The Peach Cobbler Factory Continues Rapid Expansion With Four New New Orleans Locations

Louisville, KY – Peach Cobbler Factory company officials announce another multi-unit franchise deal in New Orleans, Louisiana. The new retail desert shops will be owned and operated by Ernest and Tins Brunet.…

Business News·Food & Dining

Dead, Sick Deer Are Turning Up Everywhere In One State. Some Biologists Suspect ‘Blue Tongue’

Authorities in Mississippi said Wednesday they’ve witnessed an increased number of sick or dead deer, and suspect one disease could be the cause, the Associated Press reported. The Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries,…

Health and Wellness·Pets and Animals·US and World News

Bismarck Man Sentenced To 30 Years In Federal Prison For Sexual Exploitation Of A Minor

HOT SPRINGS, ARK. – Aaron Edward Briggs, 28, formerly of Morgan City, Louisiana, was sentenced yesterday to thirty (30) years in prison without the possibility of parole on one count of Sexual…

Border Patrol Agents Apprehend Mexican with Active Felony Warrant

EDINBURG, Texas – Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol (RGV) agents arrested two sex offenders and a Mexican national with an outstanding warrant for manslaughter. This morning, Fort Brown Border Patrol Station…

Police Blotter

Two More Mexican Nationals Are Sentenced After Pleading Guilty to International Timeshare Telemarketing Scam

NEW ORLEANS – CLAUDUA ANTILLON ZAHUITA, age 38, and SERGIO LEON KURI, age 40, both residents and citizens of Mexico, were sentenced to prison on September 29, 2021 by U.S. District Court Judge…

Federal Judge Sentences West Bank Drug Dealer to 140 Months Imprisonment

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – DAVID TRAN, age 42, of Bridge City, Louisiana, was sentenced on September 29, 2021 by the Honorable Jane Triche Milazzo to 140 months in the Bureau of Prisons…

Houston crew convicted of violent ATM robberies

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – Three Houston men have pleaded guilty to a string of Love’s Travel Stop robberies throughout Texas and Louisiana, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery. Christopher Bernard Brown…

Mississippi Man Sentenced for Robbing Kentwood Bank

NEW ORLEANS, LA – United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that STEVEN WILLIAMS, age 35 of Jackson, Mississippi, was sentenced on September 28, 2021 to 13 years and 8 months in…

Houston Man Who Supplied Methamphetamine to White Supremacist Gang Sentenced in Eastern District of Texas

BEAUMONT, Texas – A Houston man has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei today. Eulalio Torres-Cadenas,…

Shreveport Man Sentenced on Firearms Charge

SHREVEPORT, La. – Johnny Dewayne Young, Jr., 60, of Shreveport, Louisiana, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Donald E. Walter to 48 months in prison, followed by 3 years of…

Two Plead Guilty to Health Care Fraud Scheme

NEW ORLEANS – U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced DONALD PETER AUZINE (“AUZINE”) and BONNIE JEAN LAWLESS DIAZ (“DIAZ”) have each pled guilty in federal court relating to their roles in a…

Northeastern Iowa Man Sentenced to Federal Prison For Guiding and Outfitting Illegal Deer Hunts

A Northeastern Iowa man who guided and outfitted illegal deer hunts was sentenced on September 23, 2021, to federal prison. Cory Gene Fritzler, age 46, from Lansing, Iowa, received the prison term…

Senate Republicans Filibuster Government Funding Bill Over Debt Ceiling Provision With Three Days Until Shutdown

Senate Republicans Monday filibustered Democrats’ bill to fund the government and suspend the debt ceiling, days before a potential federal shutdown and possible debt default. Republicans vowed for weeks to oppose a…

Politics

Mandeville Man Sentenced for Defrauding FEMA After a Disaster

NEW ORLEANS – U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that BRUCE D. COX, age 62, of Mandeville, was sentenced on September 23, 2021 to one year of probation and over $35,000 in…

Two Men Plead Guilty to Federal Firearm and Drug Trafficking Charges Stemming from Their Participation in a Winter Shootout at a New Orleans Hotel

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced today, that CHRIS ROSS, age 20 from Slidell and TREJON HOWARD, age 20 from New Orleans pled guilty on September 22, 2021…

Shipping Company Fined $2M in a Multi-District Case for Concealing Illegal Discharges of Oily Water into the Atlantic Ocean

WASHINGTON – Diana Wilhelmsen Management Limited (DWM), a Cyprus-based company that operates several commercial vessels, was sentenced today in federal court before U.S. District Court Judge Rebecca Beach Smith in Norfolk, Virginia,…

Man Sentenced for Attempted Robbery of an ATM

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – TYRIK SCOTT, age 21, a resident of Violet, Louisiana, was sentenced on September 21. 2021 by the Honorable Susie Morgan, announced U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans. SCOTT was…

Amazon Is Awarding Cars And Cash Prizes To Warehouse, Retail Workers That Get Vaccinated

Amazon is handing out cash prizes and vehicles to its workers that receive the COVID-19 vaccine as part of a push to vaccinate more of its frontline employees. The company announced on one…

US and World News

Illegal Possession of Drugs and Firearms Send Two Shreveport Men to Federal Prison

SHREVEPORT, La. – Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that two defendants were sentenced today by United States District Judge Donald E. Walter to time in federal prison for…

Attorney General Alan Wilson joins 24-state coalition demanding President Biden drop vaccine mandate or risk legal action

(COLUMBIA, S.C.) – Attorney General Alan Wilson and 23 other attorneys general (AGs) sent a letter to President Biden today, warning that litigation will follow the implementation of the proposed mandate on…

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