SHREVEPORT - A Bossier City bookkeeper has been arrested for stealing $100,000 from her employer. Caddo Parish Sheriff Steve Prator tells The Times that 48-year-old Theresa Robinson was arrested Thursday for theft after her employer, Bailey Bark Materials, conducted an audit of company funds that allegedly linked Robinson to the... more »
A New Orleans woman who was a bookkeeper for a nonprofit agency that had a contract with the Army has pleaded guilty to federal charges of embezzlement of over $1 million. Abigail John admitted that she embezzled over $1 million of federal program funds by depositing fraudulent company checks into... more »
A Louisiana woman has pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $1.5 million from a Baton Rouge construction company. Federal prosecutors say 71-year-old Faye Germany Laurent, of Prairieville, faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine following her guilty plea to making, uttering and possessing forged securities. Laurent... more »
BATON ROUGE- The Louisiana attorney general's office says a special grand jury has been selected to look into possible criminal activity involving the award of... more »
BATON ROUGE - This weekend is Louisiana's annual Hurricane Preparedness Sales Tax Holiday.
Starting Saturday and ending this Sunday, you won't have to pay... more »
BATON ROUGE - Louisiana's Republican Party is blasting the legislative auditor's office after both the GOP and the state Democratic Party were asked to turn... more »