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• Search for man who took girlfriend's children

  March 27, 2013 11:19 AM

  BOSSIER CITY - Bossier Parish sheriff's deputies say a man who took off with his girlfriend's three children following a domestic dispute dropped them off at their grandmother's house. The children were not harmed. Lt. Bill Davis with the Bossier Parish Sheriff's Office said the man is not the biological... more »

• Te'o lowers his 40 time at Notre Dame pro day

  March 26, 2013 3:55 PM

  SOUTH BEND, Ind. - Manti Te'o ran a little better on his home field than he did at the NFL combine, lowering his 40-yard time by more than a tenth of a second during Notre Dame's pro day. The Heisman Trophy runner-up posted a best time of 4.69 on Tuesday,... more »

• Pistorius' lawyers appeal bail conditions

  March 11, 2013 9:50 AM

  JOHANNESBURG - Lawyers for Oscar Pistorius have filed an appeal in a South African court against bail restrictions imposed on the Olympian, who was charged with murdering his girlfriend. The lawyers argue that evidence showed that the double-amputee athlete is not a flight risk and should have the option of... more »

• South Africa: Pistorius reports to authorities

  February 25, 2013 7:41 AM

  JOHANNESBURG - A spokeswoman for Oscar Pistorius says he has reported to authorities in South Africa's capital, Pretoria, under the bail terms in the murder case against him. Lunice Johnston says the double-amputee Olympic athlete visited correctional officers, but she has not specified their location in the city. Pistorius, who... more »

• Pistorius granted bail

  February 22, 2013 8:32 AM

  PRETORIA, South Africa - Oscar Pistorius has been granted bail and will be freed from custody pending his trial in the Valentine's Day shooting death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Pistorius says the shooting was an accident, and that he thought he was firing at an intruder. Prosecutors say... more »

• Nike suspends contract with Oscar Pistorius

  February 21, 2013 7:44 AM

  PORTLAND, Ore. - Nike says it has suspended the contract of Oscar Pistorius. Pistorius, the first double-amputee runner to compete on the track at the Olympics, is facing a charge of premeditated murder in South Africa in the Valentine's Day slaying of his girlfriend. In a brief statement announcing the... more »

• Testosterone, needles found in Pistorius' bedroom

  February 20, 2013 7:16 AM

  PRETORIA, South Africa - South African police say they found two boxes of testosterone and needles in the bedroom of Oscar Pistorius, but his defense lawyer says it was an "herbal remedy" and not a banned substance. A detective made the revelation in a bail hearing Wednesday after Pistorius was... more »

• Pistorius says no intentions to kill girlfriend

  February 19, 2013 7:36 AM

  PRETORIA, South Africa - Oscar Pistorius says he shot his girlfriend to death by mistake, thinking she was a robber. The double amputee said in an affidavit read by his lawyer at his bail hearing Tuesday that he felt vulnerable because he did not have on his prosthetic legs when... more »

• Girlfriend's mom: Why did he do this?

  February 18, 2013 7:41 AM

  JOHANNESBURG - The mother of the model shot dead at Oscar Pistorius' house says the family wants answers following her Valentine's Day killing. June Steenkamp was quoted by the Times newspaper in South Africa in a front page interview Monday asking: "Why my little girl? ... Why did he do... more »

• Pistorius charged with murder of girlfriend

  February 14, 2013 7:40 AM

  PRETORIA, South Africa - Oscar Pistorius has been charged with the murder of his girlfriend after model Reeva Steenkamp was shot inside the Olympic athlete's home in South Africa. Police said a 26-year-old male would appear in court later on Thursday. Police in South Africa do not name suspects in... more »

• Man accused of burning woman with scalding water

  February 4, 2013 3:40 PM

  COVINGTON - Covington police say a 48-year-old man is accused of choking his girlfriend and severely burning her by holding her under scalding water during an argument over a set of keys, then fighting police. Terrance Silas Fritz, of Covington, is being held in the St. Tammany Parish Jail on... more »

