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Two suspects are charged with third-degree rape and two others with being principals to third-degree rape for alleged crimes against LSU student Madison Brooks.

As Hurricane Ida struck the Louisiana Gulf Coast in August 2021, Renato Decena and Rosel Hernandez watched the storm punch a hole in the roof of the bunkhouse where they were sheltered — abandoned, they allege, by their offshore oil industry employer as the hurricane bore down. (Jan. 27)

Nearly 27% of people were held past their release dates during one three-month period, the investigation found, and of those, about a quarter were held for three months.

Overdetention is not unheard of elsewhere, but Lousiana is “deliberately indifferent” to “systemic” shortcomings, the Justice Department said.

Dramatic video shows a couple racing to outrun a tornado in Texas, jumping into a ditch for shelter.

Police have arrested four people who were allegedly involved with raping a Louisiana State University student and then leaving her, leading her to be hit and killed by a car in Baton Rouge, La. WAFB reports two males were charged with third-degree rape of LSU student Madison Brooks, who died early Jan. 15, 2023, after being hit by a vehicle. Two other males were charged with principle to rape, or being present without taking part in the alleged crime. She was hit by a vehicle near the scene around 3 a.m. on Burbank Drive near Pelican Lakes Parkway and later died at an area hospital. We will work openly against any business that doesn’t join us in efforts toward creating a safer environment for our students.

A cold front forecast is causing a chance of tornadoes and severe storms in communities from Louisiana to Florida. The severe weather will start Tuesday and go until early Wednesday.

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, police have not made any arrests in the shooting that unfolded early Sunday inside Dior Bar & Lounge nightclub, sending a dozen people to the hospital.

A dozen people were injured in a Baton Rouge nightclub shooting, authorities in Louisiana said Sunday. No arrests have been made, but police believe the early morning attack was "targeted."

No arrests have been made, but police believe the early morning attack was "targeted."

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A dozen people were injured in a Baton Rouge nightclub shooting, authorities in Louisiana said Sunday. “I do understand the interest and everybody wanting information, but remember ... we have to get this right,” Paul said about the ongoing investigation. Although the number of homicides in Baton Rouge decreased last year from 2021, Louisiana’s capital city has been plagued by gun violence. In October, an early-morning shooting near Southern University’s campus in Baton Rouge left nine people injured.

Baton Rouge Police Department officials said 12 people were injured in a shooting that occurred at Dior nightclub on Bennington Avenue on Sunday morning.

One of the victims is in critical condition, while the rest are listed as stable, police said. The shooting occurred inside the Dior Bar & Lounge around 1:30 a.m., said Sgt. L’Jean McKneely Jr., a police spokesman. While no arrests have been made and the motive for the shootings is unknown, McKneely said the police department does have leads.

A small, historically Black university in Louisiana has plans to create a new medical school in New Orleans. The school made the announcement last April but didn't give a date to apply.

The Louisiana police shot and injured a man fleeing from an earlier shooting on Monday. After a police chase, two suspects fled on foot and police dogs tracked down one of them.

The former Missouri police chief has been indicted in a drug overdose death in his home last year. He is facing second-degree murder charges in the death of his brother's girlfriend.

A woman working as a Louisiana police informant was raped twice during a drug buy, she claims in a lawsuit against her handlers.

A police informant raped twice during an undercover drug buy in Louisiana has filed a lawsuit alleging her law enforcement handlers failed to monitor the sting in real time.

A police informant raped twice during an undercover drug buy in Louisiana has filed a lawsuit alleging her law enforcement handlers failed to monitor her in real time and allowed the attack to “play out” despite concerns over how long she was inside a known stash house. The suit filed this week in Alexandria alleges Rapides Parish sheriff's deputies “coerced” the woman into working as a confidential informant after her arrest on felony drug charges and failed to keep their promise to protect her if a purchase went bad. The January 2021 incident was the subject of an Associated Press investigation that highlighted the perils police informants face seeking to “work off” criminal charges in often loosely regulated, secretive arrangements with law enforcement.

