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  • Deputies arrest trio in Greensburg beating death

    March 4, 2010 7:19 AM

    Three men were arrested by the St. Helena Parish Sheriff's Office in connection with the slaying of a Greensburg man, who was found in a ditch Tuesday morning. Deputies say a passing truck driver spotted the body of Roy Lee Patterson lying in a ditch in the Pine Grove area.... more »
  • Slidell man pleads guilty in drug death

    March 2, 2010 7:58 AM

    A 28-year-old Slidell man, has admitted to giving an 18-year-old the methadone and benzodiazepine, a class of drugs that includes Xanax and Valium, that led to his death. Paul Leonard Burkholder pleaded guilty in the second-degree murder of Nicholas Piro. Burkholder was sentenced to 30 years in prison. Piro was... more »
  • Man indicted in killing ex-girlfriend

    November 20, 2009 6:53 AM

    A 27-year-old Baton Rouge man has been indicted in the Sept. 4 stabbing death of his former girlfriend at an assisted living facility where she worked. Fredrick Jermaine Taylor is charged with second-degree murder in the killing of 27-year-old Allison Vallien in the cafeteria at The Haven at Windermere. Vallien... more »
  • Gonzales man gets life in slaying

    November 18, 2009 6:21 AM

    A state judge has sentenced an Ascension Parish man to serve a mandatory life prison sentence for his role in a drug-related slaying nearly two years ago. Twenty-eight-year-old Arthur Nicholas III of Gonzales was convicted in September on a charge of second-degree murder in the December 2007 fatal shooting of... more »

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