The Latest Breaking News from Louisiana

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

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

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.

The Trump administration was also ordered in the case of Mahmoud Khalil to justify its use of a Cold War-era law.

A federal judge says that a Georgetown scholar’s petition challenging the constitutionality of his arrest will stay in a Virginia court, where it was initially filed

Lawyers say the Turkish national, who has been held in a Louisiana Ice center for six weeks, was illegally detained