Louisiana

Rap artist Hurricane Chris has been arrested on a murder charge in Louisiana

Cristobal has weakened into a tropical depression after crashing ashore a day prior in Louisiana and ginning up dangerous weather father east

Cristobal weakened to a tropical depression Monday after making landfall in Louisiana a day prior. The storm dumped a huge amount of rain and spawned several tornadoes.

Fear and frustration are raging as fast as the coronavirus in some juvenile detention centers, with riots and escapes reported in facilities in hard hit New York and Louisiana

A man was arrested in connection with a drive-by shooting at the Louisiana estate of “Duck Dynasty” star Willie Robertson.

A Texas-based oil field services company laid off more than 30 workers in Louisiana this month, citing “challenging market conditions.” Halliburton announced April 14 that it was permanently closing its facility in Broussard and laying off 36 workers there, according to a notice filed with the Louisiana Workforce Commission that was obtained by news outlets Tuesday. “Unfortunately, Halliburton is making…

Ten years ago, an oil rig explosion killed 11 workers and unleashed an environmental nightmare in the Gulf of Mexico

An 86-year-old Louisiana woman and three of her sons who all tested positive for the coronavirus have died, NBC News reports.

Shell says it is pulling out of a multibillion-dollar deal to renovate a liquified natural gas terminal in Louisiana in order to preserve cash during the coronavirus pandemic. The Advocate reports the company’s Dallas-based partner, Energy Transfer, will take over the Calcasieu Parish project but reduce its size. The move was also prompted by the drop in oil prices....

Texas is ratcheting up restrictions on neighboring Louisiana, one of the growing hot spots for coronavirus in the U.S., and preparing Dallas’ downtown convention center to house infected patients as Gov. Greg Abbott on Sunday announced a sweeping series of moves to both slow and manage the growing pandemic.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) on Sunday announced that the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in downtown Dallas was selected to be the site of a pop-up coronavirus hospital meant to be used if local hospital resources are exhausted.

A week ago, revelers jammed bars in the French Quarter and New Orleans’ Irish Channel neighborhood ahead of St. Patrick’s Day while hotels, taverns and restaurants looked ahead to what is usually a lucrative festival season.

Louisiana mom Hallie Mallet caught a young boy on her surveillance camera running into her garage to give her dog, Dutchess, a quick hug before sprinting away. Mallet took to Facebook to ask her neighbors for their help in identifying the drive-by hugger. The boy’s mom recognized him from the post and he has been invited to play with Dutchess...

Four Texas men are accused of smashing display cases with a sledgehammer and stealing $69,000 worth of jewelry from a Louisiana store, and Texas police are reportedly investigating similar heists. “We’ve had several agencies from Texas contact us, saying they’ve had a similar-type robbery with the same MO,” Lacy Landrum, the city’s director of administration, said in an interview...

A blaze inside a Louisiana refinery turned the night sky a shade of orange, sent a large plume of smoke into the air over Baton Rouge, and its heat could be felt across the Mississippi River.

Southern University and A&M College in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has entered the cannabis industry, making history as the first historically black college or university to join the legal marijuana business, NBC News reported.

Severe storms sweeping across southern portions of the U.S. and up into the Midwest were blamed Saturday in the deaths of at least 11 people, including two first responders, as high winds, tornadoes and unrelenting rain battered large swaths of the country. Storm-related fatalities were reported in Texas due to icy weather, in Alabama from a deadly tornado and in…

The lack of a distress call and flight data recorder coupled with mangled and charred wreckage will make finding the cause of a fiery airplane crash in Louisiana extremely challenging, federal officials said Sunday. National Transportation Safety Board Vice Chairman Bruce Landsberg said at a press conference that it could take 12 to 18 months to figure out why the…

A small plane en route to a college football playoff game crashed into a post office parking lot in Louisiana shortly after takeoff Saturday, killing five people, including a well-known sports reporter who was the daughter-in-law of one of the team’s coaches.

Five people were killed, including a well-known sports reporter, when a small plane crashed in Louisiana on Saturday.