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• Death penalty off table in triple-homicide case

  July 11, 2013 9:01 AM

  BATON ROUGE - A state prosecutor has dropped plans to seek the death penalty against a man accused in the 2011 shooting deaths of his former girlfriend and two other women because of his mental disability. Assistant District Attorney Dana Cummings says doctors chosen by the defense and prosecution... more »

• Judge: 911 calls can be used in murder trial

  February 27, 2013 9:37 AM

  BATON ROUGE - A judge has ruled that a jury will be allowed to hear a series of 911 calls made by a young woman less than three weeks before her ex-boyfriend allegedly shot her and two other women to death. In the recorded calls, which were played during a... more »