A constitutional challenge to the Biden administration program enabling Medicare to negotiate lower prices for prescription drugs has been revived by a federal appeals court
September 20, 2024
A federal appeals court has refused to revive former NFL quarterback Brett Favre’s defamation lawsuit against former tight end Shannon Sharpe
September 16, 2024A man whose pickup truck got trapped in rushing floodwaters unleashed by rains from Hurricane Francine was saved by a Good Samaritan who also happened to be an emergency room nurse
September 12, 2024
Grief, pain, hope and faith permeated church services Sunday in an Atlanta area community coping with the nation’s latest deadly school shooting
September 08, 2024
A New Orleans woman has filed a $1 million federal lawsuit accusing Mayor LaToya Cantrell and some members of the city police department of civil rights violations and defamation
July 26, 2024A federal appeals court in New Orleans has ruled unconstitutional a method the Federal Communications Commission uses to fund telephone and broadband services for rural and low-income users
July 24, 2024
Federal prosecutors are accusing a former New Orleans police officer of making false statements about a forbidden romantic relationship with Mayor LaToya Cantrell
July 22, 2024A Louisiana businessman who sent more than 800 elderly residents from his seven nursing homes to ride out Hurricane Ida in a crowded, ill-equipped warehouse has pleaded no contest to 15 criminal counts
July 22, 2024Louisiana has agreed to delay implementing a requirement that the Ten Commandments be placed in all of the state’s public school classrooms, at least until November
July 19, 2024
Kristie Thibodeaux’s gunfire death made news first because it happened in New Orleans’ famous French Quarter
July 13, 2024A federal judge is reining in the use of “strip searches” by police in Louisiana's capital city
July 12, 2024The truck driver who rescued an abandoned baby from the side of Interstate 10 in Louisiana this week says he first thought he might be seeing a discarded doll
July 12, 2024
A Louisiana sheriff says a 1-year-old boy survived two days of sometimes stormy weather before a truck driver spotted him crawling along a roadside
July 10, 2024
Lawyers for retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre have asked a federal appeals court to revive a defamation lawsuit Favre filed against a fellow Pro Football Hall of Fame member — former tight end Shannon Sharpe
July 09, 2024
A federal appeals court in New Orleans is taking another look at its own recent order requiring a Texas county to keep eight books on public library shelves that deal with subjects including sex, gender identity and racism
July 07, 2024
What would be the nation’s largest export terminal for liquefied natural gas has won approval from a federal commission
June 27, 2024
A federal appeals court says eight books dealing with subjects including racism and transgender issues must be returned to library shelves in a rural Texas county that had removed them
June 06, 2024Eight employers who challenged some federal health insurance requirements cannot be forced to provide no-cost coverage for certain types of preventive care, including HIV prep and some kinds of cancer screenings, a federal appeals court in New Orleans ruled Friday
June 21, 2024
A bill signed into law this week makes Louisiana the only state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every classroom in public schools and colleges
June 20, 2024
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has signed a first-of-its-kind bill to classify two abortion-inducing drugs as controlled and dangerous substances
May 24, 2024
Scientists using new methods of measuring the carcinogen ethylene oxide have found much higher than expected levels of the chemical in the air along a corridor in southeastern Louisiana
June 11, 2024
Louisiana's highest court is giving childhood victims of sexual abuse a renewed opportunity to file damage lawsuits
June 12, 2024
A judge's order that three attorneys for Southwest Airlines get religious liberty training has been put on hold by a federal appeals court
June 07, 2024
Southwest Airlines has gone back to federal court in hopes of reversing an $800,000 award to a flight attendant who says she was fired for her anti-abortion views
June 03, 2024
A new Louisiana congressional map giving the state a second majority-Black House district has been rejected by a panel of federal judges
April 30, 2024
Harris campaign reports spending nearly three times as much as Trump in August
New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens freed from captivity in Indonesia's Papua
Sri Lanka has more women voters than men but no female presidential candidates
AI is helping shape the 2024 presidential race. But not in the way experts feared
Japan's Icom: highly unlikely wireless devices that exploded in Lebanon are our products
The Midwest could offer fall’s most electric foliage but leaf peepers elsewhere won’t miss out
Phillies clinch 3rd straight playoff berth and close in on NL East title
Wojnarowski one of the first significant sports 'insiders' to step away from the spotlight