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2 weeks ago | wbrz.com | Adam Burruss |David Hamilton

inNewsSource: WBRZBAKER - The Baker Police Department arrested four people who they believe rode their horses through a Baker Walmart on Tuesday night. Video posted to social media showed four people on horses riding through the Walmart in Baker. On Thursday, the horse riders were arrested after Mason Webb and a juvenile turned themselves in to the police. By Friday morning, all four horse riders turned themselves in to police and faced the same charges.

2 weeks ago | wbrz.com | Adam Burruss |David Hamilton

inNewsSource: WBRZBAKER - The Baker Police Department arrested two people who they believe rode their horses through a Baker Walmart on Tuesday night. Video posted to social media showed four people on horses riding through the Walmart in Baker. On Thursday, the horse riders were arrested after Mason Webb and a juvenile turned themselves in to the police. Webb, one of the riders, said there was no particular reason for them to go through Walmart and they just chose to do it one night.

1 month ago | wbrz.com | Kelly Kissel |David Hamilton

NEW ORLEANS — Both the Supreme Court of the United States and the Louisiana Supreme Court on Tuesday denied stay requests for a condemned prisoner who wants a chance to demonstrate that making him breathe in nitrogen gas as he silently meditates would violate his constitutional rights. The U.S. Supreme Court later denied Jessie Hoffman's eleventh hour appeal for a stay of execution and consideration of his religious practice claims.

1 month ago | wbrz.com | Kelly Kissel |David Hamilton

NEW ORLEANS — The Louisiana Supreme Court has denied a stay request for a condemned prisoner just hours before his scheduled execution at the state penitentiary in Angola. In an unsigned 5-2 decision, the justices denied a stay for Jessie Hoffman, who is scheduled to die Tuesday night by nitrogen hypoxia. Hoffman says his execution could be torturous. Justice Jay McCallum wrote in a concurring opinion that the Constitution does not require that all executions be pain-free.

1 month ago | wbrz.com | David Hamilton |Adam Burruss

Scotlandville High School plans memorial presentation Friday honoring 17-year-old killed in shootingBATON ROUGE - Scotlandville High School plans to hold a memorial presentation at the school Friday in honor of a 17-year-old students shot and killed Monday afternoon. Anthony Robinson was was killed by an unnamed 16-year-old after being shot at the Village Green Apartments on Bradfield Avenue near Scotland Avenue after getting off the school bus.