At least 13 people were wounded, including one in critical condition, after a shooting at a large memorial service in Louisiana on Saturday night in honor of a man who was recently found murdered in the woods, according to police. The Bogalusa Police Department began receiving 911 calls around 9 p.m. Saturday night that gunfire rang out downtown…
Tony Spell, pastor of the Life Tabernacle Church, is shown leaving East Baton Rouge Parish jail on April 21 after posting bond in Baton Rouge, La. Spell on Sunday violated a house arrest and gave a sermon at his church. (Gerald Herbert, Associated Press)CENTRAL, Louisiana — A pastor who previously has defied Louisiana’s stay-at-home order…
(CNN)A four-hour standoff with a homicide suspect in Louisiana left one police officer dead and another critically injured, Baton Rouge Chief Murphy Paul said in a news briefing Sunday. A 21-year veteran of the police department was killed in the shooting an…
NEW ORLEANS — Ray Lubrano’s family was urged to keep him away from the hospital that would eventually put him in a coma and save his life. Stricken with COVID-19 in late March, Mr. Lubrano, 69, developed a wracking cough that brought him to his knees and a feeling “like glass was being stuck into…
Louisiana pastor Tony Spell defied the state's stay-at-home order and his own house arrest to hold church services Sunday, The Advocate reported.Spell was spotted leaving his home Sunday and preaching at his church Life Tabernacle Church where his congregants sang and lifted signs that said “I stand with Pastor Spell,” according to the newspaper. The pastor’s ankle monitor…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…