A judge has tossed out charges against the parents of an East Feliciana Parish woman who prosecutors say died after years of sitting on a couch in a muck of feces, maggots and ulcers — but the…
Registered sex offender served prison time for beating his father to death in 2004
Orleans Parish Criminal District Court Judge had reset the trial for 2024.
The man accused of killing a waiter outside of Mandina’s Restaurant is now back in New Orleans.
Louisiana legislators who last year demanded answers from Gov. John Bel Edwards on whether he was complicit in a cover-up of state troopers’ deadly arrest of a Black motorist have quietly aban…
1975 crime didn't yield arrest until 2020
'If I can come forward...maybe other women will too.'; accused says he's innocent.
A St. Tammany Parish grand jury has charged a man accused of fatally shooting two brothers in March with two counts of first-degree murder, authorities said.
Former Catholic priest Patrick Wattigny, awaiting trial on child molestation charges, pleaded not guilty Wednesday in St. Tammany Parish to another molestation charge involving a second accuser.
Kristen Morales's appeals of her 2021 firing had already been rejected by the New Orleans Civil Service Commission and state appellate courts.
A defamation lawsuit filed by Loyola University's former director of its School of Communication and Design was thrown out by an appellate court Tuesday.
As Louisiana and federal officials accused him of fraud and the walls started crashing down around his Houston-based law firm, founding partner Zach Moseley came to McClenny Moseley & Asso…
The author of a bill to establish a relief valve for more than 1,000 Louisiana inmates convicted long ago by divided juries says a stealth campaign from district attorneys killed it.The bill b…
Nearly 100 more Louisiana houses of worship could leave the United Methodist Church this weekend.
An Orleans Criminal District judge on Thursday handed a double-barreled win to state prosecutors in the Linda Frickey carjacking-turned-homicide case, finding one of the four teen defendants c…
A former Sewerage & Water Board administrator accused of scheming the agency out of $100,000 was indicted for theft Tuesday.
When David Howell arrived at the courtouse in St. Tammany Parish on May 15, he was hoping to see Blaine Manalle stand trial for the killing of his brother, Jeffery Howell.
Days after Hurricane Ida ravaged coastal Louisiana, leaving shrimpers and fishers without power, water or ice, Jack Montoucet sprang into action to send generators and mobile water units acros…
Nearly a decade ago, a fight inside a club along River Road in St. James Parish ended in the fatal stabbing of 25-year-old Christian Allen, his body left in the street outside the bar after hi…
An Orleans Parish Criminal District Court judge ruled last week that a man accused in two brutal rapes is mentally incompetent, remanding him to Louisiana's only forensic psychiatric hospital.
Her ruling could impact defense attorneys' cases.
Michael Ray Holmes also has sued DA Charles Ballay, claiming a coverup attempt
A Honduran sea captain pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday for his alleged involvement in a scheme which attempted to bring undocumented immigrants and cocaine into the United States in e…
The jury acquitted Breonna Green, 29, of second-degree murder and obstruction of justice.
Former LSU football coach Les Miles, several LSU board members and two attorneys who previously represented the university can all be forced to give depositions in an ongoing lawsuit involving…
A federal appeals court panel in New Orleans took aim Wednesday at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration over its move in 2016 to expand access to a widely used abortion drug, as three conserv…
A convicted sex offender who was briefly an Ascension Parish sheriff's deputy a decade ago pleaded not guilty to federal charges of enticing a minor and crimes against a minor tied to the alle…
The addition will house mentally ill inmates, who make up a little more than half of the jail population. Mayor LaToya Cantrell, the City Council and Sheriff Susan Hutson oppose it.
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