A retired Roman Catholic priest accused of raping and kidnapping a young boy nearly 50 years ago entered a guilty plea on Tuesday, just before jury selection for his criminal trial was set to get ...

Lawrence Hecker, the geriatric former priest accused of sexually assaulting a teenage boy nearly 50 years ago, pleaded guilty as charged Tuesday, abruptly ending a case boondoggled for months by ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Former New Orleans Catholic priest Lawrence Hecker ... the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. Hecker pleaded guilty Dec. 3 to first-degree rape, aggravated kidnapping ...

As the nation continues to grapple with the opioid epidemic, the DEA is making strives to get prescription drugs out of the wrong hands. That's why Saturday, April 26 is National Prescription Drug ...

A former Catholic priest who sexually abused children in Nunavut has pleaded guilty to all of the charges against him. Eric Dejaeger, 77, entered his guilty pleas in an Iqaluit courtroom ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) -A disgraced 93-year-old New Orleans priest pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges ... READ MORE Trial of former New Orleans priest Lawrence Hecker delayed amid judge recusal ...

A disgraced 93-year-old New Orleans priest pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges involving the sexual assault of a teenage boy in 1975. Lawrence Hecker, who left the ministry in 2002, had been ...