The Latest Breaking News from Louisiana

A federal judge in Vermont has decided not to wait for the transfer of a Turkish Tufts University student from a Louisiana immigration detention center to schedule a bail hearing, more than six weeks after she was arrested while walking along a street in a Boston suburb

Two years after a Louisiana mother donated her kidney to her daughter, the duo graduated together from nursing school

Federal appeals court gives government 10 days to transfer Rumeysa Ozturk to Vermont after DOJ lawyers refused to say if pro-Palestine speech is constitutionally protected

A federal appeals court on Wednesday granted a judge’s order to bring a Turkish Tufts University student from a Louisiana immigration detention center back to New England for hearings to determine whether her rights were violated

Federal authorities are seeking to contain and clean up the damage from a decades-old oil well in southeast Louisiana that spewed crude and natural gas for more than a week

An estimated 40 to 100 people were detained by immigration officials, with witnesses reporting they were transported to a detention center in Louisiana

A Turkish Tufts University student says her asthma attacks continue to worsen since being detained in March

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

Alireza Doroudi has been detained in an immigration facility in Louisiana for nearly six weeks