• Te'o tells Couric 'pain' and 'sorrow' was real

  January 24, 2013 3:13 PM

  NEW YORK - Manti Te'o told Katie Couric the feelings he had for what turned out to be a fake, online girlfriend were real and reiterated he had nothing to do with the hoax. The All-American linebacker said he was truly sorrowful and pained after finding out the woman he... more »

• Te'o tells Couric he briefly lied about girlfriend

  January 23, 2013 10:24 AM

  NEW YORK - Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o has told Katie Couric that he briefly lied about his online girlfriend after discovering she didn't exist. Te'o said in an interview to air Thursday on Couric's show that he didn't lie about the hoax until December, believing Lennay Kekua had died... more »

• Notre Dame AD encouraging Te'o to speak publicly

  January 18, 2013 12:51 PM

  SOUTH BEND, Ind. - Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick says he is encouraging linebacker Manti Te'o to speak publicly about being the victim of a hoax involving a dead girlfriend who never existed. Swarbrick says he believes Te'o has to explain exactly how he was duped into an online... more »

• Fake social media profiles appear in Baton Rouge Play Video

  January 17, 2013 4:50 PM

  BATON ROUGE - Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o's fake girlfriend fiasco isn't the first time a ficticious social media profile has caused trouble, nor will it be the last. Just ask Ashley Hebert, a legislative analyst at the State Capitol and a beauty pageant queen. "I had a... more »

• Deputy fired after domestic assault arrest

  January 3, 2013 6:35 PM

  BATON ROUGE - The East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office fired a veteran detective today after they arrested him in suspicion of beating his girlfriend. EBRSO Spokesperson Casey Rayborn Hicks said deputies arrested Michael Abernathy, 35, today on the charge of domestic abuse battery. Abernathy worked at the sheriff's... more »

• Marine killer's girlfriend gets 2 years in prison

  December 18, 2012 10:45 AM

  NEW ORLEANS - The girlfriend of a Houston man accused of fatally stabbing a decorated Marine wearing his dress blues in the French Quarter has been sentenced to 26 months in prison. The Times-Picayune reports 23-year-old Helaina Amrine pleaded guilty this summer to obstruction of justice and accessory after the... more »

• BRPD: Boyfriend stabbed, killed girlfriend in argument

  December 10, 2012 12:47 PM

  BATON ROUGE - Police arrested a Baton Rouge man after they said he stabbed his girlfriend overnight. Cpl. Tommy Stubbs said police arrested Mark Turner, 48, in suspicion of killing 30-year-old Shalonda Green. Stubbs said Turner and Green were arguing inside her residence when Turner stabbed Green around... more »

• Woman slain by Chiefs player to be laid to rest

  December 6, 2012 10:29 AM

  BLUE RIDGE, Texas - The slain girlfriend of Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher will be laid to rest five days after Belcher killed her, then shot himself in the head. The funeral for 22-year-old Kasandra Perkins is scheduled for Thursday afternoon at the Ridgeview Family Fellowship Church in Blue... more »

• Family of slain girlfriend breaks their silence

  December 3, 2012 2:34 PM

  KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The family of the woman shot and killed by Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher this weekend says they are broken-hearted. Police say Belcher shot and killed his 22-year-old girlfriend, Kasandra Perkins, at their Kansas City home Saturday before driving to Arrowhead Stadium, where Belcher committed... more »

• Cops: Mass. bargain hunter took home TV, left tot

  November 23, 2012 10:42 AM

  SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - Police say a Massachusetts man left his girlfriend's 2-year-old son in a car while he went shopping for Black Friday bargains, then went home with his new 51-inch flat screen television and left the toddler behind. Police, alerted by store security, found the boy asleep in the... more »

• CIA denies it detained militants in Benghazi

  November 12, 2012 2:30 PM

  WASHINGTON - The CIA is denying an assertion made by David Petraeus' biographer and girlfriend that the agency held militants in Libya before the Sept. 11 attack. During a talk last month at the University of Denver, author Paula Broadwell said the CIA had detained people at a secret facility... more »

• Sheriff: NY man says he snapped, killed girlfriend

  October 18, 2012 12:56 PM

  ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Police say a New York man told them he "just snapped" and killed his girlfriend with his fists and a curling iron while visiting her college dorm last month. A Monroe County Sheriff's Office report released Wednesday says 21-year-old Clayton Whittemore detailed the killing to an officer... more »

