Louisiana

The start of an ambitious restoration of St. Louis Cathedral in the French Quarter has been delayed by a few months as project leaders worked to raise money and gather additional historic and building data. But church officials now expect the project to get underway in earnest next year. Later...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WVUE) - Baton Rouge Police Traffic Homicide detectives have arrested a woman in connection with a crash that killed an LSU student and her fiancé near the Baton Rouge campus early Sunday (Oct. 18), officials said. Mia Camille Dawson, 20, was booked into East Baton Rouge...

BATON ROUGE - A woman was arrested for allegedly putting lighter fluid on her estranged husband and another person before trying to set the pair on fire. Arrest documents say Chrishunda Harris went to a home along North Street on Feb. 24 and told the two, "Imma kill both you," before spraying them with lighter fluid. Documents said the lighter that was in her hand failed to ignite.

Gypsy Rose Blanchard Accused of Sideswiping Driver in Louisiana Crash

A New Orleans Police Department patrol officer turned himself in Saturday morning after deputies say he pulled his department-issued firearm on his roommate during an argument at his Slidell home earlier this month. Derrick Burmaster, 47, was booked at the St. Tammany Parish Correctional Center on one count of aggravated assault with a firearm.

A "for lease" sign hangs in the colonnade outside Nawlins' Sports in the French Market District. The owner, Michael "Mike" Lester, doesn't understand why. It's true that business hasn't been great at the sports apparel store since the Covid-19 pandemic, he said. Since then, there's been Trump's tariffs, Decatur Street construction, and the Saints’ poor performance.

BATON ROUGE — Deputies with the East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office deployed pepper balls on crowds following LSU's football game to break up several fights that had broken out in the area on Saturday. According to the sheriff's office, EBRSO, along with numerous other law enforcement agencies, was requested...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A Baton Rouge-area family celebrated a seven-year-old’s birthday at the McDonald’s parking lot where she was born. Bruce and Maria Newman were planning to have their daughter, Olivia, at Woman’s Hospital. Olivia arrived earlier than expected. “We were at this very McDonald’s...

A Jefferson Parish jury convicted 24-year-old Jakobe Odoms of second-degree murder in the June 2022 shooting death of Larry Miller, a 54-year-old retired U.S. Army servicemember and Avondale shipyard worker who was killed at his Harvey apartment. Jurors also found Odoms guilty of attempted aggravated assault with a firearm after he pointed a pistol at Miller's mother during the same encounter.

When Louisiana’s Medicaid contract with Healthy Blue ends on December 31, 216 jobs at Elevance Health’s Metairie office end with it. Elevance filed a layoff notice with the state on September 15, and the cuts take effect December 31, 2026. The company is leaving Louisiana’s Medicaid business after serving it since 2012. The same date... The post Elevance Health filed notice of 216 layoffs in Metairie effective Dec. 31 appeared first on The Financial Wire .