In Louisiana, an 11-member board oversees the public defense system, allocating funds to various districts, selecting chief public defenders and bankrolling capital defense. State lawmakers formed the ...

A major change of command is underway today. Air Force Lt. Gen. Henry Obering, who headed the Missile Defense Agency since 2004, is passing the baton to his successor, Army Lt. Gen. Patrick O'Reilly.

A 4-year-old lawsuit that claims Louisiana's struggling public defense system does not provide adequate representation to poor clients has been stripped of its class-action status by a Baton Rouge ...

Two LSU football players involved in a fatal shooting Saturday in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, were the victims of an attempted robbery who acted in self-defense by shooting the man who was allegedly ...

Kane Wommack laughs in the face of heat. Humidity too. That became clear his first go round in fall camp as Alabama football defensive coordinator, wearing a sweatshirt for hot August practices.

The Ministry of Defense has codified and allowed domestically produced BATON unmanned aerial systems to be used in units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine. This is indicated in a statement by the ...

MANILA, Philippines — President Rodrigo Duterte wants police officers to use batons again as their “first line of defense” to prevent them from drawing their guns when suspects resist arrest. He has ...

A prosecutor is complaining that a local lawyer who now represents a Baton Rouge woman accused in the 2015 poisoning death of her boyfriend used a typically mundane court filing to unnecessarily ...