Louisiana

Louisiana’s prison system routinely holds people weeks and months after they have completed their sentences. That is according to a lawsuit filed Friday by the U.S. Department of Justice.

Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman, was roused from her bed by police who came through the door using a battering ram after midnight on March 13, 2020.

A TikTok personality known as Mr. Prada is charged in the bludgeoning death of a Louisiana therapist whose body was discovered over the weekend in a rolled-up tarp near a state highway, authorities said Thursday.

Louisiana has agreed to delay implementing a requirement that the Ten Commandments be placed in all of the state’s public school classrooms until at least November. The agreement was approved by a federal judge on Friday. A lawsuit was filed in June by parents of Louisiana public school children with various religious backgrounds. They said the law violates First Amendment...

Louisiana has become the first state where judges can order offenders guilty of certain sex crimes against children to undergo surgical castration.

Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom under a bill signed into law by Republican Gov. Jeff Landry on Wednesday.

Louisiana lawmakers gave final approval to a bill that would allow judges the option to order someone to undergo surgical castration when the person is convicted of a sex crime against a child younger than 13.

A member of the public found the dolphin with “multiple bullets lodged in the carcass,” including in the brain, spinal cord and heart, officials said.

This small Louisiana town was once a lively community with deep roots. Now, locals call it a ghost town.

The New Orleans police chief says conditions at the department’s aging headquarters are so deplorable that rats have munched on marijuana contraband in the evidence locker.

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry said the shortage is not only affecting the state’s economy but its resident’s “way of life.”

In Louisiana, around 60 people currently sit on death row, but an execution hasn’t occurred since 2010. Between a conservative governor and a new execution method, there has been a renewed push to find alternatives to lethal injection.

A knife attack at Louisiana Tech University in the north Louisiana city of Ruston left four women injured. Three of them were seriously hurt and were hospitalized in Shreveport. Two were in critical condition.

A dense “superfog” caused a series of wrecks near New Orleans that killed seven people. What drivers need to know about this weather phenomenon.

At least seven people were killed after a “superfog” of smoke from south Louisiana marsh fires and dense fog caused multiple massive car crashes Monday morning involving a total of 158 vehicles, authorities said.

Preliminary investigation revealed that at least 158 vehicles were involved in the crash.

Salt water from the Gulf of Mexico is creeping up the drought-stricken Mississippi River and threatening drinking water supplies in some Louisiana communities. With little precipitation in the forecast, officials are now hastily preparing for if and when the salt water will reach the state’s most populous city — New Orleans.

An embattled Louisiana police department has been hit with a second lawsuit alleging officers from a street crime unit dragged detainees to an unmarked warehouse dubbed the “Brave Cave,” where they were assaulted, stripped and subjected to body cavity searches.

A Louisiana sheriff says a man wanted on a child rape charge in North Carolina faked his own death last month in a kayaking accident on the Mississippi River.

A Louisiana grand jury has charged a now-91-year-old disgraced priest with sexually assaulting a teenage boy in 1975.