Wildlife rehabilitators are decontaminating dozens of alligators, brushing their teeth and scrubbing their hides in the weeks after a pipeline rupture dumped 300,000 gallons of diesel fuel into a New Orleans area wetland.
Officers with the Baton Rouge Police Department marched a woman, who is accused of robbing a beauty supply store at gunpoint, to a jail cell on Thursday, Jan. 13.
A recent study found 2020-2021 hurricanes resulted in an estimated $579 million in losses to Louisiana’s fishing industry, according to the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.
Authorities have released the name of the man who died in Saturday’s officer-involved shooting, as well as details about the man law enforcement came to the George O’Neal Road property to arrest.
In lieu of visitation, the Department will continue to offer two free phone calls per week to ensure inmates have continued connection to family and friends. In addition, video calling remains available for a fee.
A nine-year-old has been suspended from a school located on the LSU campus in Baton Rouge after refusing to wear a mask inside his fourth-grade classroom.
An Arnaudville has been arrested after being accused of selling an illegal drug to a female who died after unknowingly ingesting drugs laced with fentanyl, according to the Lafayette Police Department.
The Louisiana Travel ‘Feed Your Soul’ float won the Wrigley Legacy Award for the “most outstanding display of floral presentation, float design and entertainment” at the Pasadena Rose Parade, said Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser.
Michelle Odinet, the Lafayette city judge caught on video using racial slurs on a video, announced her resignation in a letter her attorney sent to the Louisiana Supreme Court on Friday, Dec. 31.
Members of the Algiers community are decrying what they say is a “senseless” killing: a seven-year-old girl, shot and killed while riding in the car with her mother.
The Louisiana State Police has issued a Level II Endangered Missing Child Advisory on behalf of the East Feliciana Sheriff’s Office for a 2-year-old child that was reported missing from his residence in Slaughter.
Officials with Louisiana State Police have identified the person that was killed in an officer-involved shooting in Pointe Coupee Parish on Wednesday night.
A New Orleans-based oil company has agreed to turn over a $432 million cleanup trust fund and pay an additional $43 million to settle a federal lawsuit over cleaning up abandoned wells leaking since 2004, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.
