Focus shifts to "trigger laws" and state courts after Roe v. Wade is overturned
Judges in Louisiana and Utah temporarily blocked enforcement of trigger-law bans on abortion following the Supreme Courts' overturning of Roe v. Wade.
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Judges in Louisiana and Utah temporarily blocked enforcement of trigger-law bans on abortion following the Supreme Courts' overturning of Roe v. Wade.
Dozens of puppies and older dogs were rescued from overwhelmed shelters in Louisiana and Texas, which filled up with animals that displaced families could no longer care for.
More than a million people are still without power in Louisiana and Mississippi after Hurricane Ida hit the Gulf Coast over the weekend.
The storm slammed into Louisiana as a Category 4 hurricane Sunday and left millions without power.
Volunteers with the American Red Cross in Greater New York, along with other volunteers from across the country, are preparing for Ida.
Beaten and shackled by Louisiana state troopers, Black motorist Ronald Greene desperately tried to roll over in what may have been a struggle to breathe but was ordered to stay on his belly, according to body-camera video released by the Louisiana State Police.
Hurricane Delta made landfall in Louisiana on Friday. Damaging winds and flooding rain hit an area still recovering from a prior hurricane just weeks ago.
President Trump on Saturday toured damage from Hurricane Laura in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and Orange, Texas – two of the hardest-hit areas.
Hurricane Laura made landfall overnight near Cameron, Louisiana, bringing "catastrophic storm surge, extreme winds and flash flooding" to portions of the state, the National Hurricane Center said Thursday.
Police say the five-pound somehow put the vehicle into reverse after the couple got out in pump gas at a local filling station.
Rutledge Deas, who reportedly goes by "Rory," is accused of creating multiple social media posts to lure home health care workers in to satisfy his fetish.
Gretna Police Officer Charlie Rispoli, a 14-year veteran, called the former bartender a "vile idiot" who "needs a round… and I don't mean the kind that she used to serve."
Hurricane Barry weakened to a tropical storm Saturday as it made landfall on the Louisiana coast.
A potentially deadly brain-eating amoeba has been found again in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana.
A Buffalo Wild Wings in Louisiana is stepping up to help the local homeless after one of their servers allegedly left a vulgar note on a customer's receipt.
A group of young men in Louisiana weren't seeking any attention during their pickup basketball game, however a small sign of respect has made them social media stars.
Officer Blane Salamoni shot Sterling six times during a struggle outside the Triple S Food Mart, where the 37-year-old black man was selling homemade CDs.
Multiple people were injured Sunday night when an oil rig exploded in Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana, officials said.
President Donald Trump arrived in Houston Saturday for his second visit to the devastated region.
The president had taken some criticism by opting to finish a two-week family vacation in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, before inspecting the flood damage personally and meeting with residents.
The death toll in the Louisiana flooding has climbed to ten, and more than 11,000 people are in shelters. While floodwaters have started to subside in some places, they are moving south now.
While some of the water was receding, and residents began to assess the damage, there was still more rain in the forecast.
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A magistrate on Monday ordered New York real estate heir Robert Durst held without bond on weapons charges in Louisiana.
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