During the past winter, parts of California experienced massive amounts of rain and snow. Though it momentarily eased the frequent drought periods that had been affecting the state, the surge in rainfall flooded roads, knocked out power, and broke levees.
HOMER, La. – Information about a fight this summer involving Sheriff Sam Dowies’ adult stepsons that sent a young Haynesville man to the hospital with serious injuries has publicly surfaced
Greg Lawson, now 63, was convicted of attempted murder in 1991, but fled the courtroom before the jury's guilty verdict and vanished for over three decades.
According to authorities, two young children one four years old and one seventeen months old, walked away from a residence in the 100 block of Winkler Road near the town of Haynesville in rural Claiborne Parish. Claiborne Parish Sheriff’s deputies arrived at the residence where the children were last seen at approximately 10:15 a.m. on Monday, Sept. 18.
Greg Lawson, 63, of Louisiana, had been living in the Mexican state of Oaxaca under a stolen identity, officials said. He was arrested and extradited this week.