Despite being caught in a 2021 video ripping out Shantel Arnold’s hair, sheriff’s Deputy Julio Alvarado failed to report the incident. A new law authored by Arnold’s attorney will mandate excessive-force reporting for all law enforcement agencies.

Corey Adams was an 18-year-old defensive lineman from New Orleans. Authorities say he was found with a gunshot wound inside a vehicle at an intersection in the Memphis suburb of Cordova on Saturday night.

Joseph Giaime, head of the observatory, joined Louisiana Considered to talk to us about the event’s significance, and how federal budget cuts could impact his observatory.

A cash transfer program for high schoolers resulted in better attendance and more financial literacy, but no improvement in grades.

Earlier this year, the Louisiana Board of Ethics told Gov. Jeff Landry’s political action committee to stop paying for the governor’s membership at the U.S. House of Representatives fitness center.

Some rural Louisiana towns struggle to find candidates due to unique challenges to holding rural office.

Nearly all of the employees of a NASA contractor at the Michoud Assembly Facility and Stennis Space Center that faced layoffs at the end of June have been hired by the company that’s been awarded a similar contract.

State lawmakers unsuccessfully attempted to extend the law this year to cover the intentional exposure of other sexually transmitted infections.

A judge has ordered the release of two Iranian-born LSU students from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center, where they have been detained since late June.

A tropical disturbance in the Gulf of Mexico is bringing heavy rain to Louisiana and Mississippi, but forecasters don’t believe it will strengthen into anything significant.