Melissa Moore

Jan 10, 2025 | audible.com | Fredrik Backman |Mel Robbins |Gypsy-Rose Blanchard |Melissa Moore

Save this list and find it anytime by adding it to your Library Collections. Real funny estateEven though I don’t live in a co-op, I was thoroughly entertained by Lucas, the main character, and his building drama. So many incidents mirror what I’ve heard from friends living in a co-op. Although I don’t believe I’ve ever heard of the problem being a frying pan. Someone has (gasp!) left a frying pan in the wrong place, near the recycling room. Okay, one demerit for not putting it inside, but really?

Jan 7, 2025 | wbrz.com | Melissa Moore

BATON ROUGE — Arrest warrants have been issued for three teenagers in the Dec. 14 shooting on the levee after a Baton Rouge Christmas parade. Two of the teens had spent months in jail accused of the first murder of 2024, but were apparently released after a grand jury failed to indict them. Baton Rouge Police got warrants in late December for Treyvon Collins and Eddie Monroe, both 17, and for Christopher King, 15, in the parade shooting.

Dec 4, 2024 | audible.com | Gypsy-Rose Blanchard |Melissa Moore |Michele Matrisciani |Natasha Trethewey

Personal accounts of unthinkable crimes, labyrinthine investigations, and the aftermath of justice and trauma, these listens will stay with you long after the story’s over. Though a more ethical slant on true crime has become the norm in recent years, the genre is still ripe for criticism regarding the exploitation of victims and survivors and the elevation of perpetrators to celebrity status.

Nov 16, 2024 | wbrz.com | Melissa Moore

BATON ROUGE - A man awaiting trial in a series of school bus stop attacks on girls in 2021 and 2022 has been booked with dozens of new crimes involving sexually explicit photos and videos police say he persuaded a 14-year-old girl to send him during the same time period. Hunter Shane Talley, who is 28, exchanged more than 31,000 messages with the girl between January and September of 2022, according to an arrest warrant.

Nov 2, 2024 | wbrz.com | Sarah Gray Barr |Melissa Moore

BATON ROUGE — As a combative presidential campaign season accelerates toward Election Day, some Baton Rouge religious leaders are denouncing how others are handling politics in the pulpit. Two weeks after Donnie Swaggart’s Family Worship Center sermon included inflammatory remarks criticizing Black churches that endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, his YouTube video had been viewed tens of thousands of times.