The Latest Breaking News from Louisiana

Authorities say a fire has destroyed a sprawling mansion on a former Louisiana sugar plantation

A lawyer for a Russian-born scientist and Harvard University researcher charged with trying to smuggle frog embryos has asked that she be brought back to Massachusetts, three months after she was taken to a Louisiana immigration detention center

Chemical plant linked to air pollution and cancer risks in majority-Black region ‘exploring all options for the future’

Margaret Carpenter was previously indicted over reported abortion pill prescription in state with near-total ban

Jimmie Christian Duncan learned in April 2025 that a Louisiana judge had dismissed his capital murder conviction and he would no longer face the prospect of execution. In 1998, a jury convicted Duncan of murdering his girlfriend’s 23-month-old daughter, and he had been on death row ever since.

Bobby Gumpright was in the throws of addiction 25 years ago when he fabricated a story that he had been robbed at gunpoint by a Black man

A Tufts University student from Turkey has returned to Boston after being released from a Louisiana immigration detention center

The election of Pope Leo XIV, who is the first U.S. pope and has Creole roots, is raising more awareness about the complexity of the Creole identity

PhD student imprisoned in Louisiana detention center testifies in orange prison jumpsuit