Former child actress Jonshel Alexander, who had a supporting role in the 2012 acclaimed film Beasts of the Southern Wild, has died after being shot. The 22-year-old Louisiana native was ...
Chairman of Louisiana’s state Senate Finance Committee, Republican Bodi White, severely criticized the state’s Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD) Friday, according to the Associated Press. With the state set ...
As Louisiana looks to update its aging voting system, one element marked as essential by state leaders is that the new machines must be able to produce an auditable paper ...
A Louisiana board has granted parole to a man at the center of a case that helped change rules for juveniles sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of ...
NEW ORLEANS — A Louisiana parole board granted parole on Wednesday to Henry Montgomery, whose Supreme Court case was instrumental in extending the possibility of freedom to hundreds of people ...
NEW ORLEANS — In recent years, hundreds of people once destined to spend the rest of their lives in prison after being convicted of crimes as juveniles have gone free ...
NEW ORLEANS — A Louisiana board on Friday voted to pardon Homer Plessy, whose decision to sit in a “whites-only” railroad car to protest discrimination led to the U.S. Supreme ...
NEW ORLEANS — A Louisiana board on Friday voted to pardon Homer Plessy, the namesake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1896 “separate but equal” ruling affirming state segregation laws. The ...
A former Louisiana sheriff could face life in prison after being convicted of sexual abuse, the Associated Press reported. Jack Strain, who served as St. Tammany Parish sheriff for two ...
POINTE-AUX-CHENES, Louisiana — On a boat ride along a bayou that shares the name of his Native American tribe, Donald Dardar points to a cross marking his ancestors’ south Louisiana ...
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