What does This Mean?

Could this have been another Jim Jones scene?

Authorities searching the compound of a polygamist sect in West Texas found a "cyanide poisoning document" among the dozens of items it seized during a weeklong search.

Feds Indict Derrick Shepherd

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A federal grand jury indicted state Sen. Derrick Shepherd today after months investigating allegations that the Marrero Democrat laundered $141,000 for an unlicensed bond broker.

From his Poydras Street office, U.S. Attorney Jim Letten announced the 41-count indictment on charges of conspiracy to commit mail wire fraud, mail fraud, wire fraud, participation in the business of insurance by a person previously convicted of a felony involving dishonesty, conspiracy to commit money laundering and money laundering.

Mose Jefferson Pleads Innocent

Mose Jefferson has decided to live in la la land like his brother Dollar Bill Jefferson by pleading innocent to the charges against him. Mose is also a career criminal who has previously committed some despicable crimes.

It seems that the entire Jefferson clan are a bunch of low lives with ice water running through their veins.

I Can't Wait till I get Back Home To New Orleans

Houston scares the hell out of me.

A Houston-based company has taken out ads in newspapers and distributed fliers to Hispanic businesses in Omaha, Grand Island and Lincoln, offering so-called international licenses and state ID cards for about $200.

When you think things couldn't get any worse, they usually do

How much more can this City take?

In a foreshadowing of the post-Katrina reality, a representative of the Holy Cross fathers told parishioners of Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish during a somber meeting Saturday that his religious order must leave the Mid-City parish it founded 129 years ago because it no longer has the priests to staff it.

Without staffing from the Holy Cross congregation, Sacred Heart would have to be supported by a dwindling number of diocesan priests. Parishioners took the news as a strong sign that a second blow is about to fall -- that Sacred Heart, where jazz legend Louis Armstrong was baptized in 1901, might be closed in the archdiocesan reorganization

I am already depressed right now. I do not need any more bad news.