Friday marked the sad, inevitable end of LaToya Cantrell's political journey.
Faimon Roberts
GREENSBURG — On Monday, 16-year-old Christopher Williams stood in a wood-paneled St. Helena courtroom and pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.
Right now, Baton Rouge is a two-coach town.
Spreading across a low hill a few miles west of Leesville is a small country graveyard next to a little red brick church. Nestled among the roughly 1,400 burial plots there, near the top of the hill, is a simple granite marker, set flush in the ground. The two words engraved on it are maddeningly cryptic: "Unknown Negro."
There are so many questions still lingering after the arrests of several central Louisiana police chiefs and others in what prosecutors allege was a brazen and clever scheme to defraud the U.S. immigration system.
Last week, the U.S. Army did a good thing. But it just made a bad thing look even worse.
Buried deep in the thousands of pages of one court case, a single line of a few simple words lays bare what can happen when bad actors apparently run amok in the American health system.
The old quip about most St. Tammany residents is that they move across the Causeway and then want to blow it up behind them.