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Jordan LaHaye Fontenot dug into her own family history, specifically her great-grandfather's unnatural death.

The state plans to use nitrogen hypoxia for the first time Tuesday when it’s scheduled to put Jessie Hoffman to death.

A third suspect is in custody following the hazing death of Southern University student Caleb Wilson, Baton Rouge police said.

Nine prisoners have walked free after evidence presented by members of a forensics team turned out to be wrong — yet one man still awaits execution based on their testimony.

For Ford, the declining clearance rate, along with other numbers she has crunched, are indicators that the department’s sex crimes unit remains severely understaffed and underresourced.

New Orleans police say they're investigating after two people were killed and 10 others were wounded in two separate shootings along a parade route.

A Nazi-looted Claude Monet pastel has been returned to descendants of the man who owned it when it was seized in Austria decades ago.

A TikTok personality known as Mr. Prada is charged in the bludgeoning death of a Louisiana therapist. Authorities in Baton Rouge said Thursday that 20-year-old Terryon Thomas is charged with second-degree murder in the death of 69-year-old Nicholas Abraham, a therapist in Baton Rouge.

“Having a felony arrest or conviction on your record is like wearing a heavy yoke around your neck," said Aaron Clark-Rizzio, the legal director for the Louisiana Center for Children’s Rights.

Criminal justice reform advocates, public defenders say Act 281 can negatively impact people accused of non-violent crimes.