Louisiana

A trial for a Louisiana man accused of randomly stabbing a U.S. Postal worker during her shift on New Year's Eve only took four days, and ended in a unanimous jury, according to a Department of Justice.

The fire chief had been driving a DeSoto Fire Parish vehicle when police said he lost control of the truck and crashed into a fire hydrant.

The report states that the abuses described by detainees "meet the definitions of torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment"

Only about a third of Texas' 100 prison units count with full AC with the rest having partial or no air-conditioning at all.

Albert Herrera Machado is accused of being part of a human smuggling and sex trafficking operation spanning several states

The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) filed a lawsuit on behalf of a migrant who made the claims

A woman allegedly stabbed her boyfriend after he urinated in their bed.

A woman shot and killed a shovel-wielding man that broke into her home while her two children were sleeping.

A 7-year-old girl was mauled to death by a pitbull dog.

A Missouri tourist who was visiting Louisiana with his wife was fatally beaten in his hotel room.

A man was rescued from the Gulf of Mexico after he went overboard from a Carnival cruise ship.

A woman has been arrested after she allegedly threw her 18-month-old baby off a bridge in Houma, Louisiana on Friday, Sept. 23. 

A rising musician was shot dead outside his home in Louisiana on Wednesday for reasons unknown.

Police arrested a white Catholic high school student in Louisiana this week after a video of him throwing cotton at a Black classmate and then thrashing the victim with a belt went viral last week.

A Louisiana man allegedly accidentally killed a pregnant teenager and her unborn child while playing with his gun on Saturday, March 12. 

Cynthia Perkins, a former Louisiana school teacher, has pleaded guilty to a bevy of sex crimes, including feeding children cupcakes with her husband's semen.

An anti-vaccine organization leader, who recently went on a cross-country road trip to perform citizen arrests of Democratic governors, has found himself behind bars and held without bond, a Jefferson County Jail representative confirmed on Tuesday.

An annual U.S. Marshals operation connected to checking on past sexual offenders saved over five missing or endangered teenage girls in the state of Louisiana.

Rutledge Deas IV from Louisiana has been arrested and charged with human trafficking after he was discovered to have been scamming babysitters into changing his diapers in an attempt to fulfill a fetish.

Jonshel Alexander, who came to prominence for her supporting role in the Academy Award-nominated film "Beasts of the Southern Wild," was killed on Saturday while inside a car by an unknown person.

Lanaya Cardwell has been arrested in Baton Rouge on Wednesday for the second-degree murder of her 2-year-old child Nevaeh Allen.

A Louisiana mother has been arrested after she reportedly threw two of her children into a lake from a bridge.

A man has been arrested on Thursday after he interrupted an MSNBC broadcast on Hurricane Ida and accosted a Black reporter on camera. 

An elderly man from Louisiana has been reported missing after an alligator reportedly attacked him and ripped his arm off as the flood rose around his home at the height of Hurricane Ida.

Kenneth Ord Starling has been arrested on Wednesday for allegedly abusing and raping his dogs and having animal sex abuse videos on his computer.

As the highly transmissible Delta variant brings in a fourth wave of cases, hard hit areas such as Houston are seeing strained hospital capacity.

A 12-year-old boy who opened fire at an armed intruder and killed him after he attacked their Louisiana home and threatened his mother on June 30 will most likely not be implicated in the incident, authorities say.

A Baton Rouge, Louisiana family became among the wealthiest in the world for at least three days following a technical glitch that caused their bank to erroneously deposit a whopping $50 billion into their account. 

A vengeful lesbian woman has been accused of hiring four teenage boys to murder her ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend, but the plan went unsuccessful after one of them bailed at the last second.

The documents highlighted how Brooke Buchler told many people about how an acquaintance had raped her, which triggered a retaliation of sorts.