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A Louisiana mayor is under fire for launching into an altercation with a local resident at a council meeting. Video shows Elton Mayor Kesia Lemoine locking heads with an unidentified woman who she later argued with her inside a meeting room. The footage show Lemoine walking out of the room while yelling at the woman before being held back by other citizens. Footage then shows the woman screaming at Lemoine, saying: 'Keep your f****** hands off of me.' She is also heard saying that she wants to press charges on Lemoine in the video while a group of people try...

The family of a soldier imprisoned after refusing to work claiming he was a conscientious objector was surprised this week by news that he was transferred from a prison in Germany to one in Oklahoma. Former Army Spc. Blake Lemoine, 23, was given a bad-conduct discharge and seven-month prison term last month after being convicted of willfully disobeying orders he received while working in supply for the 596th Maintenance Company in Darmstadt, Germany. He was transferred from a military prison in Mannheim, Germany, to one in Fort Sill, Okla., on Monday, according to an Army spokesman. “Shock,” was the way...

Wife of soldier: 'They can't burn us, so they shut us up'A pagan priest serving in the U.S. Army has been sentenced to seven months jail after being found guilty of willfully disobeying orders. Specialist Blake Lemoine, 23, from Moraville, La., served a year-long tour of duty in Iraq, but became an outspoken critic of the action, and claims his religious practices were a factor in the case against him. "I realized the sermons I gave were in direct conflict with what the United States military practices," Lemoine said, according to Stars & Stripes. Lemoine was court-martialed in Germany for...