Louisiana State Police have opened a criminal investigation into efforts by McClenny Moseley & Associates and Apex Roofing to solicit customers after receiving a complaint by the state Insurance Department about “suspected fraudulent actions” related to insurance claims. An initial …
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Crews worked into Tuesday morning clearing the wreckage of more than 150 vehicles involved in a series of crashes the day before on Interstate 55 near New Orleans caused by a “superfog” of marsh fire smoke …
Louisiana State Police arrested a Texas public adjuster for allegedly pocketing $592,000 from settlement checks that were intended for seven former clients by forging the homeowners’ signatures. Andrew Joseph Mitchell, 43, voluntarily surrendered to state police at the St. Charles …
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The FBI has opened a widening investigation into sex abuse in the Roman Catholic Church in New Orleans going back decades, a rare federal foray into such cases looking specifically at whether priests took children across …
A dozen people were injured Friday in a wreck during a Halloween hayride. Louisiana State Police a Mazda CX-6 SUV ran into the back of a trailer being used in the hayride along La. 1024 in Livingston Parish. The trailer, …
Louisiana State Police say the option of ordering crash photographs through its website is now available to the public. The agency says such photos are available online at www.lsp.org . Once on the website, visitors should click on the LSP …
United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley in Louisiana announced that one Texas man has been sentenced and another has pleaded guilty in a scheme to steal tractors and other large equipment and sell the items in Louisiana Vincent L. Simmons, …
Detectives with the Louisiana State Police Insurance Fraud Unit have broken up a criminal staged crash ring with the arrest of eight people. In February 2012, Lafayette Field Office Insurance Fraud Detectives received information from the Louisiana Department of Insurance …
Louisiana State Police reported that two investigations are under way of former State Fire Marshal H. “Butch” Browning. While authorities were tightlipped about the allegations, a watchdog group said the complaints involved possible fraud or mismanagement of funds. Browning, who …
State police have arrested four people for allegedly staging traffic accidents in Ouachita Parish, La. Detectives tell The News-Star they looked into six of 20 crashes where individuals filed false bodily injury claims. Trooper says the insurance companies in two …