Texas state troopers set up checkpoints along the Louisiana border Sunday, stepping up enforcement of Governor Greg Abbott’s order for travelers from Louisiana to self-quarantine for 14 days as the state has become the next hotspot of the coronavirus pandemic.
Read moreA federal court denied a request by prisoners at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana, to stop the Department of Corrections from transferring Covid-19 “carriers” to maximum-security prison, finding that the request is based on “speculation and conjecture” about what the department “‘might’ do with respect to transferring inmates.”
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Louisiana’s governor said Thursday afternoon that a 42% increase in coronavirus cases reported between Wednesday and Thursday is likely the result of delays from commercial tests that are typically performed at drive-thru sites, indicating the people getting tested are generally healthy enough to avoid hospitalization.
Read moreHundreds of worshippers attended services at a Louisiana church on Sunday, flouting a ban on large gatherings, angering neighbors and seemingly turning a deaf ear to their governor, who once again warned that hospitals could soon be overwhelmed with new cases of the coronavirus.
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The weather was lovely, the carnival celebration was lively and lasted for weeks, the floats hand-decorated and impressive. Excitement, cheer and a feeling of love for community, music and drink was in the air. But so was an invisible foe.
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Construction of a Taiwanese company’s $9.4 billion plastics complex in Louisiana began this week, despite a stay-at-home order to slow the spread of the coronavirus and high water levels that make construction near levees illegal.
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement kept an asylum seeker with disabilities in solitary for months after he requested accommodations, immigration advocates claim in an administrative complaint accusing the agency of violating federal disability laws.
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Louisiana’s presidential primary election has been postponed by two months, an unprecedented step in the state’s effort to control the novel coronavirus outbreak.
Read moreDescending from unmarked cars, four sheriff’s officers in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, shot Daviri Oseanus Robertson to death, though he was unarmed and merely sitting in a rental car outside a restaurant, Robertson’s family claims in a federal complaint.
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On the conservative side of a divide shaping the Supreme Court’s first abortion case of the Trump era, Justice Samuel Alito appeared wary Wednesday of letting a clinic challenge Louisiana rules that affect its doctors.
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Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards asked a state court judge to step down Wednesday after the judge acknowledged she had used racist slurs – including the N-word – in reference to two black officials in her district.
Read moreSix environmental groups sued the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality for issuing permits to Formosa Plastics to build and operate a new chemical complex in St. James Parish, in East Baton Rouge Parish Court.
Read moreA former employee sued St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Randy Smith and two of his officers in federal court, claiming they falsely arrested and maliciously prosecuted him after he criticized the sheriff’s department, accusing him of “criminal defamation,” though the Louisiana Supreme Court has thrown out that law.
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Nearly wiped out by agricultural pesticides in the 1950s, Louisiana’s state bird the brown pelican has made a tremendous comeback. Now, thanks to 150,000 cubic yards of Mississippi River sand and help from $18.7 million of BP’s multibillion-dollar settlement for the catastrophic oil spill a decade ago, one of the pelicans’ essential nesting grounds is also coming back.
Read moreLouisiana will get $130 million in BP oil spill money to link its second-largest coastal swamp back up to the Mississippi River, and Alabama will receive funds to add up to 12,000 acres to a wildlife management area.
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Holden Matthews, the white son of a sheriff’s deputy who is accused of setting fires to three predominantly black churches last year, pleaded guilty Monday in state and federal court.
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The aspiring black metal musician who was arrested in a series of fires set at African American churches in Louisiana last spring pleaded guilty Monday to federal and state criminal charges.
Read moreShreveport City Court Judge Lee Irvin has been suspended pending an investigation into a romantic relationship he had with a woman who had misdemeanor criminal cases pending before him. Local television station KTBS reported that Irvin’s ex-girlfriend shot herself after finding the judge in bed with the woman from his courtroom.
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