Louisiana public health officials are no longer permitted to promote vaccines, including those against illnesses such as COVID-19 and the flu, to members of the public in a new policy that was covertly implemented in the state.

Álvarez won her first Grammy two years ago

A Louisiana mother accidentally shot her daughter in the leg while aiming at the child's father during a domestic dispute.

A New Orleans woman has been charged with attempted homicide after allegedly stabbing a man in the chest during an early-morning altercation.

A Louisiana University student was arrested for threatening to kill Gov. Jeff Landry on social media for wheeling out a live tiger at a recent football game.

The woman allegedly stole the semi-truck around 6 a.m. Sunday from a business, according to the St. Gabriel Police Department.

The Democratic Party was able to win the seat for the representative of Louisiana's 6th congressional district for the second time in 50 years.

Ne'Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson have astonished the math community by publishing ten proofs of the Pythagorean theorem.

A man with colorful scribbles on his face was arrested after allegedly threatening to blow up an Ulta Beauty store in Alabama.

A trial for a Louisiana man accused of randomly stabbing a U.S. Postal worker during her shift on New Year's Eve only took four days, and ended in a unanimous jury, according to a Department of Justice.

The fire chief had been driving a DeSoto Fire Parish vehicle when police said he lost control of the truck and crashed into a fire hydrant.

The report states that the abuses described by detainees "meet the definitions of torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment"

Only about a third of Texas' 100 prison units count with full AC with the rest having partial or no air-conditioning at all.

Albert Herrera Machado is accused of being part of a human smuggling and sex trafficking operation spanning several states

The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) filed a lawsuit on behalf of a migrant who made the claims

A woman allegedly stabbed her boyfriend after he urinated in their bed.

A woman shot and killed a shovel-wielding man that broke into her home while her two children were sleeping.

A 7-year-old girl was mauled to death by a pitbull dog.

A Missouri tourist who was visiting Louisiana with his wife was fatally beaten in his hotel room.

A man was rescued from the Gulf of Mexico after he went overboard from a Carnival cruise ship.

A woman has been arrested after she allegedly threw her 18-month-old baby off a bridge in Houma, Louisiana on Friday, Sept. 23. 

A rising musician was shot dead outside his home in Louisiana on Wednesday for reasons unknown.

Police arrested a white Catholic high school student in Louisiana this week after a video of him throwing cotton at a Black classmate and then thrashing the victim with a belt went viral last week.

A Louisiana man allegedly accidentally killed a pregnant teenager and her unborn child while playing with his gun on Saturday, March 12. 

Cynthia Perkins, a former Louisiana school teacher, has pleaded guilty to a bevy of sex crimes, including feeding children cupcakes with her husband's semen.

An anti-vaccine organization leader, who recently went on a cross-country road trip to perform citizen arrests of Democratic governors, has found himself behind bars and held without bond, a Jefferson County Jail representative confirmed on Tuesday.

An annual U.S. Marshals operation connected to checking on past sexual offenders saved over five missing or endangered teenage girls in the state of Louisiana.

Rutledge Deas IV from Louisiana has been arrested and charged with human trafficking after he was discovered to have been scamming babysitters into changing his diapers in an attempt to fulfill a fetish.

Jonshel Alexander, who came to prominence for her supporting role in the Academy Award-nominated film "Beasts of the Southern Wild," was killed on Saturday while inside a car by an unknown person.

Lanaya Cardwell has been arrested in Baton Rouge on Wednesday for the second-degree murder of her 2-year-old child Nevaeh Allen.