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Wildlife rehabilitators are decontaminating dozens of alligators, brushing their teeth and scrubbing their hides in the weeks after a pipeline rupture dumped 300,000 gallons of diesel fuel into a New Orleans area wetland.

Luck has eluded Texas Democrats for almost three straight cycles, even as other Republican states have occasionally embraced the other party.

A driver accused in a road rage shooting back in November also waved his gun while weaving in and out of traffic in a separate incident the day prior, according to the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office.

A federal court has again rejected a Louisiana pastor's lawsuit over Gov. John Bel Edwards' past COVID-19 restrictions on public gatherings.

(Except not really.) (Unless they actually happen.)

In the last five years, from 2017 through 2021, the total cost of these billion-dollar disasters has been $742 billion, according to NOAA.

Damage wrought by Hurricane Ida in the U.S. state of Louisiana and the flash floods that hit Europe last summer have helped make 2021 one of the most expensive years for natural disasters.

Nearly 130 years later, Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards granted a posthumous pardon to Homer Plessy.

Homer Plessy's arrest 130 years ago led to one of the most criticised Supreme Court decisions in US history.

Plessy was arrested trying to board a "whites-only" train car. The Supreme Court's decision in Plessy v. Ferguson ushered in an era of laws that kept schools, housing and other venues segregated.

Plessy's refusal in 1892 to leave a Whites-only railcar led the Supreme Court to uphold the principle of racial segregation.

Louisiana’s governor has pardoned the Black man whose 1892 arrest for refusing to leave an all-white railroad car led to the ruling that cemented “separate but equal” into U.S. law for half a century.

Deputies in Louisiana made a grim discovery Thursday after a woman called about her missing husband.

A winter storm is blanketing streets in and around the nation's capital, closing government offices and schools and grounding the president's helicopter. (Jan. 3)

A road rage shooting suspect who was on the run for nearly a month was captured Wednesday in Louisiana, according to the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office.

The U.S. Marshals Service New Orleans Task Force has recovered five missing teenagers and arrested 30 sex offenders.

An online fundraising campaign is raising money for a family that lost three siblings in a crash one week before Christmas.

Dylan Hopkins broke the Independence Bowl record for completion percentage in wind and driving rain, connecting on 19 of 23 passes for 189 yards and three touchdowns in UAB’s 31-28 victory over No. 12 BYU on Saturday.

“Oh my goodness, this is just heartbreaking.”

"I have zero recollection of the video and the disturbing language used during it," the judge told Louisiana news station KLFY News 10.

The man was arrested on Dec. 13.

Ronald Greene’s mother chastised Louisiana state lawmakers Monday for not acting quickly enough to hold state troopers accountable for her son’s deadly 2019 arrest, saying the Black motorist’s death at the end of a high-speed chase was a “murder” that's been covered up, sugarcoated and mired in bureaucracy.

A technology that keeps Norway's fjords ice-free in winter could help prevent devastating hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico in the future.

Jurors heard a 911 recording of a man’s threats and a woman’s pleas for her life, then convicted the man of attempted manslaughter and endangering her two children during a domestic abuse incident, authorities in Louisiana said. The call had gone through when Wade Ostarly, 39, of Covington, grabbed and pocketed the woman’s phone early Aug. 26, 2019, District Attorney Warren Montgomery said in a news release Friday. The jury convicted Ostarly on Thursday of attempted manslaughter, two counts of domestic abuse aggravated assault with child endangerment and one count each of illegal use of a weapon during a crime of violence and of possessing a firearm after being convicted of domestic abuse battery.

A police officer in Louisiana is accused of using a patrol car while off duty to illegally hunt deer at night without a hunting license, authorities said Wednesday. Javarrea Pouncy’s three companions included a convicted felon who was illegally carrying a firearm and also didn’t have a hunting license, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries said in a news release. It said wildlife agents heard gunfire while patrolling Sunday night and came upon a vehicle spotlighting for deer in an open field on private property.

At least 17 people on board the Norwegian Breakaway tested positive for COVID-19, including one probable case of the omicron variant. The cruise line said that all confirmed cases are asymptomatic.

Insurance companies operating in Louisiana will be charged at least $100 million to pay claims of two failed property insurers who went belly up in Hurricane Ida’s aftermath.

Police said Jonshel Alexander and a man were shot inside a vehicle in New Orleans and she was pronounced dead at the scene.

A former Louisiana sheriff pleaded guilty to a federal bribery charge on Wednesday, weeks after a state jury convicted him of sexually abusing boys. Rodney J. “Jack” Strain, who lost a reelection bid in 2015 after five terms as St. Tammany Parish's sheriff, appeared in court in shackles and an orange prison jumpsuit, news outlets reported. Federal prosecutors dropped 15 other charges when Strain pleaded guilty to a single count of bribery involving federal funds.

