BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A new chief administrative officer of Louisiana State Police has been named. LSP Colonel Robert Hodges announced the appointment of Lt. Colonel Robert Burns II for the role.

A former Lecompte Police Department chief has been arrested, accused of taking evidence from a storage facility, according to Louisiana State Police. Joseph Dale Thompson, 61, was booked into the ...

Louisiana State Police were searching Sunday afternoon for a suspect they claim led troopers on a vehicle chase, then fled in ...

Detectives with the Louisiana State Police Bureau of Investigations were requested by the Rayne Police Department to investigate the officer-involved shooting after it happened on Tuesday afternoon.

The assault “demonstrated serious failures,” the Justice Department said ... activists and drawn widespread scrutiny of the Louisiana State Police. Similar investigations are underway into ...