It was 4 p.m. at the Central Louisiana ICE Processing Center, shift change. Employees streamed out, some in blue uniforms and ...

The Justice Department is lifting a school desegregation order in Louisiana dating to the Civil Rights Movement, calling its ...

The Mississippi Supreme Court has scheduled the execution for the state's longest-serving death row inmate for June 25 ...

A man indicted in the grisly murders of a Louisiana mother and her daughter has been found competent to stand trial.

Louisiana is notorious for a trifecta of compounding barriers to effectuate the rights of immigrants: conservative courts, ...

A man who has served nearly three decades on death row in Louisiana has had his conviction overturned by a judge.

A North Carolina corrections officer has died after being struck by lightning earlier this month, and is the first known ...

The Mississippi River is approaching levels that could trigger a full operation for the first time in four years.

A Louisiana man has been arrested in connection with the shooting death of a Mississippi resident who was found unresponsive outside his home earlier this week. Devin Wheeler was taken into custody in ...

as rainfall from storms in the Midwest and South trickle down to Louisiana. Forecasts issued Friday morning say significant rises will occur on the lower Mississippi for the next two weeks ...