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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,...

By Drew Broach, The Times-Picayune January 29, 2010, 11:45PM A Metairie man who supplied the heroin that killed his restaurant co-worker during Carnival 2008 has pleaded guilty to federal charges of conspiracy and...

By Michelle Hunter, The Times-Picayune January 28, 2010, 5:22PM A Metairie man faces up to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty Thursday in federal court to dealing Ecstasy. Lance Gassen, 24, of 2720 Independence St.,...

A lesson on why you should always show up for your court date: Former child star and actor Gary Coleman was arrested Sunday after police responded to a domestic disturbance call at his Utah home. The officers quickly...

By Ed Anderson, The Times-Picayune January 25, 2010, 7:14PM Gov. Bobby Jindal’s Task Force on Driving While Intoxicated and Vehicular Homicide agreed Monday to look into the possibility of increasing fines and penalties

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

By Ramon Antonio Vargas, The Times-Picayune January 22, 2010, 6:13PM alfred_celestain_funeral_hearse.JPGRusty Costanza/The Times-PicayuneA New Orleans police officer salutes the hearse carrying Alfred Celestain Sr. past the...

By Ramon Antonio Vargas, The Times-Picayune January 21, 2010, 2:01PM celestain-off-duty.jpgEliot Kamenitz / The Times-PicayuneAlfred Celestain practices for a police officer fund-raising music concert in 2004. Celestain died

By Joy Hirdes, The Times-Picayune January 21, 2010, 4:30PM Nikia Adams.jpgNikia Adams A New Orleans police officer was arrested this morning and booked with two counts of animal cruelty after authorities say one of her dogs...

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 Benjamin Alexander-Bloch January 18, 2010, 5:29PM A suspect has been apprehended in the afternoon shooting of two teenagers found near the West Bank’s Martin Luther King Jr. parade. About 2:15 p.m., parade goers...

TMZ reports that Security guards at a posh Golden Globes after-party this weekend saved Ed Lauter a ton of trouble when they steered the drunken actor away from his car and into a cab despite his protests. Witnesses report...