It was not immediately known whether the flood authority would continue to pursue the federal suit by asking for a 5th Circuit rehearing or going to the Supreme Court ...
The state Department of Natural Resources doesn't have the staff, funding or capability to conduct the thousands of "administrative enforcement actions" necessary to address the violations alleged by the parish, the judge ruled ...
As of last week the two candidates for the only contested seat on Louisiana Supreme Court had raised a total of $1.5 million in campaign contributions ...
Earlier this month, a three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an injunction blocking the cut, which would have kept needy Louisiana women from getting non-abortion services at Planned Parenthood facilities ...
The reports suggest the use of pre-trial diversion programs, more drug courts, reducing the use of mandatory minimum sentences and providing more rehabilitation services to inmates ...
We need to face up to how the “new New Orleans,” so celebrated by the Mayor and the self-anointed civic elite, in fact amounts to a hostile assault on African-American families and the working poor ...