A Kenner man who allegedly fired at a friend after a brawl at a local nightclub was arrested Tuesday for attempted murder, authorities said.

Baton Rouge - The defense team for Razzoo bouncer Clay Montz rested at 2 p.m. today, after arguing that the death of college student Levon Jones, 26, outside the Bourbon Street club in 2004, wasn't caused by the doormen who restrained him.

A 19-year-old New Orleans man was fatally shot around noon today at the intersection of Gov. Nicholls and North Roman streets in the Sixth Ward.

A Chalmette man has been booked with a variety of drug and firearm offenses, the St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Office said.

Terry Songy, the first major player to turn state's evidence in the biggest City Hall scandal in decades, was sentenced to six months in prison by U.S. District Judge Sarah Vance Wednesday morning.

He was the last key figure in the scheme to be sentenced.

SUSAN POAG/THE TIMES-PICAYUNETerry Songy, a project manager for Johnson Controls Inc., who was a central figure in a scheme to skim hundreds of thousands of dollars from an $81 million energy efficiency contract let during former Mayor Marc Morial's administration, leaves the Hale Boggs Federal Building in New Orleans Wednesday, August 20, 2008. He was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Sarah Vance to six months and $70,000 restitution. Songy cooperated as a government witness in the case.

The attempted armed robbery initially played out like countless others that take place in the city: The robber pulled a gun on some workers and demanded money.

But in the case of William Nguyen, the gun wasn't real.

Terry Songy, the last key player in the city's Johnson Controls scandal, is scheduled to be sentenced today at 9:30 a.m. in federal court.

Gunfire in the Iberville housing development took the life of a 39-year-old New Orleans man lured out of his home late Tuesday night, according to the New Orleans Police Department.

Three people were arrested after local and federal investigators discovered $14,000 in counterfeit bills and 14 grams of heroin inside an apartment in Slidell, authorities announced Tuesday.

Three people were arrested after local and federal investigators discovered $14,000 in counterfeit bills and 14 grams of heroin inside an apartment in Slidell, authorities announced Tuesday.

Clay Montz, 35, of Metairie, is charged with manslaughter in the death of Jones, 26, who died after arguing with bouncers who barred his friends from Razzoo Bar & Patio over their clothing.

Baton Rouge - Levon Jones, the Georgia college student who died after a clash with Bourbon Street bouncers on New Year's Eve 2004, was killed by the doormen who restrained him, a pathologist told a jury today.

A 23-year-old man's attempt to show his girlfriend a pistol ended in tragedy Monday night when the gun fired, killing her, according to the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office.

New Orleans police are investigating an incident Monday night in which a marked police car crashed into a building in Central City, police said.

AMITE -- Jury selection begins today in the sex-abuse trial of a one-time pastor at a now-defunct Ponchatoula church, eight months after another church member was convicted of rape.

Mandeville Police interrupted a trio attempting to break into an ATM with a welding torch early Saturday, authorities said.

The second of four Bourbon Street bouncers accused of killing a Georgia college student on New Year's Eve 2004 is scheduled for trial today in Baton Rouge.

A 30-year-old man's Sunday morning decision to break into his estranged girlfriend's Metairie apartment and attack her turned out to be deadly, the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office said.

MICHAEL DeMOCKER / THE TIMES-PICAYUNENew Orleans Police and family members try to catch a woman as she faints after she after seeing the body of a man shot to death on North Roman Street Saturday afternoon. Bystanders said she had just had the victim's baby.

Three men were shot to death in the span of two hours this afternoon in two separate incidents in New Orleans.

The John Ehret High School teacher who was brutally murdered in his Gretna home Friday was killed by a homeless man whom he had housed, clothed and fed, police said.

A Metairie man just off probation for holding up five banks is now charged with robbing five more.

New Orleans police investigators blame a 24-year-old arrested Thursday night for taking part in an Aug. 7 shooting in Mid-City that left a 2-year-old girl wounded, according to a department spokeswoman.

A Metairie mother who led authorities on a wild chase through East Jefferson -- speeding against traffic down Airline Drive and West Metairie Avenue, slamming into three vehicles and threatening the life of her toddler son -- told authorities she was suffering from post-partum depression, according to arrest reports.

John McCusker/The Times-PicayuneA woman wrecked this car to end a police chase on Airline Drive in Kenner.

Medical examiners today identified a 39-year-old allegedly stabbed to death in an Algiers domestic incident Wednesday evening.

Homicide investigators have charged a 21-year-old man with the Monday morning murder of a Honduran construction laborer, according to the New Orleans Police Department.

