A man was sentenced to 3½ years on Wednesday after he pleaded guilty to setting a fire in the home of a Ukrainian Catholic ...

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 ...

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 ...

New Orleans Police Dept. A former New Orleans priest had pleaded guilty to raping a teenage boy nearly 50 years ago. Lawrence Hecker, 93, pleaded guilty on Tuesday, Dec. 4, to charges handed down ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Just as the trial of former New Orleans priest Lawrence Hecker was set to begin Tuesday morning, he pleaded guilty to kidnapping and raping a boy in the mid 70s. Hecker ...

NEW ORLEANS — Ex-priest Lawrence Hecker pleaded guilty Tuesday morning on all counts in a long-delayed rape trial. The former Catholic priest will be sentenced this month. Hecker's guilty plea ...

HOMER, NY – (WIVT/WBGH) A former Cortland County priest has pleaded guilty in Homer Town Court to endangering the welfare of a child stemming back to inappropriate text conversations with a ...

A former senior Catholic priest is behind bars after admitting to the repeated abuse of a boy more than 40 years ago. Thomas ...

A former priest has admitted causing grievous bodily harm while using scissors to carry out a surgical procedure. Geoffrey ...

A disgraced 93-year-old New Orleans priest pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges involving the sexual assault of a teenage boy in 1975. Hecker entered his plea to aggravated kidnapping, aggravated ...

Ex-New Orleans Priest Pleads Guilty to Rape and Kidnapping in Sexual Abuse Case Ahead of Trial NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A disgraced 93-year-old New Orleans priest pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges ...