New Orleans Elects Ex-Convict Calvin Duncan as Criminal Court Clerk

Mr. Duncan was elected clerk of the criminal court in New Orleans on Saturday, ousting an incumbent who claimed Mr. Duncan had never been cleared of the murder that sent him to prison.

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Derrick Groves, Last of 10 New Orleans Escapees, Is Captured in Atlanta

Derrick Groves, a convicted murderer who escaped with nine other inmates in May, was taken into custody after a brief standoff with the police.

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New Orleans Jail Employee Is Arrested and Charged With Helping 10 Inmates Escape

A maintenance worker shut off water at the jail, allowing the inmates to remove a toilet and sink fixture from a cell wall, according to the Louisiana attorney general’s office.

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Woman Charged in Telemundo Reporter’s Murder Gets 25 Years in Another Case

Danette Colbert, who is awaiting trial in the death of Adan Manzano before the Super Bowl, had her probation revoked in a 2021 case under Louisiana’s repeat offender law.

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Long Before She Was Charged With Murder, a Group of Men Had Raised an Alarm

“I told the judge, I told the D.A., that she was going to kill somebody,” said David Butler, one of several men who said they had been drugged and defrauded by the same woman in New Orleans.

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Woman Charged With Murder in Telemundo Reporter’s Death

Adan Manzano, 27, was in New Orleans to cover the Super Bowl when his body was found in his hotel room.

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Bollards Protecting Bourbon Street Were Under Construction

The bollards that prevent traffic from entering some streets in the French Quarter, where a man drove a truck into crowds of people, were being replaced, according to a city website.

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