Moreauville man charged with 'hate crime' in row with neighbor
A man who allegedly struck a juvenile girl while uttering racial slurs was charged with battery and "hate crimes," the Avoyelles Parish Sheriff's Office reported.
A man who allegedly struck a juvenile girl while uttering racial slurs was charged with battery and "hate crimes," the Avoyelles Parish Sheriff's Office reported.
Shots fired at Marksville's D.A. Jordan Recreation Complex on Martin Luther King Drive forced spectators to take cover. There were no injuries in the Wednesday night incident.
For almost 44 years, the case of Vincent Simmons has periodically surfaced with claims of racism and injustice and counter-claims that justice -- even in 1977 rural Louisiana -- was and still is
A suspect in a triple-shooting incident in Chicago was arrested in Mansura by by Avoyelles Parish Sheriff's detectives Monday.
A potential suicide was averted Monday (March 8) when Marksville police and Avoyelles Parish Sheriff's Office personnel prevented a despondent Marksville man from turning a shotgun on himself.