Louisiana

Louisiana’s prison system routinely holds people weeks and months after they have completed their sentences. That is according to a lawsuit filed Friday by the U.S. Department of Justice.

It’s time to say “Goodbye” to 2024 and “Hello” to 2025. You can cozy up in the comfort and warmth of your home and watch Lone Star NYE: Countdown to 2025 and ring in the New Year with a night of high-energy entertainment and a dazzling fireworks and drone show over the Dallas skyline!

‘Lone Star NYE: Countdown to 2025’ bids farewell to 2024 and welcomes 2025 in style with music from The Jacksons plus a dazzling fireworks and drone show over the Dallas skyline at midnight!

Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman, was roused from her bed by police who came through the door using a battering ram after midnight on March 13, 2020.

Dallas police are searching for victims of East Texas resident Matthew “Matt” Thrasher, who is charged with wire fraud and money money laundering.

A TikTok creator with millions of followers is in the Dallas County jail accused of murder. Terryon Thomas aka Mr. Prada was arrested two days ago in Dallas on suspicion of stealing the victim’s vehicle. On Thursday, investigators added a murder charge to the 20-year-old’s rap sheet saying he brutally beat a well-known Louisiana therapist. Meredith Yeomans has the...

A TikTok personality known as Mr. Prada is charged in the bludgeoning death of a Louisiana therapist whose body was discovered over the weekend in a rolled-up tarp near a state highway, authorities said Thursday.

A tropical system in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico was expected to strengthen this week into a tropical storm and dump heavy rains onto Mexico and Texas before reaching the U.S. as a potential hurricane, the National Weather Service said Sunday.

An LSU sophomore cornerback is facing charges after authorities said he video-recorded himself having sex with a woman without her consent.

Louisiana has agreed to delay implementing a requirement that the Ten Commandments be placed in all of the state’s public school classrooms until at least November. The agreement was approved by a federal judge on Friday. A lawsuit was filed in June by parents of Louisiana public school children with various religious backgrounds. They said the law violates First Amendment...

A truckd river rolling down I-10 in Louisiana said he thought he saw a discarded baby doll on the side of the highway until it moved. “When I got to him … once I grabbed his hand, he stopped crying.”

A federal appeals court in New Orleans is taking another look at its own recent order requiring a Texas county to keep eight books on public library shelves that deal with subjects including sex, gender identity and racism.

Louisiana has become the first state where judges can order offenders guilty of certain sex crimes against children to undergo surgical castration.

Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom under a bill signed into law by Republican Gov. Jeff Landry on Wednesday.

Louisiana lawmakers gave final approval to a bill that would allow judges the option to order someone to undergo surgical castration when the person is convicted of a sex crime against a child younger than 13.

A member of the public found the dolphin with “multiple bullets lodged in the carcass,” including in the brain, spinal cord and heart, officials said.

Dr. T. Lamar Goree is the lone finalist for superintendent of the Duncanville Independent School District. He led the Caddo Parish Schools District in Northwest Louisiana for over a decade.

On Wednesday, Dallas Zoo officials posted on X that the whooping crane chick, which was born at the zoo on June 10, 2023, was found dead with a gunshot wound near Mamou, Louisiana, on Jan. 9.

The New Orleans police chief says conditions at the department’s aging headquarters are so deplorable that rats have munched on marijuana contraband in the evidence locker.