NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana health officials reported nearly 1,300 newly confirmed COVID-19 cases Friday and 28 more deaths related to the disease, bringing the state death toll to 4,...
By KEVIN McGILL (AP) — An October parole hearing has been set for a Black man sentenced to life in prison after stealing hedge clippers in a 1997 burglary, a sentence Louisiana’s Supreme C...
NEW YORK (AP) — Sporting a “Black Lives Matter” face mask, Cuba Gooding Jr. showed up at a New York City court on Thursday to hear lawyers argue over what restrictions to place on te...
By KATHLEEN RONAYNE and WILL WEISSERT (AP) — Joe Biden named California Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate, making history by selecting the first Black woman to compete on a major party...
NEW ORLEANS, La (WTDN) - Aaliyah Hammond, 19, and Diamond Gibson, 21, are cousins, best friends and now business owners. The two launched their online swimwear business called Two Cheeky Swimwear on J...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Crews on Saturday recovered the body of one of two construction workers that had been trapped nearly 10 months ago in the collapse of a Hard Rock Hotel under construction in...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Comedian Andy Dick has filed a lawsuit in New Orleans against the man who punched him last year outside a French Quarter nightclub.
Documents in the July 30 lawsuit were ma...
By KEVIN McGILL (AP) — A man caught with stolen hedge clippers decades ago must continue to serve his life sentence, despite a stinging dissent from the chief justice of Louisiana’s Suprem...
By MELINDA DESLATTE (AP) — A Louisiana judge Thursday upheld Gov. John Bel Edwards’ statewide mask mandate and bar restrictions as legal and enforceable, rejecting claims from Jefferson Pa...
By KEVIN McGILL (AP) — The sheriff of New Orleans can be put back in control of the city’s long-troubled jail despite still-serious problems that triggered U.S. Justice Department oversigh...
