Almost 20 more cases of hepatitis A have been reported in the last week, according to new numbers released by the Louisiana Department of Health Friday.
LSU officials gave the all clear on campus just minutes before 5 p.m. after reports came in hours earlier of an armed intruder on campus at Coates Hall.
Two men have been arrested on counts of first-degree murder, first-degree rape and aggravated kidnapping in connection with a cold case investigation that dates to 1980.
The Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry (LDAF) announced Monday, Aug. 19 that since June 5, sixteen horses have texted positive for Eastern Equine Encephalitis and one has tested positive for West Nile Virus.
Gov. John Bel Edwards has sent a letter to President Donald J. Trump requesting that he issue a major disaster declaration following the flooding that happened along the Mississippi River this year.
A former Lake Charles police officer has pleaded guilty in federal court to using excessive force against a person he was arresting in 2017. Robert Hammac, 45, repeatedly punched the person in the head despite the fact that “the victim was not resisting in any way or posing a threat."
The attorney for the former head of Louisiana State Police confirmed Wednesday, Aug. 14 that his client, Mike Edmonson, has been cleared by the Louisiana Board of Ethics in several investigations involving alleged misconduct.
Surveillance video shows the alleged attack against controversial comedian Andy Dick who says he was sucker-punched, knocked unconscious and put in the ICU after his French Quarter show last weekend.
A representative for Andy Dick says the controversial comedian was sucker punched, knocked unconscious and put in the ICU after a performance in the French Quarter early Saturday (Aug. 10).
The East Feliciana Parish Sheriff’s Office confirms it’s investigating after a video surfaced on Snapchat early on Wednesday, Aug. 7 of a Slaughter police officer punching another man in a gas station parking lot.
Twenty-two people have been indicted by a federal grand jury in a “large-scale” operation that smuggled drugs into the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.
Deputies with the Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office confirm they’re investigating a bizarre incident involving three school buses at Donaldsonville High School.
Baton Rouge Police Chief Murphy Paul issued an apology to the city of Baton Rouge and the family of Alton Sterling after announcing that the police officer who fired the fatal shot in 2016 will never return to the police department.
A federal judge says both sides will continue negotiating after recent efforts to reach a settlement failed in a class-action lawsuit by Louisiana prison inmates over inadequate medical care
More than 260 new laws take effect Thursday in Louisiana, requiring people to be at least 16 years old to marry, allowing medical marijuana patients to inhale cannabis and adding new restrictions on abortions done via medication
The Louisiana Army National Guard's 832nd Engineer Detachment, 528th Engineer Battalion, 225th Engineer Brigade, based in Plaquemine, is scheduled to deploy to Iraq
A deputy with the Iberia Parish Sheriff’s Office was killed in a mobile home fire in Erath Tuesday, July 16. The Louisiana Office of State Fire Marshal (LAOSFM) is investigating the case.
A man and woman at the center of an Amber Alert were found approximately 1,000 miles from where the alert was issued. Now they are in police custody and their children are safe.
An arrest has been made in the killing of Sadie Roberts-Joseph, a Baton Rouge icon who founded an African American history museum, according to officials during a press conference held Tuesday, July 16.
It has been 29 years since the National Geodetic Survey (NGS) measured Louisiana’s subsidence, but according to recent results from 2018, the state’s elevation is changing.
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) is alerting the public to be cautious of wildlife species seeking higher ground in the aftermath of Hurricane Barry.
The Louisiana National Guard will station troops and high-water vehicles in vulnerable areas around south Louisiana in anticipation of storms this weekend.
With Potential Tropical Cyclone #2 predicted to make landfall in south Louisiana Saturday morning, now is the time to be aware of scams related to severe weather.
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards says a “considerable” amount of water could over-top levees that hold back the Mississippi River in the New Orleans area as emergency officials prepared for a weekend storm.
Deputies have recovered a truck stolen from outside a Baton Rouge doughnut shop Sunday, July 7. A dog that was in the truck when it was stolen was found dead inside, the owner confirmed Monday.
Authorities arrested five men from Plaquemine, La. in connection with a shootout between two vehicles along I-12 in Livingston Parish on June 24, according to Livingston Parish Sheriff Jason Ard.
Sixty-three people from across Louisiana have been arrested on child exploitation charges as part of Operation Broken Heart, the Attorney General’s Office announced Monday, June 24.
On Monday, June 24, the Louisiana Office of Alcohol and Tobacco Control (ATC) issued its first permits to allow the legal sale of hemp-derived CBD products. Multiple temporary permits were issued, the office says, including five in the Baton Rouge area.
A woman working with the Orleans Public Defenders has been falsely portraying herself as a licensed attorney in Louisiana, according to the district attorney’s office.
