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Lil Wayne saved by alert off-duty cop by Ramon Antonio Vargas, The Times-Picayune

Thursday April 09, 2009, 8:35 PM



CHRIS GRANGER / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE

Robert Hoobler, a former New Orleans Police officer, stands in front of the apartment where Grammy-winning musician Lil' Wayne once lived in the Hollygrove area of New Orleans. It is the same home where Hoobler carried out a bloodied Lil'… Continue

by Brendan McCarthy and Laura Maggi, The Times-Picayune

Friday January 02, 2009, 9:02 PM

The 22-year-old man killed early Thursday in a police shootout was wounded 14 times, with 12 of the bullets hitting him in the back of his body, Orleans Parish Coroner Frank Minyard said.



After releasing a terse statement about the shooting Thursday morning, New Orleans police officials ducked questions about the shootout Friday. Meanwhile, the family of Adolph Grimes III, a Brother… Continue

New Orleans police said Saturday that a dispute about $4,000 in child support payments prompted a 22-year-old man to kill his 2-year-old son, dump his body in a playground and concoct an elaborate story about the boy's abduction.

Detectives escorted Danny Platt, 22, into jail Saturday evening and booked him with first-degree murder in the death of his son, Ja'Shawn Powell, less than 24… Continue