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A report released by the Governors’ Highway Safety Association last week has drawn attention to what seems to be a growing problem in Louisiana: motorcycle safety. The state’s motorcycle related deaths increased by 28...

The House Committee on the Administration of Criminal Justice involuntarily deferred House Bill 103 last week. The rejected bill would have criminalized exposing undergarments and the “cleft of the buttocks.” The...

The United States’ slumping economy appears to be on the rise after an April that saw a growth in hiring that netted 290,000 new jobs. This is the biggest such growth the country has seen in four years and continues in 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...

Bobby Jindal has not made it a secret that he would like for the Lieutenant Governor office to be abolished in the last few months. With the recent departure of Mitch Landrieu to be the Mayor of New Orleans from the post, he

United and Continental Airlines are planning a massive merger between the nation’s third and fourth largest carriers by traffic respectively to combine to become the world’s biggest. United CEO Glenn Tilton and...

On the day in which the last remaining Mumbai terrorist was found guilty in India, the New York City Police Department continues to search through hundreds of hours of CCTV tape to find a glimpse of a man responsible for the

Rev. Rusty Durand and Rev. Toney Cooksey, pastor of a church in Pine Grove, are encouraging authorities to shut down a new nightclub, “The Mansion.” The establishment is located east of Montpelier and west of the truck...

The explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oilrig on April 20th and its subsequent sinking two days later has left the Gulf of Mexico facing a potential disaster. The explosion has left 11 men presumed dead, and 4 others in...

The Arizona Legislature has recently enacted a law, which calls for police departments to ask its residents for proof of their immigration status, including even demanding identification. While liberals and conservatives...

The Louisiana House of Representatives’ Criminal Justice Committee approved a group of bills that will help make it easier for nonviolent criminals to get out of jail earlier. The proposal of bills will now proceed to the...

In 1990, the Louisiana legislature instituted a tax whereby drug dealers would be required to buy tax stamps and attach them to bags of drugs or face stern penalties if they were caught without them. Louisiana’s Marijuana...

The state of Utah is scheduled to execute Ronnie Lee Gardner, a convicted murderer, by firing squad. Currently, 35 other states consider the death penalty as a means of justice. However, Utah is currently the only state that

Camille Brewton, a 66 year old and Baton Rouge resident, has filed a suit claiming that her firing from her position as a data entry clerk with the State Police “amounts to ‘disability- based discrimination and...

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...

Today, consumers must be more careful than ever when making decisions on large purchases such as vehicles. In another blow to Toyota’s previously sterling record for safety and quality, the auto giant has announced that it