Garrett Hazelwood

The federal government has sufficient grounds to deport Mahmoud Khalil – the former Columbia University student-activist and green-card holder currently detained in Louisiana — an immigration judge found after a tense hearing at the LaSalle immigration court in Jena on Friday.

Mahmud Khalil, a former Columbia University graduate student and a permanent legal resident of the United States is currently being held in a Louisiana ICE detention center.

The Krewe of Crescent City, Krewe of Elks will roll Uptown, and Barkus through the French Quarter.

Critics call the method cruel, inhumane and a violation of international law.

Most of New Orleans' French Quarter will be closed to vehicle traffic on Friday and Saturday afternoon and evening.

A recent study from the Louisiana Policy Institute for Children found nearly one-third of people who work with children under 5 years old are considering quitting their jobs.

At least a dozen prominent forecasters are predicting more than 20 named storms will form over the Atlantic Ocean this year.

The legislature completed a two-week special session Thursday that will likely reshape the landscape of criminal punishment in Louisiana for years to come.

Years after a federal court declared the practice unconstitutional, judges continue to take money from criminal defendants. Some spend it on resort stays and luxury cars.

The subterranean fire smoldered and smoked for much of the fall, contributing to several dangerous "super fog" events around New Orleans and intermittently affecting the region's air quality for several weeks.