Details in case of a former coach at St. Thomas More in Lafayette, Louisiana were released after his guilty plea to a charge of sex crime involving a juvenile.
Lafayette Police Chief Judith Estorge issued a written and video message about how she plans to tackle violent crime, especially after a record year for murder.
A distraught and injured woman stumbled into a pharmacy in Vidalia, Louisiana, on December 1 looking for assistance asking for help. She told authorities had been kidnapped and beaten.
A man wanted for the statutory rape of a child in North Carolina faked his own death in a "kayaking accident" in Louisiana before being arrested in Georgia.