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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.

The Louisiana Senate advanced two bills Monday to crack down on carjackings and thefts of auto emissions systems.

The man the New Orleans Police Department says is responsible for stealing artist carts from Jackson Square is now in police custody.Landon Semones, 42,…

The New Orleans Police Department will start enforcing the city-wide summer curfew on children in response to recent increases in car break-ins and…

This week I’ll be talking with Laura Lippman, whose new book is Sunburn. We’ll also hear from Clayton Delery, author of Out for Queer Blood: The Murder of…