The Associated Press

Louisiana officials have agreed to pay $9 million to a man who was partially paralyzed after a state trooper shot him in the back during a 2018 traffic stop in Baton Rouge.

A Marine Corps veteran's wife has been released from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention following advocacy from Sen. John Kennedy, a Louisiana Republican who backs President Donald Trump's hardline immigration crackdown.

Jimmy Swaggart, the famous televangelist, passed away in Baton Rouge Tuesday after suffering a cardiac event on Father’s Day. He was 90 years old.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detained the wife of a Marine Corps veteran in Louisiana during a routine immigration appointment in New Orleans.

A panel of three federal appellate judges has ruled that a Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments to be posted in each of the state’s public school classrooms is unconstitutional.

Louisiana lawmakers concluded their 2025 legislative session on Thursday by passing the state’s $51 billion budget.

“I’m really worried about what is going on above us and what is happening, and we as Louisiana citizens did not give anyone the right to do this above us,” Louisiana Rep. Kimberly Landry Coates said.

Bobby Gumpright was in the throws of addiction 25 years ago when he fabricated a story that he had been robbed at gunpoint by a Black man. Jermaine Hudson was arrested and convicted by a nonunanimous jury.

Two years after a Louisiana mother donated her kidney to her daughter, the duo graduated together from nursing school.

The world's largest immigration detention system is on the cusp of explosive growth as President Donald Trump pursues his signature campaign promise of mass deportations.