A Metairie man faces up to 20 years in prison after admitting Wednesday that he defrauded the Small Business Administration by using Katrina home-repair loans to buy a new car, boat and house.

A Metairie man faces up to 20 years in prison after admitting Wednesday that he defrauded the Small Business Administration by using Katrina home-repair loans to buy a new car, boat and house.

Bobby Freeman was sworn in today as Orleans Parish District Attorney, the office said, becoming the second prosecutor to lead the office in the wake of former District Attorney Eddie Jordan's controversial tenure.

A man murdered during an Uptown robbery and home invasion Monday morning was a native of Honduras and apparently lived in the city for just a few months, according to a coroner's investigator who identified him this morning.

An accountant has been arrested on a charge of embezzling $17,300 from Wishing Well Foundation USA Inc., a Metiarie-based non-profit that grants the wishes of ill children.

A Denham Springs man has pleaded guilty to raping a 13-year-old girl in the Covington area, a crime whose investigation in 2004 touched off accusations of dirty detective work and judicial bias in St. Tammany Parish.

Clarence Johnson, 18, is on trial today for the 2007 murder of 17-year-old Robert Dawson, who was gunned down in Central City as payback for knocking out a neighborhood rival.

The New Orleans coroner's office today identified the 32-year-old woman found murdered in her Bywater home Monday morning.

For more than a year, Joseph Louding stole equipment that had been bought in the name of Jefferson Parish health agencies and hawked it on the street, according to a new arrest report from the Sheriff's Office.

Two men were fatally shot in separate incidents this morning in New Orleans.

In one shooting, a 37-year-old man was gunned down while driving his car in Central City. In the other, a 43-year-old man was shot in an Uptown home invasion, according to a New Orleans Police news release.

Two people were killed early Sunday in separate slayings, including a man who police said was intentionally run over by a car.

The unrelated incidents happened about 1:30 a.m. in Marrero, where a man was shot to death, and about 4:30 a.m. in New Orleans, where the man was run over, authorities said.

The final remaining piece of the wrecked oil barge DM 932 has been taken out of the Mississippi River, officials said.

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Eliot Kamenitz / The Times-PicayuneBARGE PART II---As water pours out from its hull, the second half of the oil barge that was split in half by a collision with a ship on July 23 is slowly hoisted from the water near the upriver span of the Crescent City Connection on Sunday. The first half was raised the day before.

After 14 hours of deliberation, St. Tammany Parish jurors wept openly in court early Saturday as they handed a mandatory life sentence to a New Orleans teen for killing a Salvadoran man last year inside a travel trailer near Slidell.

Louisiana State Police cited a Causeway Bridge motor-assist driver for sparking a five-car pile-up on the northbound span Thursday night as he was driving to help authorities clear another accident.

A man shot last week in his car in the Lower Garden District died Monday morning at University Hospital, an official with the Orleans Parish coroner's office said.

Police identified a man killed while driving a Chevrolet HHR that was riddled with bullet holes at Bienville Street and North Claiborne Avenue about 9 p.m. Wednesday.

The Orleans Parish coroner on Monday identified a 21-year-old New Orleans man as the victim of a Central City killing on Sunday morning.

TED JACKSON / THE TIMES-PICAYUNECouncilwoman Shelley Midura questions Mayor Ray Nagin over the NOAH situation on Thursday.

Mayor Ray Nagin told the New Orleans City Council on Thursday that his staff can't confirm that taxpayer-financed contractors working for New Orleans Affordable Homeownership Corp. performed any work at 90 of the 870 blighted properties assigned to the agency.

Michael Ainsworth / The Dallas Morning News/APIn this Sept. 13, 2006 file photo, the Alphonse siblings, from left, Rod'kessa Alphonse, 6, Alaysa Alphonse, 4, twins Eric and Erin Alphonse, 1, and Yasmine Alphonse, 2, gather around Rhonda Tavey. Tavey, a single mother of two in Houston, welcomed the Alphonse family into her home after they were forced to flee New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. The Harris County District Attorney's office says Tavey was charged today with five counts of kidnapping after abducting the children when their mother attempted to take them back.

HOUSTON -- Five young Hurricane Katrina survivors who were taken from their mother by a woman they had been living with for nearly three years are being interviewed by Child Protective Services about allegations that their mother abused them.

Ted Jackson / The Times-PicayuneBobby Freeman, left, talks with City Councilwoman Shelley Midura last September while Val Solino looks on. Freeman takes the helm of the New Orleans District Attorney's Office on Monday.

Bobby Freeman, the head of the Violent Offender Unit at the Orleans Parish District Attorney's Office, will serve as interm DA for the next three months.