Louisiana mom of four Amber Bergeron described her struggle with finding special formula for her twins as baby formula prices are set to skyrocket by nearly 20%.

A member of the Air Force football team died after suffering a medical emergency on his way to class Monday morning, the U.S. Air Force Academy announced. The Academy says offensive lineman Hunter Brown of Lake Charles, Louisiana died after suffering a medical emergency outside his dormitory. “Our players, staff and entire Academy have been so blessed and fortunate to have Hunter as a part of our lives. Brown, a Cadet 3rd Class, was “well-respected” in Cadet Squadron 16, according to Lt. Gen. Richard M. Clark, U.S. Air Force Academy Superintendent. Academy chaplains, mental health professionals and others were already in place for cadets, faculty and staff, Brig.

The woman got into a scuffle with the suspect during the home invasion, then fatally shot him, police said.

A Louisiana man on parole was shot and killed after allegedly beaking into a home in Hammond, with an armed mother inside with her children.

One day, after going through some boxes of old family photos, I saw a picture of my mom’s grandmother on her wedding day, standing next to my Irish great grandfather John Donnelly. It was completely …

Bataan survivor Lloyd Ponder, 101, remembers enduring malaria and hunger in POW camps because ‘God sustained me.’ He came home and married his sweetheart.

The deaths of two teenage girls in a Louisiana town have brought renewed attention to fatalities that happen during high-speed police chases.

More than 1.3% of the adult population in the U.S. was displaced by natural disasters in the past year, with hurricanes responsible for more than half of the forced relocations.

The state's new law went into effect this week with the intent of protecting minors from pornographic content online, according to lawmakers.

Louisiana's Republican U.S. Sen. John Kennedy told supporters on Wednesday that he will not run for governor in October.

Residents are rebuilding after storms snapped light poles and uprooted trees.

Maggie Dunn, 17, and Caroline Gill, 16, were killed when their car was struck by a police cruiser Saturday morning on a state highway.

An attorney says Louisiana authorities' use of facial recognition technology led to the mistaken-identity arrest of a Georgia man on a fugitive warrant.

Louisiana authorities’ use of facial recognition technology led to the mistaken-identity arrest of a Georgia man on a fugitive warrant, an attorney said in a case that renews attention to racial disparities in the use of the digital tool. Randall Reid, 28, was jailed in late November in DeKalb County, Georgia, The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate reported.

A police officer has been charged over his role in the death of two teenagers during the high-speed pursuit of a home-invasion suspect in Louisiana. Officer David Cauthron, who works for police in the community of Addis, was arrested Sunday evening, WBRZ-TV reported. He is charged with two counts of negligent homicide and one count of negligent injuring, District Attorney Tony Clayton told the station. It wasn't clear Monday whether Cauthron had a lawyer to speak on his behalf.

Crews in a boat and a helicopter had found no sign of those who were on board by evening.

A homeless man died from cold weather exposure on Christmas day. The man was trying to travel from Louisiana to Tennessee to get to his family. He was living in the woods when he died.

Much of the focus on politics in 2023 will be on the emerging presidential race.

A 57-year-old homeless man, who died from cold weather exposure Christmas day, was trying to travel from Louisiana to Tennessee to get to family members, officials said. Charles Wilson Ligon Jr. was found dead by hunters in southern Mississippi Monday. Ligon was dressed in a light jacket and had money and a cellphone, The Times-Picayune reported.

The boy was 16- and 17-years-old at the time of the incidents.

Clayton Tune connected with Nathaniel Dell for a 12-yard touchdown with 20 seconds remaining, and Houston rallied from a 13-point deficit to beat Louisiana-Lafayette 23-16 in the Independence Bowl.

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A man was fatally shot while fleeing a motel after an argument about stolen drugs. Maurice Mallory was arrested Friday for the killing at a FairBridge Inn Express in Baton Rouge.

