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One of six inmates still at-large after a New Orleans jailbreak last week has been captured, and a jail worker who allegedly helped the inmates escape has been arrested, the Louisiana attorney general's office announced Tuesday. Sterling Williams, 33, an Orleans Parish jail maintenance worker, was arrested after admitting to helping the 10 inmates escape Friday. He is charged with 10 counts of principal to simple escape and one count of malfeasance in office. Williams said he turned off the water to the cell from which the inmates escaped, allowing them to dismantle a toilet and flee. Williams said one...

A prosecutor from Orleans Parish, specializing in sexual assault cases, tragically took his own life inside the District Attorney's office building. Assistant District Attorney Ian Kersting, aged 34, was discovered on Saturday around 9 p. m. with a suspected self-inflicted gunshot wound within the DA's office ...

Orleans Parish was deemed the most-murderous county in the United States, based on a study of per-capita homicide rates spanning most of the past decade. The ignominious honor was bestowed upon New Orleans in a report posted on law enforcement website PoliceOne.com, which looked at nationwide data from the seven-year period between 2009-15. The study determined New Orleans' rate of 43 homicides per 100,000 people was the highest of any county, independent city or district during the sampled period, exceeding the rates recorded in such murder hotspots as Chicago's Cook County, Baltimore, St. Louis and Washington D.C., among others. Chicago,...

The 22-year-old man killed early Thursday in a police shootout was wounded 14 times, with 12 of the bullets hitting him in the back of his body, Orleans Parish Coroner Frank Minyard said.After releasing a terse statement about the shooting Thursday morning, New Orleans police officials ducked questions about the shootout Friday. Meanwhile, the family of Adolph Grimes III, a Brother Martin High School graduate, demanded a thorough criminal investigation, including a federal inquiry and an independent autopsy.Minyard said Friday evening that Grimes died after suffering 14 bullet wounds. Two bullets hit him in the front torso, and 12 struck...

1) Why Didn't Louisiana Follow it's Emergency Plan? Why isn't anyone talking about this? 2) Why hasn't anyone mentioned that a Pre-Requisite for a Federal Response BY LAW is that State Law is Executed and the Emergency Plan is Executed FIRST? 3) Why did the Governor abandon the City of New Orleans for the Safety of Baton Rouge, before the Plan was Executed? 4) Why, when the federal Government was acting in accordance with the Stafford Act, did the State of Louisiana, by its Governors acts, delay making requests when being told this storm was going to hit? 5) Why...

Ex-con brings ballot box behind bars Parish Prison drive signs up 700 voters Tuesday, September 07, 2004 By Michael Perlstein Staff writer When Norris Henderson and his entourage walked into Orleans Parish Prison last month with a box of voter registration applications, the response from inmates was hardly welcoming. "You trying to run some kind of game on us?" "Everybody knows inmates can't vote." "I ain't messing with that." The wall of skepticism began crumbling when Henderson revealed that he, and most members of his group, were former prison inmates determined to unleash the power of a virtually forgotten voting...

<p>Posted on November 11, 2003 After polling registrars of voters around the state, Secretary of State Fox McKeithen has estimated that 45 percent of the state's electors will bother to vote in the Nov. 15 election.</p> <p>McKeithen said his projections are based on registrars' reports on the strength of last week's absentee voting. McKeithen predicted a 65 percent turnout in the Oct. 4 primary, but only about 50 percent of the voters trekked to the polls.</p>

Monitor the polls! Check the count! We certainly know the DEMOCRATS are serious about vote fraud. (See below.)   The GOP had better get very serious very soon. There is no greater threat to its power. There is no greater threat to our freedoms.     For aliens to obtain citizenship, federal regulations require that their application be accompanied by a complete set of fingerprints...to determine if the applicant has a criminal or arrest record...It was in this area that Mr. Gore's pressure caused the biggest breakdown...   In the end, the White House got their one million voters...