Nation May 20 New Orleans jail worker arrested after admitting he helped inmates escape when they threatened to 'shank' him Authorities have arrested an Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office maintenance worker in connection with the escape of 10 jail inmates.
Nation May 17 Authorities search for escapees after 10 break out of New Orleans jail through hole in cell wall Ten men broke out of a New Orleans jail Friday in an audacious overnight escape by fleeing through a hole behind a toilet and scaling a wall while the lone guard assigned to their cell pod was away getting food,…
Nation Apr 20 15 years after Deepwater Horizon oil spill, lawsuits and coastal restoration have stalled Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Gulf Coast, killing 11 and sending 134 million gallons of crude gushing into the ocean, the effects of the nation's worst offshore oil spill are still being felt.
Nation Mar 04 Powerful storms across U.S. bring range of threats from fires to blizzard conditions Forecasts on Tuesday also predicted dust storms in the southwest, tornadoes in the South and blizzard conditions in the Central Plains, and were forcing some changes to Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
Nation Feb 25 A Black community in Louisiana was eligible for historic landmark designation. The National Park Service withdrew it from consideration The agency withdrew the 11-mile stretch of land known as Great River Road from consideration for National Historic Landmark designation at the request of state officials, who celebrated the move as a win for economic development.
Nation Jan 10 Police bodycam footage shows New Orleans attacker fired at police before they shot and killed him Newly released police bodycam video shows that the Islamic State group-inspired attacker who killed 14 people in a truck rampage on New Year's Day fired at least one time from inside his truck before police fatally shot him.
Nation Jan 05 FBI says driver behind New Year's truck attack visited New Orleans twice before The man responsible for the truck attack in New Orleans on New Year's Day that killed 14 people visited the city twice before and recorded video of the French Quarter with hands-free glasses, an FBI official said Sunday.
Nation Jan 04 New Orleans attacker reserved truck weeks ago, had suspected bomb materials at home, officials say The man who rammed a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year's revelers in New Orleans had suspected bomb-making materials at his home and reserved the vehicle used in the deadly attack more than six weeks earlier, law enforcement…
Nation Jan 03 New Orleans inching toward normalcy while mourning New Year's rampage victims Street performers and football fans returned to New Orleans streets as the city inched back toward normalcy while mourning victims of the deadly New Year's rampage in which an Army veteran plowed a pickup truck into revelers.
Politics Jan 02 WATCH: FBI says driver responsible for deadly New Orleans rampage acted alone in act of 'terrorism' Christopher Raia, deputy assistant director of the FBI's counterterrorism division, said Thursday that the evidence now shows that Shamsud-Din Jabbar was solely responsible for the attack and professed allegiance to the Islamic State.