Speaking at a press conference one day after the shootings by two teenagers who killed three Muslim men at the Islamic Center ...

Four defendants tied to the May 2025 Orleans jail escape were returned to the Orleans Justice Center because of bed shortages ...

Antonio Tyson is expected to receive two consecutive life sentences in the 2022 killings of Father Otis Young and Ruth Prats ...

Wrongfully sentenced to death as a teenager, a Louisiana man reflects on surviving death row, rebuilding life after exoneration, fatherhood, trauma, and a cross-country journey to discover what true ...

Henry Talley was sentenced to life for murder after receiving the same sentence previously for a killing he committed as a ...

It’s Thursday, and that means it’s time to catch up on politics with The Times-Picayune/The Advocate’s Stephanie Grace. Today, we discuss the two candidates still in the race vying for Bill Cassidy’s ...

An Angola inmate, 33-year-old Patrick Jones, died on Tuesday, the state Department of Public Safety and Corrections said. His ...

The immigrant-detention facility known as Alligator Alcatraz, deep in the Florida Everglades, stands out as a uniquely cruel ...

The driver of a motorcycle died Saturday after the bike struck an earthen embankment in Hague. State Police said the bike ...

An inmate at the Louisiana State Penitentiary has died, and an autopsy has been ordered to determine the cause of death.

Louisiana lawmakers have passed a new congressional map to pick up a Republican seat while leaving the state with one of its two majority-Black House districts.

Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. In a ruling that is notably silent on Louisiana’s history of slavery and white ...