Louisiana

FBI Deputy Assistant Director Christopher Raia said the man who drove into a crowd of people in New Orleans posted videos online hours before the shooting that detailed a plan to commit another attack on his family.

The potential link was just one thread being pulled by officials a day after 15 people were killed when a man plowed a pickup truck through New Year’s Day revelers in New Orleans.

Two Princeton University alumni and football stars were among the victims of the New Year’s Day attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans.

President Joe Biden said Wednesday that his administration “will support the people of New Orleans as they begin the hard work of healing.”

Officials have not yet released the names of the 15 people killed in the New Orleans New Year’s Day truck attack, but their families and friends have started sharing their stories.

Security barriers in New Orleans that were intended to protect pedestrians from vehicles but at times malfunctioned were removed for replacement before an attacker drove a pickup truck into a crowd along Bourbon Street Wednesday morning, killing at least 10 people and injuring dozens more.

Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, served in the Army on active duty from 2006 to 2015 and was deployed to Afghanistan in 2009, according to three U.S. defense officials.

New Orleans’ two professional sports teams shared a touching message for the city after the violent attack on Wednesday.

The FBI is investigating the New Year’s Day violence as a terrorist attack.

The attack occurred around 3:15 a.m. Wednesday along Bourbon Street, with crowds in the city ballooning in anticipation for the Sugar Bowl between Georgia and Notre Dame.

The city of New Orleans and local community groups are offering PlayStations to people willing to turn in guns.

The U.S. Coast Guard said Monday that it is investigating the crash and that the river remains open.

Louisiana’s prison system routinely holds people weeks and months after they have completed their sentences. That is according to a lawsuit filed Friday by the U.S. Department of Justice.

Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman, was roused from her bed by police who came through the door using a battering ram after midnight on March 13, 2020.

A TikTok personality known as Mr. Prada is charged in the bludgeoning death of a Louisiana therapist whose body was discovered over the weekend in a rolled-up tarp near a state highway, authorities said Thursday.

Louisiana has agreed to delay implementing a requirement that the Ten Commandments be placed in all of the state’s public school classrooms until at least November. The agreement was approved by a federal judge on Friday. A lawsuit was filed in June by parents of Louisiana public school children with various religious backgrounds. They said the law violates First Amendment...

Louisiana has become the first state where judges can order offenders guilty of certain sex crimes against children to undergo surgical castration.

Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom under a bill signed into law by Republican Gov. Jeff Landry on Wednesday.

Louisiana lawmakers gave final approval to a bill that would allow judges the option to order someone to undergo surgical castration when the person is convicted of a sex crime against a child younger than 13.

A member of the public found the dolphin with “multiple bullets lodged in the carcass,” including in the brain, spinal cord and heart, officials said.