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Justice department launches civil rights investigation after beatings and death of a Black man placed in a chokehold

Troopers found to habitually turn off or mute body cameras during pursuits

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Doctors could face prison and heavy fines and force women to carry medically unsafe pregnancies to term with new restrictions under the state’s latest legislation

Employees at a Starbucks store in New Orleans are the first in Louisiana to unionize

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said there was “no excuse” for a video he watched of the deadly arrest of Black motorist Ronald Greene failing to reach prosecutors for another six months

Louisiana voters will decide in November on a constitutional amendment that would remove language from the state constitution that allows involuntary servitude as punishment for a crime. The amendment would also add language to say that the section of the constitution prohibiting slavery and involuntary servitude “does not apply to…

Louisiana employees who use medical marijuana may soon receive much-needed protection from being fired, reported Marijuana Moment.

There are neighborhoods in Southwest Louisiana that have endured seven federally declared disasters in just two years