New Orleans mayor indicted on federal corruption charges
Prosecutors allege that in October 2021, Mayor LaToya Cantrell and Jeffrey Vappie, her bodyguard, developed a "personal, intimate relationship."
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Prosecutors allege that in October 2021, Mayor LaToya Cantrell and Jeffrey Vappie, her bodyguard, developed a "personal, intimate relationship."
ICE officers detained the wife of a Marine Corps veteran in Louisiana during a routine immigration appointment.
Alsco Uniforms employees told police they initially thought they found a doll wrapped in linens before they realized it was a small child.
Two North Texas children received the surprise of a lifetime in Richardson.
According to police, the remains belonged to an infant who was stillborn in Dallas on May 3. The child's funeral service was held at Golden Gate Funeral Home & Crematory in Dallas on May 17 and was scheduled for cremation.
Inmates Lenton Vanburen, Leo Tate and Jermaine Donald were captured Monday, Attorney General Liz Murrill said.
Federal judge strikes down government regulations requiring most U.S. employers to accommodate workers for abortions.
Ten inmates in all broke out of the New Orleans jail, according to the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office, which runs the facility.
The Nottoway Plantation House, a sprawling mansion on a former Louisiana sugar plantation, was "the South's largest remaining antebellum mansion."
While Pope Leo XIV was born in Chicago, Illinois, records show that his family lineage has deep roots in Louisiana.
In an order, a federal judge wrote there was a "strong suspicion that the Government just deported a U.S. citizen with no meaningful process."
Caleb Wilson was a junior at Southern University and A&M College and a member of the school's famed marching band.
Southern University student Caleb Wilson's death was the result of an alleged off-campus Omega Psi Phi hazing incident, Baton Rouge police said.
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry announced the state will resume executions after a 15-year hiatus, potentially using the experimental method nitrogen hypoxia.
Rapper Kendrick Lamar headlined the much-anticipated Super Bowl 2025 halftime show.
A Louisiana state law passed just last year bans the very policies that make New Orleans a sanctuary city, the only one in the Gulf states.
Snow totals in Louisiana have broken records. Parts of Florida, Texas and Georgia have also accumulated several inches of snow.
Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff Gerald Sticker said the two had met on a gaming platform.
After authorities ruled Megan Parra took her own life, her family would spend years investigating her death, recruiting two retired FBI agents and convincing local and state officials to take a second look at the case.
A district court judge appointed by former President Barack Obama temporarily blocked a Louisiana law ordering schools to display the Ten Commandments.
Cherry and Sherry Wilmore are known in their hometown of Houma, Louisiana, as "everybody's favorite twins."
The National Hurricane Center said Francine, a hurricane when it hit land, was weakening rapidly but was still a heavy rainmaker across several Gulf Coast states.
Hundreds of thousands of Louisiana residents are without power after Francine made landfall as a Category 2 hurricane on Wednesday.
More than 391,000 customers were without power across Louisiana early Thursday, and some 41,000 were in the dark in Mississippi, according to utility tracker PowerOutage.us.
Francine made landfall in southern Louisiana's Terrebonne Parish, the National Hurricane Center said.
