Former Rapides Parish Assistant District Attorney Brian Cespiva will serve the unexpired term of 9th Judicial District Court Judge Patricia Koch after no one else qualified for the Division E seat on ...

Louisiana has been repeatedly accused of holding inmates past their release date. State officials say the problem has been ...

The Louisiana State Supreme Court has accepted an agreement to suspend Niles Haymer from practicing law for a three-year ...

The Louisiana Public Defender Board sided on a 5-4 vote with Chief Public Defender Remy Starns, who decided not to renew the ...

News and notes from the John Deere Classic from Wednesday, including items on Max Homa and Zach Johnson, along with Jackson ...

A woman convicted of second-degree murder in the stabbing death of an 84-year-old Metairie woman was sentenced to life plus ...

Walz appoints Meriel Lester to fill the 7th Judicial District vacancy in Little Falls Lester is an assistant chief in the criminal division of the Stearns County Attorney’s Office.

Baton Rouge judge Eboni Johnson Rose returned to the bench this week after a nearly yearlong hiatus imposed by the Louisiana Supreme Court. On Thursday, her colleagues at the 19th Judicial ...

Judge Lee Faulkner of the 24th Judicial District Court sentenced Omar to the maximum punishment for manslaughter. He noted Omar’s use of duct tape was “particularly heinous.” He said he felt Omar got ...

The Supreme Court delivered a major win to President Donald Trump on Friday in his ongoing war with the federal judiciary, limiting the power of courts to step in and block policies on a ...

Supreme Court limits judges’ ability to block Trump’s birthright citizenship ban Olga Urbina and her son, Ares Webster, protest outside the Supreme Court in May over President Trump’s move ...