A Louisiana dog named Artemis is drawing praise for protecting his 4 and 7-year-old owners while they were lost in the woods for four hours earlier this week.

Cleanup has begun in the South, where tornadoes caused by a large northern storm system have wrought widespread destruction from Texas to Florida.

The St. John Parish Sheriff's Office has released a video showing a lightning strike this week in LaPlace, Louisiana, as tornadoes and severe weather swept through the region.

The storms are expected to hobble the Midwest with wintry weather for days and push up the East Coast into New England.

Authorities initially blamed Greene's death on a car crash, before long suppressed body-camera video showed White officers beating, stunning and dragging the Black motorist as he wailed, "I'm scared!"

A storm system that spawned dozens of reported tornadoes from east Texas to the Florida Panhandle was all but done with the South on Thursday after killing at least three people and uprooting families across Louisiana, where some homes were blown into pieces.

Multiple buildings, including a medical center, suffered significant damage after at least two tornadoes touched down in a Louisiana city.

The child’s father reported them missing from their home, which the sheriff said was demolished in the storm. Forecasters expect the storm system to hobble the upper Midwest with ice, rain and snow for days, as well as move into the Northeast and central Appalachians. It was also trash day, so the storm picked up and scattered garbage all over, he said. National Weather Service meteorologist Melissa Dye in the Twin Cities said this is a “long duration event” with snow, ice and rain through Friday night. The same weather system dumped heavy snow in the Sierra Nevada and western U.S. in recent days.

A mother and son in Louisiana were found dead after their home was demolished in the storm.

A mother and son in Louisiana were found dead after their home was demolished in the storm.

A destructive winter storm marched across the U.S., delivering blizzard-like conditions to the Great Plains hours after tornadoes touched down in parts of Texas, Oklahoma and in Louisiana.

A severe weather outbreak sent a tornado tearing through Caddo Parish, LA., killing two people, including a young boy, and creating massive search efforts for his missing mother.

A twister in Louisiana killed a young boy and left his mother missing. Another caused the most damage one detective said he's seen in 17 years on the job.

"I won't be fussing at him for chewing up blankets and shoes," the girls' father said.

NEW ORLEANS — The judge told Johnny Traweek he had served his time, seven months, for hitting someone with a saucepan in a drunken fight, then suggested he could be released from the Orleans Parish prison by midnight. Traweek began giving away his jailhouse comforts — a blanket, two orange sweatshirts, ramen, soda. Then he waited out the final hours of May 2, 2018, his last legal day behind bars. Midnight came, midnight went. Around 4 a.m., Traweek was lying in bed, eyes open, when the staff sum

French President Emmanuel Macron has paid a visit to Louisiana, the U.S. state most closely aligned with his country historically and culturally.

Residents in several towns across Louisiana and Mississippi have taken cover amid the blare of tornado sirens amid a severe weather outbreak erupting in the Deep South.

Foster Farms has recalled 148,000 pounds of fully cooked frozen chicken breast patties due to possible foreign matter contamination.

A federal appeals court has ruled that Congress gave too much power to a nonprofit authority it created in 2020 to develop and enforce horseracing rules.

People who work in hurricane-affected areas often talk about the stress the long rebuilding process can take on people and the anxiety stirred up during hurricane season.

Greta Van Fleet, a rock band from Frankenmuth, has postponed their November shows as the lead singer is recovering from a ruptured eardrum.

Authorities in southeast Louisiana's St. James Parish say all but two families have been allowed to return to their homes a day after a train car derailment and hydrochloric acid leak forced the evacuation of 200 residences.

The Environmental Protection Agency has awarded grants for projects to monitor air quality in 37 states, with a focus on minority communities and other areas overburdened by pollution.

LSU re-entered The Associated Press College Football poll at No. 18 and No. 25 South Carolina earned a ranking for the first time in four seasons.

Court records show a woman accused of starving and abusing her twin teenagers had been arrested a decade earlier on a child abuse charge.

