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In Focus: Five New Orleans officers convicted of cover-up
The mother of 17-year-old James Brissette, one of the people killed on the bridge, said she was relieved by the verdict after "a long, hard six years." His mother, Sherrel Johnson, said she would now try to move on but lamented what her son would miss
Updated: 08/06/2011 12:18A
WBOC-TV 16, Delmarvas News Leader, FOX 21 - Current, ex-NO officers convicted
Prosecutors said police had no justification for shooting unarmed, defenseless people trying to cross the bridge in search of food and help mere days after Katrina struck. Defense attorneys argued, however, that police were shot at on the bridge before
Updated: 08/06/2011 12:11A
Jury convicts five New Orleans police officers in Katrina shootings
Shaun Clarke, a defense attorney and former federal prosecutor who moved from New Orleans to Houston after Katrina, said the verdicts are "critically important" to the Justice Department's reform efforts. "It's a huge verdict for the government," he
Updated: 08/06/2011 12:08A
Sect leader Warren Jeffs convicted of child sex abuse
The head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints stood stone-faced as the verdict was read. Jeffs, who acted as his own attorney, stood mostly mute for his closing argument, staring at the floor, for all but a few seconds of
Updated: 08/06/2011 12:07A
Jurors convict 5 in post-Katrina shootings
Shaun Clarke, a defense attorney and former federal prosecutor who moved from New Orleans to Houston after Katrina, said the verdicts are "critically important" to the Justice Department's reform efforts. "It's a huge verdict for the government," he
Updated: 08/06/2011 12:05A
Mary Young: Verdict mixed on Roseboro book
I'm addicted to true crime stories, whether they're on television or in print. The crime story is even more interesting when it happens in a nearby, familiar place. And you've seen the author, M. William Phelps, on one of your favorite true crime shows
Updated: 08/06/2011 12:05A
I want to live forever
The coroner may have recorded his verdict but the jury's still out, and will be for some time, on whether or not Ettinger's actually had his immortality ambitions quashed. The physics teacher and sci-fi writer who pioneered the notion of life after
Updated: 08/06/2011 12:05A
Current, ex-N.O. officers convicted in shootings
The case was a high-stakes test of the Justice Department's effort to rid the police department of corruption and brutality. A total of 20 current or former New Orleans police officers were charged last year in a series of federal probes.
Updated: 08/06/2011 12:05A
Current, ex-NO officers convicted in shootings
The case was a high-stakes test of the Justice Department's effort to rid the police department of corruption and brutality. A total of 20 current or former New Orleans police officers were charged last year in a series of federal probes.
Updated: 08/06/2011 12:00A
Roche hopes Rovers can catch Partizancold in Euro clash
That was the verdict from the Shamrock Rovers camp after they drew Partizan Belgrade in the final round of Europa League qualifying. The Hoops were parachuted into the play-off stage of Europe's second competition after their Champions League exit to
Updated: 08/05/2011 11:59P
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