An oil tanker hit an offshore oil platform at night off Louisiana because its Turkish operating company didn’t give the ship’s master time to recover from days of sleepless travel, federal investigators have found. The master, or person in charge of sailing the Atina, had traveled from Istanbul and told investigators “he was tired from having no sleep for over 50 hours,” according to a National Transportation Safety Board report made public Tuesday. The crash early Oct. 17, 2020, did an estimated $72.9 million in damage — $72.3 million to the platform SP-57B and the rest to the tanker Atina, the board said.

Job candidates rarely know when hidden artificial intelligence tools are rejecting their resumes or analyzing their video interviews. But a New York City Council bill passed in early November would ban employers from using automated hiring tools unless a yearly bias audit is reported. (Nov. 19)

Montgomery played a key role in the debate over life sentences for juveniles.

In recent years, hundreds of people once destined to spend the rest of their lives in prison after being convicted of crimes as juveniles have gone free.

The I-14 Corridor across Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia will be built primarily by incrementally upgrading existing highways.

The I-14 Corridor across Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia will be built primarily by incrementally upgrading existing highways.

A federal court has declined to lift its stay on the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for businesses with 100 or more workers.

The Louisiana Board of Pardons voted unanimously to pardon the namesake of the U.S. Supreme Court's 1896 "separate but equal" ruling.

The Louisiana Board of Pardons voted unanimously to pardon the namesake of the U.S. Supreme Court's 1896 "separate but equal" ruling.

The American workers allege in the suit that they were being paid $7.25-$9 an hour while white South African workers were paid $11.83.

City officials believe a $3,500 annual payout to young people could help solve the "unbanked" problem plaguing the Big Easy.

A Louisiana board has voted to posthumously clear Plessy's conviction for refusing to leave a whites-only train car in New Orleans in 1892. The governor will have the final say.

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A federal appeals court has temporarily halted the Biden administration’s vaccine requirement for businesses with 100 or more workers.

Ella Conrad's mom started listening to doctors and following the science — going from a QAnon follower to a vaccine advocate for her state.

Faith leaders and activists across the world are increasingly joining the fight against climate change driven by a moral imperative to preserve creation for future generations.

A group of dads showed up at a Louisiana school after 23 students were arrested in a rash of fights.

U.S. governors are taking a seat at the table as international leaders gather in Scotland at a critical moment for global efforts to reduce fossil fuel emissions and slow the planet's temperature rise.

Extreme winds and heavy downpours battered neighborhoods in Texas and Louisiana.

The Fair Fight Political Action Committee says its donation to the RIP Medical Debt nonprofit will benefit residents in 5 Southern states, part of Fair Fight Action's advocacy for Medicaid expansion.

Residents of and around Jean Lafitte, La. say they haven't seen storm damage like this before. And they say the federal government could have done more for them as it did for the city upriver.

The political organization led by prominent Democrat Stacey Abrams is branching out into paying off medical debts.

The UTSA Roadrunners extended their unbeaten streak with a 45-16 road victory over Louisiana Tech on Saturday night.

Running back Sincere McCormick led the way with 113 yards and three touchdowns, as No. 24 UTSA defeated Louisiana Tech Saturday night 45-16.

The film industry and its unions provide guidelines on how to deal safely with prop guns on movie sets.

What to know as the undefeated UTSA Roadrunners travel to face Conference USA opponent Louisiana Tech on Saturday.

Declaring an impasse in contract talks with striking union workers, global spirits producer Heaven Hill said Monday it will start hiring permanent replacement workers for bottling and warehouse operations in Kentucky.

Trump launched a series of insults at Cassidy, declaring "he could not even be elected dog catcher today, the great people curse him."

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"Elections are about winning," Cassidy told "Axios on HBO." adding that if Trump does run, he won't be voting for him.

Once-endangered alligators are thriving in the wild, so Louisiana authorities are proposing a deep cut in the percentage that farmers must return to marshes where their eggs were laid. “Over the past 50 years, alligator nest surveys have increased from an estimate of less than 10,000 in the 1970s and 1980s to well over 60,000 nests in recent years," the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission said in a notice published Wednesday. "This increase in nesting has produced a population that can now be sustained with a much lower farm return rate.”

A former Louisiana State Police trooper has pleaded not guilty to a federal charge in the 2019 beating of a man whose injuries included a broken jaw and broken ribs.

A former Louisiana State Police trooper pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a federal charge in the 2019 video recorded beating of a man whose injuries included a broken jaw and broken ribs. Jacob Brown is charged with “deprivation of rights under color of law” in the beating of Aaron Bowman following a north Louisiana traffic stop. Brown’s September indictment came amid federal scrutiny of other troopers who punched, stunned and dragged another Black motorist, Ronald Greene, before he died in custody.

