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A law that was passed by the Louisiana State Legislature takes effect this Sunday that will make text messaging while driving a primary offense. Prior to this weekend, police were able to cite drivers for text messaging...

A committee created by the Kenner City Council last week, after a proposal to require bars to close between 2 am and 6 am was voted down, will be meeting for the first time this Monday. The committee will be discussing...

The St. Tammany Parish Jail has come under serious fire from the ACLU as a result of an assessment conducted by a prison facility consultant who was hired after a number of inmates managed to escape from the facility. The...

The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has reached a consensus that the slew of upcoming Oil Spill Litigation Cases will be tried in federal court in New Orleans before Judge Carl J. Barbier. Early speculation...

President Obama’s top advisor on energy and climate change issued a statement today that indicated that he would be supporting an initiative proposed by Louisiana Senator, Mary Landrieu that would result in the...

BP announced today that the procedure involving pumping heavy mud into its damaged oil well known as a ‘static kill’ appears to have been successful and that the company will be able to begin the process of...

In a statement released today, BP announced that in order to expedite the claims process for businesses experiencing critical cash flow shortages as a result of the oil spill that it would begin referring business owners to...

The Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office has been running a program since October 2009 that allows individuals convicted of non-violent crimes to avoid incarceration. The New Orleans Day Reporting Center involves 2 levels of

An oil spill flowing from a breached pipeline into the Kalamazoo River in Michigan was reported earlier this week and is now estimated to have released 800,000 gallons into the surrounding areas prompting the declaration of a

For the second night in a row, the NOPD will be enforcing a sobriety checkpoint from 9PM to 5AM, this time in the Algiers area. No details are available with regard to the exact location of the checkpoint at this time....

The New Orleans Police Department issued a statement today indicating that a sobriety checkpoint will be in place in the Uptown area tonight from 9PM to 5AM. No details are available with regard to the exact location of the...

This month, New Orleans saw the addition of nine Traffic Enforcement Cameras to the already dozens in place throughout the city. This means that local drivers must be ever more vigilant about speeding and obeying traffic...

When’s the last time you heard of people lining up to receive tickets from the police? Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers have become popular with the children of Vancouver after instituting an innovative program...

The L.A. Times has reported that a California judge has granted actor Mel Gibson’s request that his 2006 arrest for drunk driving be expunged from his record. In July 2006, Gibson was arrested following a speeding stop,

The Daily Mail and AP report that staff at the First National Bank outside of Cincinatti, Ohio were amazed when two young girls, aged 12 and 14 claimed to have a handgun staged a hold-up last week. After making off with an...

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...

Three people dead, one wounded in overnight New Orleans shooting By The Times-Picayune January 08, 2010, 6:00AM nopd-badge.jpg An overnight shooting left two young women and one young man dead, according to the New Orleans...

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...