Daniela Vargas, a native of Argentina who was detained by U.S. immigration agents after she publicly criticized Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids, was released last week.
Harry Morel, a former Louisiana district attorney pleaded guilty to one charge of obstraction of justice. Morel was investigated for sexual abused of at least 20 women, whom solicited for sex in exchange for legal help.
The Louisiana House has voted on Wednesday to triple the wait time for women seeking abortion, bringing it to a total of 72 hours or three days from the previous 24-hour period. Louisiana could be the sixth state to have the longest waiting periods nationwide.
The ruling from appeals court regarding Louisiana's abortion clinics could possibly leave only one open. This could be changed, however, if the high court rules otherwise.
Louisiana Attorney General Jefff Landry has dropped his motion against Governor John Bel Edwards' withdrawal of the lawsuit filed by his predecessor, Bobby Jindal, against the state's adoption of the Common Core Math and English subjects
Robert Durst, a New York real estate heir, pleaded guilty in New Orleans on Wednesday to a weapons charge and agreed to an 85-month prison sentence, a move that could usher in his extradition to California to face murder charges.
Former inmate and rape-convicted, Jermaine Johnson, has been arrested for Webster Parish's Sheriff, Sulyn Prince's death. Evidences found at the sheriff's home has led to the arrest of the former inmate.
A Louisiana judge issued an order on Thursday blocking attempts to defund Planned Parenthood clinics in the state, finding that more than 5,000 low-income patients would lose access to healthcare including cancer screenings and gynecology exams.
Texas on Monday barred Planned Parenthood from receiving state Medicaid money, the latest setback for the women's healthcare provider since it became embroiled in controversy over undercover videos about its handling of fetal tissue.
Planned Parenthood asked a federal court on Tuesday to block Louisiana's efforts to defund its clinics in the state in reaction to the release of secretly recorded videos about how the group handles the tissue of aborted fetuses.
A 59-year-old man who had been committed to a hospital for psychiatric care was identified by authorities on Friday as the gunman who fatally shot two people in a rampage at a crowded movie theater in central Louisiana before turning the gun on himself as police closed in.
Life-size sculptures of slave children haunt the clapboard church on the grounds of the old sugar cane plantation, where ceramic heads of black men will soon sway on pikes in the Louisiana breeze.
Gay marriage supporters in four states where bans on same-sex nuptials were upheld by a federal appeals court said on Friday they will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the issue, and officials in two of the states vowed to do the same.
Immigration activists close to the White House worry that President Barack Obama could delay or scale back executive actions on immigration that he has promised to take before the year ends.
A federal district court judge in New Orleans upheld a Louisiana ban on gay marriage on Wednesday, in a break from a string of recent rulings against such bans in other states following a key U.S. Supreme Court ruling.
A U.S. federal judge on Sunday temporarily blocked enforcement of a Louisiana law that advocates say would likely have closed all five abortion clinics in the state.
The lawsuit filed by New Orleans-based Forum for Equality to recognize the marriage of same-sex couples who got married elsewhere was met with criticism in Louisiana, particularly with conservative interest groups, the Advocate said.