• Teen accused in stabbing death of girlfriend's dad

  August 16, 2012 12:37 PM

  LAS VEGAS - A 19-year-old accused of stabbing his girlfriend's father to death in a Las Vegas home claims the girl asked him several times to kill her dad because he was abusive. Jose Martinez is charged with murder, conspiracy and burglary in the death of 45-year-old Jaime Meza Guzman,... more »

• Bret Michaels, girlfriend call off engagement

  July 30, 2012 3:13 PM

  NEW YORK - Bret Michaels and longtime girlfriend Kristi Gibson have called off their engagement. Michaels' publicist, Joanna Mignano, said in a statement Monday the couple have separated. Michaels and Gibson have dated on and off for about 18 years. They got engaged in 2010. They have two daughters, Raine... more »

• Police: Ex attacks women at son's Pa. pizza party

  July 9, 2012 12:42 PM

  MONROEVILLE, Pa. - A Pittsburgh woman has been jailed on charges she attacked her ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend and other women with a knife and a brick at a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant during a party for her son. Monroeville police say 20-year-old Lynaa Eva Dobbins attacked four female guests at... more »

• St. Gabriel shooting blamed on jealous ex Play Video

  June 19, 2012 5:10 PM

  ST. GABRIEL- Two men are in jail after police say they ambushed another pair of men at their St. Gabriel home. Police arrested Keith Johnson and Gabriel King in connection with the Monday night shooting. Investigators said the men knocked on the door and then waited in some nearby... more »

• Father, son and girlfriend arrested for carjacking, armed robbery

  June 4, 2012 3:05 PM

  A Pearl River man, along with his father and girlfriend, are under arrest after being accused in an Armed Robbery and Carjacking in St. Tammany Parish over the weekend. Slidell Police say late Friday evening, 17 year-old Jollynne Corter flagged down a car after appearing to be in distress.... more »

• NY man charged with beheading girlfriend in 1989

  March 13, 2012 12:27 PM

  NEW YORK - A man has been charged with cutting off his pregnant girlfriend's head on a New York City rooftop in 1989. Philip Ward pleaded not guilty Monday to murdering Veronica Bowen. Ward already is in prison for killing the woman who became his girlfriend after Bowen's death. Defense... more »

• Man reports date as burglar when girlfriend shows

  October 27, 2011 11:58 AM

  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Colorado Springs police say a man's girlfriend unexpectedly came home just before another woman was due to visit, so he called police to report his new acquaintance as a burglar. The Gazette reports that 24-year-old Kevin Gaylor was cited with a misdemeanor of false reporting... more »

• Police say man stabs woman, then stands in front of train

  August 7, 2011 10:09 AM

  LAFAYETTE - Authorities say a 29-year-old Duson man stabbed his girlfriend, then stood in front of an oncoming train and was killed. Kip Judice of the Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office says Gregory Redondo never tried to avoid the train. Reports say Rayne police were called to a stabbing about 11... more »

• Man accused of attempted murder after wreck, stabbing

  December 14, 2010 11:26 AM

  PIERRE PART – Authorities in Assumption Parish have accused a man of attempted murder after they said he ran a vehicle with his ex-girlfriend and another man inside off the road. 21-year-old Tal Gaudet was arrested today and booked into the parish jail in suspicion of two counts of attempted... more »

• Police: Boyfriend used iron during beating

  October 4, 2010 6:32 AM

  Ouachita Parish sheriff's deputies arrested a man over the weekend for allegedly burning his girlfriend with a clothes iron. The News-Star reports 33-year-old Allen Robinson of Monroe was booked into the Ouachita Correctional Center early Sunday morning on a charge of attempted second-degree murder. According to an arrest affidavit, deputies... more »

• Boyfriend charged in Holden woman's death

  September 8, 2010 11:14 AM

  A Holden man is charged with the murder of his girlfriend in Livingston Parish. 27-year-old Joseph Mixon is accused of shooting 42-year-old Brenda Myers to death. Deputies found Myers' body when they arrived to the house off Florida Blvd. A .38 caliber pistol was also recovered from the scene.... more »

