Nation Nov 17 Parole granted to inmate who played key role in juvenile detention debate Montgomery, 75, was convicted in the 1963 killing of East Baton Rouge sheriff’s deputy Charles Hurt, who caught him skipping school. He was 17 at the time.
Nation Sep 15 Nicholas crawls into Louisiana from Texas, dumping rain Nicholas has weakened into a tropical depression as it crawls across southern Louisiana, unleashing heavy rain across the coasts of Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle. It's unwelcome weather for survivors of Hurricane Ida, which destroyed thousands of rooftops now…
Nation Sep 03 WATCH: New Orleans mayor gives update on Hurricane Ida’s impact Sheriff's deputies from outside the city warned people returning in Ida's aftermath to come equipped like survivalists because of the lack of basic services.
Nation Sep 03 In Ida’s miserable wake, New Orleans to get power next week Utility officials say power should be restored to almost all of New Orleans by Wednesday. Entergy said on Friday that not every customer will have power back in the city. Customers with damage where power enters their home will need…
Nation Aug 31 Hurricane Ida leaves no power, no flights, scant drinking water for many Ida ravaged the region's power grid, leaving all of New Orleans and hundreds of thousands of other Louisiana residents in the dark with no clear timeline on when the electricity would come back on.
Nation Aug 30 Hurricane Ida traps Louisianans, shatters the power grid A fearsome Hurricane Ida has left scores of coastal Louisiana residents trapped by floodwaters and pleading to be rescued, while making a shambles of the electrical grid across a wide swath of the state in the sweltering, late-summer heat.
Nation Aug 30 WATCH: News Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell holds briefing after Hurricane Ida slams region A fearsome Hurricane Ida has left scores of coastal Louisiana residents trapped by floodwaters and pleading to be rescued, while making a shambles of the electrical grid across a wide swath of the state in the late-summer heat.
Nation Aug 28 Live Map: Track the path of Hurricane Ida Rescuers set out in hundreds of boats and helicopters to reach people trapped by floodwaters and utility crews mobilized Monday after a furious Hurricane Ida swamped the Louisiana coast and made a shambles of the electrical grid.
Nation Jul 25 Official: 1960s civil rights activist Robert Moses has died Robert Parris Moses, a civil rights activist who endured beatings and jail while leading black voter registration drives in the American South during the 1960s and later helped improve minority education in math, has died. He was 86.
Nation Jul 05 Search back on at South Florida condo after demolition Rescuers were given the all-clear to resume work looking for victims at a collapsed South Florida condo building after demolition crews set off a string of explosives that brought down the last of the building in a plume of dust.