A Louisiana bill that would have carved out a path for incarcerated people convicted by now-banned split juries to ask for a new trial has failed.

Attorneys for a man accused of killing four University of Idaho students have asked that his trial be delayed.

The Archdiocese of New Orleans has agreed to pay nearly $180 million to victims of clergy sexual abuse under a settlement ...

The maintenance worker at the centre of a New Orleans jailbreak has insisted he had no knowledge of the crime being committed ...

Lawyer for worker charged with helping New Orleans jailbreak says he shut off water to unclog toilet, not aid escape.

New Orleans Archdiocese agrees to pay nearly $180M to victims of clergy sexual abuse in latest in string of settlements.

Louisiana State Police said Wednesday they have arrested two women, Cortnie Harris and Corvanntay Baptiste, for their roles in helping the inmates who broke free in the early morning of May 16. Harris ...

Sterling Williams was arrested Tuesday in connection with Friday’s jailbreak. His lawyer, Michael Kennedy, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that inmates clogged a toilet to get the water shut ...

Dozens of Rite Aid locations were put on the chopping block amid the company's bankruptcy filing. Is yours on the list?

The last elephants at the Los Angeles Zoo have been quietly moved to a zoo in Oklahoma despite lawsuits seeking to have them ...

A federal judge in Louisiana on Wednesday struck down government regulations requiring most employers nationwide to provide ...

Smoke that filled the cabin of a Delta flight as it took off from the Atlanta airport in February was so thick the lead flight attendant had trouble seeing past the first row of passengers and the ...