The man who fatally shot retired NFL star Will Smith after a car crash in 2016 has received a 25-year prison sentence following his January conviction on a manslaughter charge
April 25, 2024
They may look like little monsters
April 19, 2024
A federal appeals court says a Biden administration plan to provide student debt relief for people who say they were victims of misleading information by trade schools or colleges is “almost certainly unlawful.”
April 05, 2024
Advocates for adult victims of childhood sexual abuse say they will ask Louisiana’s Supreme Court to reconsider a ruling that wiped out 2021 legislation giving them a renewed opportunity to file damage lawsuits
March 26, 2024
A federal appeals court says a requirement that cigarette packs and advertising include graphic images demonstrating the effects of smoking does not violate the First Amendment
March 21, 2024
The federal appeals court that heard arguments over a Texas law that would allow the state to arrest and deport people who enter the U.S. illegally is a favorite for Republicans
March 20, 2024
A federal appeals court is set to hear arguments on whether former President Barack Obama’s signature health care law must fully cover certain types of preventive care, including HIV prevention and some types of cancer screenings
March 04, 2024
A federal judge says the New Orleans Police Department’s progress in complying with an 11-year-old reform agreement has “accelerated dramatically."
February 21, 2024
New Orleans' Carnival season is nearing its “Fat Tuesday” climax
February 13, 2024
It’s a beloved Carnival season tradition in New Orleans — masked riders on lavish floats fling strings of beads or other trinkets to parade watchers
February 11, 2024
Carnival season 2024 is entering its final days in New Orleans with big parades on the city's main thoroughfares and smaller, offbeat walking clubs strolling the old French Quarter
February 09, 2024
New Orleans’ annual Carnival celebration has entered its high-intensity home stretch with a beefed-up police presence and a weather-scrambled parade schedule
February 02, 2024
Award-winning musician Branford Marsalis is taking on a new job in his hometown of New Orleans
January 30, 2024
A group of federal appeals court judges in New Orleans is mulling whether a 2018 social media post by Tesla CEO Elon Musk unlawfully threatened Tesla employees with the loss of stock options if they decided to be represented by a union
January 25, 2024
More than a dozen federal appellate judges have heard arguments on whether Mississippi can continue to permanently strip voting rights from people convicted of certain felonies
January 23, 2024
A federal appeals court has upheld a block on the enforcement of a Texas law requiring vendors to evaluate and rate the sexual content of books they sell or have sold to schools
January 18, 2024
The countdown to Mardi Gras has begun in New Orleans
January 06, 2024
A federal appeals court in New Orleans says the Biden administration cannot use a 1986 emergency care law to require that Texas hospitals provide abortions for women whose lives are at risk due to pregnancy
January 02, 2024
As much as 1.1 million gallons of oil may have been discharged into the Gulf of Mexico from a pipeline system off Louisiana’s southeast coast
November 21, 2023
A federal appeals court in New Orleans says automaker Tesla did not infringe on its workers’ rights to unionize when it ordered employees at a California assembly plant to stop wearing T-shirts emblazoned with the United Auto Workers logo
November 16, 2023
A federal appeals court has ordered the Biden administration to carry on with an auction of oil and gas drilling leases for Gulf of Mexico waters in 37 days — rejecting arguments by environmentalists
November 15, 2023
The Biden administration has asked a federal appeals court to uphold health care guidance issued last year that says hospitals must provide abortions for women whose lives are at risk due to pregnancy
November 07, 2023
The Biden administration has designated four tracts of federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico off the Texas and Louisiana coasts for development of wind energy
October 27, 2023
Voting rights advocates are locked in a court fight with Louisiana's top Republicans over whether the state must follow Alabama’s court-ordered path in drawing a new, Black-majority congressional district
October 06, 2023
Salt water inching up the Mississippi River is progressing more slowly than once projected — buying time for water systems in metropolitan New Orleans that draw drinking water from the river
October 05, 2023
SAIC Volkswagen says adjusting plant base "necessary"
Low brow and vulgar? Micro dramas shake up China's film industry, aim for Hollywood
Harris campaign reports spending nearly three times as much as Trump in August
Oktoberfest is open. The world’s largest folk festival begins after ceremonial keg-tapping
India's Manipur on high alert over influx of 900 militants from Myanmar
AI is helping shape the 2024 presidential race. But not in the way experts feared
The Midwest could offer fall’s most electric foliage but leaf peepers elsewhere won’t miss out