A shipwreck has emerged along the banks of the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, as water levels plummet — threatening to reach record lows in some areas.

The unusually low water level in the lower Mississippi River is causing barges to get stuck in the mud and sand.

An outspoken Christian conservative attorney from Alabama wants a federal appeals court to revive a Louisiana pastor's damage claims against state officials over long-expired COVID-19 restrictions.

The Louisiana Bond Commission has approved a $39 million future line of credit for a critical New Orleans area power plant project that had become an unlikely pawn in the ongoing political tug-of-war over enforcing Louisiana’s near-total abortion ban.

Raising Cane’s, a restaurant chain based out of Louisiana, is opening its first Michigan location off Michigan State University’s campus next month.

An International Crane Foundation official says it's exciting that a record eight whooping cranes have taken wing in Louisiana after hatching in the wild.

A pregnant Louisiana woman who was denied an abortion even though her fetus has a rare and fatal condition is asking Gov. John Bel Edwards to call a special session of the legislature to clarify the state’s abortion law.

The world's smallest and most endangered sea turtle has hatched in Louisiana's wilds for the first known time in 75 years.

A restaurant customer in Fort Lauderdale has died of a bacterial infection after eating raw oysters.

There's no dispute that Louisiana needs to replace its voting machines.

Access to abortion in Louisiana has been back-and-forth for weeks — with the state’s three clinics relying on rulings and temporary restraining orders to continue operations.

Federal meteorologists say this hurricane season may not be quite as busy as they initially thought, but it should still be more active than normal.

A Louisiana sheriff says rapper Mystikal is again accused of rape.

Court battles over abortion continue to play out in multiple states in the aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling reversing abortion rights.

Louisiana authorities have once again been blocked from enforcing the state’s near total ban on abortion.

Louisiana authorities can now enforce the state’s ban on almost all abortions under a new court order.

Arizona’s Republican attorney general says a total ban on abortions that has been on the books since before statehood can be enforced.

The Supreme Court has put on hold a lower court ruling that Louisiana must draw new congressional districts before the 2022 elections to increase Black voting power.

The fall of Roe v. Wade shifted the battleground over abortion to courthouses around the country, as abortion foes looked to quickly enact statewide bans and the other side sought to buy more time.

The owner of seven Louisiana nursing homes whose residents suffered in squalid conditions after being evacuated to a warehouse for Hurricane Ida has been arrested.

Walmart is expanding health care coverage for employees who want to use a doula, a person trained to assist women during pregnancies, in an effort to address racial inequities in maternal care.

Louisiana's Democratic governor says he'll call the state's Republican-dominated Legislature into special session to draw up new congressional districts.

Employees at a Starbucks store in New Orleans are the first in Louisiana to unionize.

The Supreme Court has allowed the Biden administration to use a higher estimate than Republican-led states want for calculating damages to people and the environment from greenhouse gas emissions.

Descendants of slaves who lived in southeastern Louisiana have won a key ruling allowing their legal opposition to a grain elevator to be built along the Mississippi River to go forward.

A judge has ordered a two-week halt on phasing out pandemic-related restrictions on seeking asylum as the Biden administration prepares for the restrictions to be fully lifted on May 23.

The Energy Department has authorized additional exports of liquefied natural gas, or LNG, from planned terminals in Texas and Louisiana.

A livestreamed fatal stabbing of a woman on social media led police to her body in an office building parking lot in Louisiana’s capital.

Three years after an arsonist torched three small Black churches in rural Louisiana, rebuilding is well under way.

An effort by President Joe Biden's administration to account for potential damage from greenhouse gas emissions when creating rules for pollution-generating industries has survived another court challenge.

Human-caused climate change made the record-smashing 2020 Atlantic hurricane season even wetter.

The second-in-command of Louisiana State Police has been placed on leave while an investigation continues into the wiping of his cellphone data during an investigation into Black motorist Ronald Greene’s death.