LSU basketball player Courtese Cooper was arrested over the weekend in his hometown in Illinois and charged with one count of possession of a controlled substance.
A man accused of riding a lawnmower on someone's else land in Louisiana turned out to be a fugitive from Utah who lived here for more than a decade, getting by without an ID and working for cash.
An actor and ex-husband of an actress who starred on "NCIS: New Orleans" was arrested early this week by the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office on rape charges involving a young boy.
A Florida woman was arrested earlier this week after she allegedly crashed her vehicle into a Baton Rouge assisted living home after breaking up with her boyfriend.
51-year-old Christopher Honey of Bend, Oregon was booked into the Deschutes County Jail on Saturday after he shot another man following an argument over the LSU-Alabama game.
Officials with the Lafayette Fire Department say that 30-year-old Al. J. Edmunds of Lafayette was arrested for setting fire to the vacant building early Thursday morning.