Former St. Landry Parish School Board member John Miller has been sentenced to ten months of house arrest and two years of probation for trying to sell his vote during the school system's search for a new superintendent last year.
Iberia Parish Sheriff Louis Ackal has requested that the FBI investigate an alleged brutality charge against at least one unidentified stemming from an incident at the Sugar Cane Festival in September.
Iberia Parish Sheriff's Department spokeman Ryan Turner told the Daily Advertiser that the Bureau has been asked to determine "any possible criminal matters involving the incident...
Wade Michael Page, the shooter in Sunday’s massacre at a Wisconsin Sikh temple, was originally thought to have been gunned down by police — but new evidence is emerging that indicates he, like many other spree killers before him, actually took his own life.
Former St. Gabriel Mayor George Grace has pleaded not guilty in federal court to two new charges in the undercover FBI sting known as Operation Blighted Officials.
Harahan's police chief says the department's patrol commander has resigned and another officer is on leave in an investigation of how the agency handles federal grants.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A New Orleans police sergeant who admitted lying to the FBI in its probe of a deadly police shooting after Hurricane Katrina has resigned.
The FBI and Lafayette area law enforcement are seeking the public’s assistance in identifying the individual(s) responsible for the burning of a car at the Islamic Center of Lafayette.