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19 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: September 14, 2026.
Terrebonne Parish deputies say Kaegan Jude Solet, 47, was taken into custody near the neighborhood early Sunday after a weekend manhunt. Investigators say the killings were not random and that Solet has 'a link' to the victims.
The British commentator, a longtime advocate of aggressive deportation, was picked up near New Orleans. DHS says he entered legally in 2019 and overstayed.
The state health department reported nine confirmed Vibrio vulnificus infections in 2026, all requiring hospitalization, against a ten-year average of seven cases and one death per year.
Attorney General Liz Murrill said Saturday that Louisiana will join Alabama and Florida in examining whether the former NIAID director committed offenses prosecutable in state court. Biden's federal pardon does not reach state charges.
WatchForecasters posted tropical storm warnings from the Florida Panhandle to Louisiana, with up to 6 inches of rain and a 4-foot storm surge threatening the coast through Thursday.
A New Orleans grand jury charged the state's first female attorney general with intimidation and malfeasance, touching off what one prosecutor called a 'constitutional crisis.'
The Louisiana senator's defeat demonstrates the president's continued dominance within his party, even as broader views about Trump could prove costly in midterm elections.
The two-term Republican senator who voted to convict Trump in 2021 failed to make the runoff, demonstrating the president's continued grip on the GOP.
Votes for House candidates won't count after state officials moved the election to November to allow time for redistricting.
Within nine days of Louisiana v. Callais, four Republican-led Southern states have launched coordinated mid-decade redistricting drives that strategists say could net the GOP between four and seven additional U.S. House seats.
Justices agree to quickly return redistricting case to lower courts, potentially forcing new congressional maps ahead of 2026 elections.
The 6-3 Voting Rights Act decision will reshape congressional maps across the South before November, after a bitter exchange between Justices Alito and Jackson over the Court's accelerated timeline.
First day of early voting reveals widespread bewilderment following last-minute legal changes to election procedures.
Louisiana lawsuit leads to emergency halt of FDA regulation that expanded mifepristone distribution nationwide.
Secretary of state suspends House primary following court ruling that state's congressional districts are unconstitutional, while Senate primary proceeds.
High court rules state's redistricting constitutes unconstitutional racial gerrymandering, potentially limiting creation of majority-minority districts nationwide.
WatchJustice Samuel Alito's majority opinion strikes down Louisiana's two majority-Black congressional districts. Justice Elena Kagan warns Section 2 has been reduced to 'a dead letter.'
WatchShamar Elkins, 31, killed seven of his own children and a cousin across three Shreveport, Louisiana, homes Sunday before being shot dead by police — the deadliest mass shooting in the US since January 2024.
The ruling clears the way for energy companies to move environmental cases from state courts to more favorable federal venues.