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BATON ROUGE — Prosecutors have filed papers with Louisianas 1st Circuit Court of Appeal hoping to reverse an acquittal for a Baton Rouge Police officer accused of grabbing the breasts of a female motorist he had pulled over. They say the judges earlier decision to convict the officer should stand.

A Texas lawyer pleaded guilty this week to setting his ex-girlfriend’s Baton Rouge home ablaze last year, even after being court-ordered to stay 100 feet from the woman’s residence.

Brunswick is the home of three former Maine governors: Joshua L. Chamberlain (32nd) and Angus King (72nd) are both well known. However, most have forgotten the first man of Brunswick elected to the top office in the state, serving as Maine’s 11th chief executive. On Aug 17, 1794, more than 26 years before Maine’s statehood, […]

On Tuesday, the Louisiana Supreme Court added a new — and likely final — twist to the winding case of a former Baton Rouge gym teacher who went viral after

BATON ROUGE - When it comes to trial judges, their decisions are usually held in the highest regard. For 19th JDC Judge Eboni Johnson Rose, some of those decisions have seen a lot of pushback.

A report on a blithering incompetent on the bench in Baton Rouge gives cause for a discussion about how to make judges more accountable.

East Baton Rouge District Attorney Hillar Moore's office says they strongly disagree with the court after a former Baton Rouge police officer was cleared of a charge he was found guilty of in March.

BATON ROUGE — A judge acquitted a former Baton Rouge police officer on a malfeasance charge Thursday, a month after finding him guilty.

Twenty-three days after she found former Baton Rouge police Officer Donald Steele Jr. guilty of a "misdemeanor grade" of malfeasance in office, District Judge Eboni Johnson Rose admitted Thursday that

Two weeks after a former Baton Rouge police officer was found guilty of malfeasance in office for trying pressure a woman he pulled over for sex, his fate still hangs