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The sheriff who oversees the New Orleans jail where 10 men escaped last week says defective locks were a key factor in the jailbreak

Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick warned that the fugitives are dangerous but also urged the public ‘not to panic’

A petrochemical plant in Louisiana accused of increasing cancer risks for a majority Black community has indefinitely suspended its operations in part due to the high cost of reducing toxic pollution

An ambitious project to restore a rapidly vanishing stretch of Louisiana coast devastated by the 2010 Gulf oil spill has been thrown deeper into disarray amid claims by Gov. Jeff Landry that his predecessor concealed an unfavorable study that could imperil the $3 billion effort

Voters said no to constitutional amendments on juvenile justice, government spending, and more.

Catch up on the political news of the past week in the latest At the Races newsletter, including special elections and Cory Booker.

Louisiana voters soundly rejected four constitutional amendments championed by Republican Gov. Jeff Landry related to crime, courts and finances

The Supreme Court seems closely divided over a challenge to Louisiana’s congressional map, which added a second Black majority district

A Louisiana woman has pleaded not guilty to a felony after allegedly getting abortion pills from a New York doctor and giving them to her teenage daughter to terminate a pregnancy

Desolate spectacle of executions ramps up as the landscape of states’ laws on capital punishment is as riven as the US itself

‘This is a state that hasn't executed anybody in 15 years, and suddenly there’s this rush to kill,’ Jessie Hoffman’s attorney told The Independent