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 marks a ...

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NEW ORLEANS — A mental competency hearing has been delayed again for a 92-year-old retired Catholic priest faced with charges of raping a teenager after strangling him unconscious in 1975 in a New ...

Ivory Hecker, a local Fox television reporter, is encouraging other journalists to speak out after she accused her station's parent company of keeping reporters silent. "I'm encouraging copycats," ...

Footage of a local Fox News reporter claiming live on air that the network has been "muzzling" her has been viewed more than 2 million times, as she prepares to do an interview sharing her story.

Ivory Hecker told The Daily Beast on Tuesday that she’s been terminated after claiming on-air that the station has “muzzled” her. Senior Media Reporter Fox 26 Houston general assignment reporter Ivory ...

The local television news reporter who revealed on the air that she is about to expose her bosses at Fox 26 KRIV-TV in Houston for allegedly 'muzzling' her has been fired by the station. Ivory Hecker ...

Ivory Hecker, a reporter for Houston’s Fox 26, had a surprise for viewers and her bosses during Monday’s 5 p.m. newscast. "I want to let you the viewers know, that Fox Corp. has been muzzling me to ...

On Ivory Hecker's final appearance on Fox 26, she said she was being muzzled by Fox Corp., and promised to produce recordings of her bosses that would be damning to the Houston TV station. Hecker was ...