N.O. murder rate climbs as NOPD overhaul begins

(Special to the AP from The Washington Post) — Late in July, six people were murdered in 24 hours in New Orleans. Five days later

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N.O. blindsided by Johnson indictment

The Louisiana Weekly Staff Reports District E City Council-man Jon Johnson, a New Orleans businessman and former state legislator, became the latest public official snarled

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Profiling Blacks, excessive force: From Rodney King to Trayvon Martin
By Sylvester Monroe Contributing Writer LOS ANGELES (Special to the Trice Edney News Wire from America’s Wire) —Rodney Glen King’s apparent accidental death at age 47 has prompted a flood of media ... Time to revive NCR Commission
By Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist Prosecutors in the Trayvon Martin case — Trayvon was the young African American shot to death on the streets in Sanford, Fla., by a ... Allen family says he was shot in the back by police; Community leaders hold a ‘prayer walk’ as NOPD re-enacts shooting of Wendell Allen
By Edmund W. Lewis The Louisiana Weekly Editor instant loans bad credit rating The family of an unarmed 20-year-old who was gunned down last month while standing shirtless on a staircase ... Contractor accused in kickback deal is set to plead guilty
The Lens personal loan places open on saturday As expected, a one-time city contractor facing federal charges in a Nagin-era kickback scheme is cooperating with investigators and is set to ... Another post-Katrina police verdict
One cop guilty, one acquitted of lying about post-Katrina shooting A federal jury on this past Friday convicted one New Orleans police officer of lying about circumstances of a fatal shooting ... Mother of Danziger victim still seeking justice
By Edmund W. Lewis The Louisiana Weekly Editor Sherell Johnson would like nothing more than to bury her murdered son, James Brissette Jr., and give him a final resting place. But for now ... Verdicts released in Danziger Trial
A federal jury has reached a verdict in the trial of five police officers charged in the shooting deaths of civilians on the Danziger Bridge in New Orleans in the ... Juror dismissed from Danziger trial
The Louisiana Weekly Staff Reports One of the jurors hearing the case against five current or former police officers charged in the deadly shootings on the Danziger Bridge after Hurricane Katrina ...
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