NOPD Officer In Hot Water

Police officer booked with battery is focus of wide-ranging investigation
by The Times-Picayune
Wednesday August 26, 2009, 5:59 PM

The New Orleans Police Department released additional details Wednesday about a sprawling criminal investigation into a recently arrested police officer. KEEP READING

Body Found Saturday In Abandoned Tavern In Algiers

Despite suspicions, no signs of violence

Monday, August 03, 2009
By Ramon Antonio Vargas
Staff writer

City officials now know a body found inside an abandoned tavern Saturday belonged to Travis Price, an Algiers man who disappeared July 28.

New Orleans Police Department investigators suspect foul play in the 26-year-old's death. However, a preliminary autopsy showed he wasn't a victim of violence, Orleans Parish coroner's Chief Investigator John Gagliano said Sunday, seemingly complicating an already puzzling set of circumstances. Keep Reading