These coastal Louisiana camps lost power when their utility pulled out. Others could be next.

What happens when an electric utility abandons a community? Camp owners in coastal Terrebonne Parish are finding out.

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A Louisiana justice voted on a challenge to a law he helped write. Should he have stepped aside?

They newly-elected Louisiana Supreme Court justice helped kill the challenge in a 4-3 ruling last March. The decision by Cade Cole, a former state tax judge, raises ethics questions.

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LSU football player Javien Toviano asks to block suspension over Title IX case, records show

The previously-unreported Title IX probe ended with LSU suspending the football player after finding him responsible last fall for "sexual exploitation" of a former girlfriend, according to his lawsuit.

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Oystermen grieve Honduran deckhand who drowned fleeing feds during Louisiana immigration sweeps

Walter Francisco Cerrato Cabrera drowned in his white shrimp boots after 20 years working on oyster boats around Hopedale. He was 48. “They’re all good people, really good people,” said a longtime oys...

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Inside the chaotic 24 hours after New Orleans terror attack: New details revealed for first time

Jeff Landry was asleep in a French Quarter hotel when his phone lit up with a call from Mayor LaToya Cantrell in the early morning hours of January 1, 2025. "This can't be good," he thought.  O...

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Citizens, permit holders detained in New Orleans immigration sweeps, attorneys and advocates say

"They’re not focusing on particular people, they're focusing on particular traits," said attorney Homero López, a former immigration judge. "Those traits tend to be physical in nature.”

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How a mother accused of abuse sparked a political uproar inside Louisiana’s only family court

Child abuse allegations, misconduct complaints, unusual probes, recusals: A Baton Rouge custody case has prompted an unusual clash among judges – and now politicians are involved.

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Louisiana colleges have started paying athletes millions. They won’t say who gets how much.

College sports powerhouses have guarded athlete salary records from the public and their competitors, blocking open records requests.

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Hurricane-prone New Orleans is lacking trees. They could help with rising heat.

A contractor cut down 107 trees in New Orleans that were planted by a nonprofit. Here's why it's emblematic of larger challenges in the fight against extreme heat.

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Pope Leo XIV names next Archbishop of New Orleans, a NJ bishop who spent years at Vatican

The 50-year-old New Jersey native will succeed Archbishop Gregory Aymond, who submitted his retirement to the Vatican last fall but offered to stay on until the bankruptcy is resolved.

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In Louisiana, heat-related deaths have soared. The quiet disaster is ‘going to get worse.’

Extreme heat is a silent threat, one that experts warn could become more deadly as temperatures continue to rise.

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Ed Orgeron's attempt to change $8 million divorce ruling denied by Louisiana Supreme Court

The former LSU football coach asked the court to rehear his case and reverse their decision to award his ex-wife more than $8 million.

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Louisiana Supreme Court rules that Ed Orgeron's ex-wife deserves $8 million from LSU buyout

The state's high court said Kelly Orgeron deserves half of the former LSU coach's $17 million buyout.

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Inside the 'dysfunctional' New Orleans court plagued by murder case delays: 'Like the Wild West'

Judges clocking out before noon. Lost evidence. A request for a delay in a murder case so a lawyer could attend a Mardi Gras ball. Inside Orleans Parish Criminal District Court, hearings and trial da...

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State chipping away at SCOTUS ruling that outlawed death sentences for juvenile offenders

Dale Dwayne Craig was 17 -- a week shy of his 18th birthday -- when he shot and killing an LSU freshman at point-blank range in 1992. The state wants to get his execution sentence restored, despite a ...

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Photos: Hurricane Katrina then & now from Times-Picayune staff photographers

Twenty years ago, Hurricane Katrina and the levee failures swallowed New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, leaving behind ruin that stunned the world. Our photographers were there — in boats,

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Hospitalized with postpartum depression, how a Louisiana mom learned 'it's O.K. to talk about it'

“A lot of times, people are like, ‘I don’t want to talk about it because motherhood is supposed to be all peaches and cream and roses,’” she said. “But like anything, it takes time, it takes work, it ...

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They came to rebuild New Orleans after Katrina. Under Trump, ICE is trying to deport them.

Two cousins came from Guatemala to rebuild New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Twenty years later they're in Louisiana ICE detention, awaiting deportation.

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Federal grand jury indicts New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell after years-long investigation

A federal grand jury has indicted New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell.

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Twenty Years After the Storm

What home meant before, and after, Hurricane Katrina

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Louisiana in talks with Trump to run immigration jail inside Angola, sources say

Kristi Noem recently said she was having conversations with other Republican governors about opening facilities in their states modeled after "Alligator Alcatraz." But the potential immigration locku...

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Inside a New Orleans mother's 6-year wait for justice in son's murder: 'Anything to end this'

Lurline LaBeaud-Duncan waited more than five agonizing years for justice after the murder of her son, Gregory Heisser III, and his fiancée in 2018. Here’s a look at the case, from start to finish.

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Murder cases in New Orleans take longer to resolve than almost anywhere in the country

New Orleans murder cases take nearly three years, on average, to close its cases from arrest to resolution. The painstaking delays keep families of victims back to the courtroom, leading to frustratio...

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Ed Orgeron fights back against Louisiana Supreme Court ruling that he owes ex-wife $8 million

Ed Orgeron's lawyers warned that the ruling will have "absurd and unjust consequences with wide-ranging implications."

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LSU 'evaluating' arena project after developer indictment

After Oak View Group CEO Timothy Leiweke was indicted Wednesday, LSU Athletics officials are evaluating how the charges might impact the project in Baton Rouge.

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Finalist for LSU arena project indicted in federal case saying he rigged bids at UT Austin

LSU had previously said they did not plan to use a public bid process to build their new arena.

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Louisiana Supreme Court rules that Ed Orgeron's ex-wife deserves $8 million from LSU buyout

The state's high court said Kelly Orgeron deserves half of the former LSU coach's $17 million buyout.

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AG Liz Murrill asks Louisiana Supreme Court to speed up death penalty cases

"Victims’ family members are left...waiting for finality for decades," Murrill said.

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The Orleans Parish jail abandoned its high security unit. Years of violence, trouble followed.

Most jails segregate their most problematic detainees. The New Orleans jail abandoned that years ago.

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