• Woman gets house arrest in murder for hire case

  August 19, 2010 8:45 AM

  A 46-year-old Eunice woman has been sentenced to three years' house arrest after agreeing to plead no contest to charges of attempting to hire a hit man to kill her estranged husband and his new girlfriend. The judge says the victims Logan Fournerat and Lori Beth Johnson requested the home... more »

• Man gets life in Baton Rouge casino shooting

  August 13, 2010 6:30 AM

  A 38-year-old Donaldsonville man has been sentenced to life in prison for the 2006 shooting death of his girlfriend in a Belle of Baton Rouge Casino parking lot. Patrick Wilson apologized to the family of Evindra Simon shortly before he was sentenced but said the shooting was accidental. An East... more »

• Couple face charges after bank robbery

  August 6, 2010 6:46 AM

  Police say a homeless man and his pregnant girlfriend are accused of leaving her 3-year-old special-needs child alone in an Alexandria motel room while they went to commit a bank heist. The Town Talk reports police booked 36-year-old Jason Jackson, from Jefferson Parish, with armed robbery and three counts of... more »

• Traffic stop leads to arrest of attempted murder suspect

  August 5, 2010 3:14 PM

  A man confessed to setting his girlfriend’s house on fire and shooting her when police pulled him over to give him a ticket for driving recklessly earlier this week. Traffic officers stopped 51-year-old Anthony K. White in Central City near the corner of Earhart Boulevard and Magnolia Street around... more »

• St. Louis man sentenced to death in La.

  July 8, 2010 6:50 AM

  Dacarius Holliday has been formally sentenced to death for fatally beating his girlfriend's 2-year-old son in 2007. An East Baton Rouge Parish jury convicted the 33-year-old Holliday of first-degree murder in March. Three days later, the same jurors recommended that Holliday die by lethal injection for the killing of Darian... more »

• Man accused of threatening La. lawmaker

  June 30, 2010 7:13 AM

  Carencro police arrested a Breaux Bridge man after he allegedly threatened a state representative who he claimed was having an affair with his girlfriend. Police say John Wesley Snelling allegedly demanded $20,000 from state Rep. Bobby Badon of Carencro in exchange for his promise not to go public with e-mails... more »

• Ex-Feliciana official gets prison time

  June 29, 2010 6:26 AM

  A former East Feliciana Parish police juror accused of hitting a former girlfriend with a small board and his fist has been sentenced to one year in prison. State District Judge Tony Marabella immediately remanded Chris Ferguson Sr. Monday to the custody of the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office... more »

• Natchitoches man arrested in girlfriend's death

  June 24, 2010 6:41 AM

  Police say a 35-year-old Natchitoches woman was found dead from a gunshot wound early Wednesday morning. Rodney Barnes has been booked with second-degree murder in the death of his girlfriend, Chackawanda Moore Beard. Police say an argument between the two escalated, and Barnes allegedly pulled out a gun and shot... more »

• Lesbian teen sues school over prom flap

  March 11, 2010 5:34 PM

  The American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi is suing to force a school district to host a prom it canceled after a lesbian student asked to bring her girlfriend and wear a tuxedo. The federal lawsuit was filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Oxford on behalf of 18-year-old Constance... more »

• West Monroe man convicted of arson

  February 11, 2010 8:33 AM

  A Ouachita Parish jury convicts a 38-year-old West Monroe man of burning down an apartment building after his girlfriend threw him out. Jurors took two hours Wednesday to find Charles Lindsey guilty of aggravated arson and unauthorized entry of an inhabited dwelling. Nobody was hurt in the fire Aug. 22,... more »

• Man gets 40 years in girlfriend's death

  February 3, 2010 7:25 AM

  A 57-year-old Lafayette man has pleaded guilty to a manslaughter charge after setting his girlfriend on fire in August 2007. Wilbert Clark Jr. was sentenced to 40-years in prison for the death of Sandra Anderson, whom he set on fire at the couple's home. Attorneys for Clark say he poured... more »