FRANKLINTON—An 18-year-old Washington Parish man faces life in prison for aggravated rape and up to 50 more years for attempted aggravated rape in incidents involving three girls, who were ages 10, 7, and 5 when the abuse was discovered. The defendant, Bradley...
VARNADO—Fifty years after the murder of Washington Parish’s first African American sheriff’s deputy, his friends, family and other members of the community came together Sunday (June 7) to celebrate his life. The afternoon service at New Zion Missionary Baptist Church...
COVINGTON—A 39-year-old Pearl River man faces 25 to 99 years in prison after his conviction last Thursday (June 4) of sexual battery for molesting a 6-year-old girl. The defendant, Joshua D. Liner, is set for sentencing on June 22. Assistant District Attorney Julie...
FRANKLINTON—A Washington Parish jury on Wednesday convicted a 32-year-old New Orleans man of battery of a corrections facility officer for an incident that occurred last December in an Angie jail. The defendant, TwDarryl Toney, 32, of New Orleans, faces 3 1/3 years to...
COVINGTON—A St. Tammany Parish jury rejected a Slidell man’s claims that he was a confidential informant for the federal Drug Enforcement Administration and found him guilty Thursday (June 4) of two counts of distribution of cocaine, possession with the intent to...
