The body cam video has been released of the police shooting that left a 6-year-old autistic boy dead in Marksville last November. The graphic video shows deputy city marshal Derrick Stafford firing into a vehicle, where Jeremy Mardis was fatally struck. Legal analyst Tim Meche…
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Prosecutors showed the tap in court yesterday to show that Stafford had a history of using excessive force.

Once again, Louisiana has the highest murder rate in the country based on FBI data. Criminologist Doctor Peter Scharf with the LSU School of Public Health says the state’s high incarceration rate is partly to blame…
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Louisiana has had the highest murder rate in the US since 1989.

State Police has sent a hazmat unit to Camp Minden in Webster Parish after receiving numerous phone calls about a possible explosion. Shortly after 5 AM, several reports started coming in about a bright light in the sky. The last time something like this occurred, millions of pounds of M-6 propellent was found improperly stored at Camp Minden.

A Bossier Parish School Board committee has decided not to let MTV film a TV show at two of their schools. School Board member Dennis Bamburg says Barcroft Productions wanted to film three students, because they have chosen to practice abstinence….
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Barcroft has produced shows like Young, Trans and In Love, Inside the Ku Klux Klan, and Body Bizarre.