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Wooton defeated Jiff Hingle in the 1983 election for Plaquemines Parish sheriff. [2] Wooton held the office for two terms. [1] He was defeated by Hingle in 1991 and 1995. [3] Wooton was elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives in 1999, [1] and served his first terms in the state legislature as a member of the Democratic Party.
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in Louisiana.. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 348 law enforcement agencies employing 18,050 sworn police officers, about 405 for each 100,000 residents.
Plaquemines Parish (/ ˈ p l æ k ɪ m ɪ n z / PLAK-im-inz; French: Paroisse de Plaquemine; Louisiana French: Paroisse des Plaquemines; Spanish: Parroquia de Plaquemines) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. With a population of 23,515 at the 2020 census, [1] the parish seat is Pointe à la Hache and the largest community is ...
Though the case received national coverage and over 300 parents of missing sons contacted the Plaquemines Parish Sheriff's office, a four-month effort to identify the body failed. [27] [28] He was buried in Gretna, Louisiana [29] and remains unidentified as of 2024. [30] [31]
Two people are dead and a third is critically injured following a crash that happened in Lafourche Parish on Thursday night, Nov. 28. ... was reportedly heading south at high speeds on La. Highway ...
La Balize, Louisiana was a French fort and settlement near the mouth of the Mississippi River, in what later became Plaquemines Parish. The village's name (also spelled La Balise) meant "seamark." La Balize was historically and economically important for overseeing the river. It was rebuilt several times because of hurricane damage. [1]
Sep. 12—VALDOSTA — A Lowndes County traffic stop in August led to the arrest of a deported felon from the Bahamas indicted for the deaths of 17 Haitian migrants and an unborn child, the ...
The cause of the crash is currently being investigated by the Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office. This article originally appeared on Shreveport Times: USPS mail truck damaged after collision in Caddo ...