The Latest Breaking News from Louisiana

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

Lejonkica Sharp was charged with six counts of aggravated assault after allegedly trying to run over a group of elementary school kids who had a fight with her child.

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

The Justice Department is lifting a school desegregation order in Louisiana dating to the Civil Rights Movement, calling its continued existence a “historical wrong” and suggesting that others across the South should be eliminated