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A federal judge sentenced a Livingston Parish couple to a year of probation each for selling vulnerable Louisiana turtles to an undercover agent who was investigating them as part of a multi-agency ...

Karen Deville usually looks forward to rainy days — but not just because it waters her plants. Deville is delighted that when it rains, and box turtles creep out of her yard, in Baton Rouge's ...

The three-toed box turtle is one of the most common turtles motorists will encounter in The Natural State. Two species of box turtle occur in the state, the three-toed and the ornate, the latter of ...

A former Louisiana couple has been charged with violating federal and state law by illegally selling in Louisiana box turtles, according to U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser's office. Vincent Felix ...