By John Simerman | NOLA.com | June 6, 2022 Oris Buckner III, a former New Orleans Police Department officer who broke ranks in the early 1980’s to help convict three other detectives for brutalizing residents in the notorious “Algiers 7” civil rights case, died Wednesday in Houston, where he lived. He was 70. Buckner, who…
By Ken Daley | WVUE | June 6, 2022 NEW ORLEANS – A person was found slain Monday morning (June 6) in a far eastern section of New Orleans, police said. The NOPD offered scant details of the killing, declining to reveal the victim’s identity, age or gender in an initial public bulletin. The department…
By Louisiana Weekly | June 6, 2022 The heart-wrenching murder of Mrs. Augustine Greenwood, 80, in Xavier University’s Convocation Center parking lot last Tuesday is the last damn straw! The mother of six and grandmother to 15 was there to witness her grandson, Corey Lashley Jr., graduate from Morris Jeff High School. They walked to…