After Hurricane Ida, many residents are weighing the emotional, cultural, and financial costs of leaving the place they call home.

Gorillas and orangutans at the Audubon Zoo are in the process of getting their first dose.

Crews are working to locate caskets and vaults after powerful winds and rains moved them from their original resting place.

Crews are working to locate caskets and vaults after powerful wind and rain moved them from their original resting place.

In Shreveport, La., near the Texas border, the Hope Medical Group for Women is seeing increased demand after the restrictive law was passed — and after a hurricane impacted other parts of the state.

Authorities say the restoration of a southwest Louisiana island is proving wildly popular with the many species of birds it was rebuilt for.

Residents in Louisiana want to get back to the way life was before the hurricane.

Louisiana is letting men on death row share at least one of their daily meals and enjoy other time together, settling a 2017 lawsuit alleging inhumane conditions.

A woman accused of throwing two of her children into a Louisiana lake has been extradited from Texas to Louisiana, where she faces a murder charge that could send her to jail for life.

The remains found in an alligator’s stomach have been positively identified as those of a man who was attacked and killed in Hurricane Ida floodwaters.

The Biden administration is moving to protect workers and communities from extreme heat.

Authorities in Louisiana have captured a 500-pound alligator with human remains in its stomach that may be linked to a man’s disappearance in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida.

Bands of heavy rain have been pummeling parts of the Alabama Gulf Coast and the Florida Panhandle.

“I think we fared well,” said one official in Matagorda County, where Nicholas made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane early Tuesday morning.

Hurricane Nicholas made landfall early Tuesday morning along the Texas coast before being downgraded to a tropical storm soon after.

Tropical Storm Nicholas has weakened to a tropical depression as it slowed to a crawl over southeastern Texas and southwestern Louisiana as its heavy rains continued to drench the area, maintaining a flood threat.

Tropical Storm Nicholas has weakened to a tropical depression as it slowed to a crawl over southeastern Texas and southwestern Louisiana as its heavy rains continued to drench the area, maintaining a flood threat.

A Louisiana man who is the oldest living World War II veteran in the United States has marked his 112th birthday.

The National Hurricane Center in Miami says Nicholas has strengthened to a Category 1 hurricane ahead of its expected landfall in Texas.

Tropical Storm Nicholas is expected to strengthen as it heads for the Gulf Coast.

At 400 PM CDT (2100 UTC), the center of Post-Tropical Cyclone Nicholas was located near latitude 32.0 North, longitude 92.7 West. The post-tropical cyclone is moving toward the north near 2 mph (4...

Small businesses from Louisiana to Connecticut are facing an uncertain recovery after being walloped by Hurricane Ida and its residual rains and flooding last week.

A swath of the Florida Panhandle was under a tropical storm warning after Tropical Storm Mindy made landfall Wednesday night.

Police in Slidell, Louisiana arrested a man who they say faked a hit-and-run, but his plan was thwarted because it was all recorded on a Tesla’s camera system.

Louisiana health officials are revoking the licenses of seven nursing homes that were evacuated to a warehouse where residents died after Hurricane Ida amid conditions deemed squalid and unsafe.

Police in New Orleans are looking for a 911 dispatcher who is accused of hanging up on people who called for help.

President Joe Biden will visit all three 9/11 memorial sites to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks and pay his respects to the nearly 3,000 people killed that day.

Less than a week after Hurricane Ida battered the Gulf Coast, President Joe Biden walked the streets of a hardhit Louisiana neighborhood on Friday and told residents “I know you’re hurting."

More than 150 animals rescued from Louisiana were transferred to the San Antonio Humane Society. The shelter is at capacity and needs donations, volunteers and fosters to help.

Less than a week after Hurricane Ida battered the Gulf Coast, President Joe Biden walked the streets of a hardhit Louisiana neighborhood on Friday and told local residents, “I know you’re hurting, I know you’re hurting.”.

The San Antonio Food Bank is lending a helping hand to families in need following the wrath of Hurricane Ida.

The deadly, historic floods across the northeastern U.S. on September 1 are an example of the increasing frequency of heavy precipitation events across the country - a phenomenon linked to a warming global climate.

Since Hurricane Ida, life in Louisiana’s Plaquemines Parish is a mix of frustration and a little adventure.

Hurricane Ida may not pack the strong winds it once had when it hit Louisiana, but it’s still dumping an insane amount of rain in its path, including on New York City.

More than 100 cats and dogs that were victims of Hurricane Ida in Louisiana soon may be looking for a permanent home in San Antonio.

President Joe Biden is pledging robust federal help for the Northeastern and Gulf states battered by Hurricane Ida and for Western states beset by wildfires.