured Monday afternoon, a spokesman for Criminal Sheriff Marlin Gusman...

By Michelle Hunter, The Times-Picayune February 04, 2010, 6:01PM Craig Codina, a multiple DWI offender from Destrehan, pleaded guilty Monday to vehicular homicide and third-offense DWI in connection with two separate Metairie

By Michelle Hunter, The Times-Picayune February 05, 2010, 1:00AM An independent study of Jefferson Parish’s stop-light cameras, which were switched off last week amid disclosures of payments to the contractor’s...

By Leslie Williams, The Times-Picayune February 04, 2010, 7:15AM Michael DeMocker / The Times-PicayuneA New Orleans police officer examines the body of a man shot to death Wednesday in the 1300 block of France Street as...

By Gwen Filosa, The Times-Picayune February 03, 2010, 11:53AM clifford-pierce.jpgOrleans Criminal Sheriff’s DepartmentClifford G. PierceAn Orleans Parish judge has sentenced Clifford Pierce, 35, to life in prison...

By Michelle Hunter, The Times-Picayune February 02, 2010, 6:15PM Authorities looking to arrest a suspect wanted for auto theft stumbled across a methamphetamine lab operating out of a Metairie apartment Saturday afternoon....

By Bob Ross, The Times-Picayune January 30, 2010, 2:00AM An Orleans Parish grand jury on Friday indicted three people in connection with four homicides, all of which happened in recent months, authorities said. Bryan Hill,...