Louisiana

Authorities say they’ve captured three more of the 10 escapees who broke out of a New Orleans jail.

The audacious feat, one of the biggest jailbreaks in Louisiana history, exploited safety issues in the jail that had previously been cited by federal authorities.

Tra’Von Johnson, 22, was found just a few miles away from the Tangipahoa Parish Jail that he escaped from on Thursday afternoon.

Tra’Von Johnson also escaped the Tangipahoa Parish Jail last year, according to the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office.

The capture of Gary C. Price, 21, means six inmates are still at large and the subject of a manhunt by more than 200 law enforcement personnel.

The state police superintendent said he believes they could be captured soon.

Officials in New Orleans announced 10 people broke out of an Orleans Parish jail early Friday morning. One inmate was captured and 3 officials were suspended.

Officials in New Orleans announced a manhunt after 11 inmates broke out of an Orleans Parish jail early Friday morning.

“The evidence was overwhelming that this woman was a serial fraudster and took advantage of multiple tourists and innocent people,” the Louisiana Attorney General said in a statement.

A mother and daughter are celebrating yet another milestone, having navigated the challenges of a kidney transplant and nursing school side by side.

Nearly two years after the successful transplant, the Louisiana mother and daughter shared another journey. Donning white caps and gowns, they walked across the stage together in Baton Rouge and graduated from nursing school.

Two-year-old Preston Ordone, known on TikTok as the “Okay Baby,” died in a car crash Thursday, according to Louisiana State Police.

A federal judge in Louisiana on Friday said that a 2-year-old U.S. citizen appears to have been deported with her mother to Honduras with no meaningful due process.

The U.S. shrimp industry is eager for tariffs, which would raise the price of the foreign shrimp that force shrimpers to slash their prices.

Four states — Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Oklahoma — specifically authorize execution by nitrogen hypoxia

Hayden Haynes, the chief of staff to Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and one of the most powerful aides on Capitol Hill, was arrested early Wednesday morning for drunken driving after his car struck a Capitol vehicle, two law enforcement sources told NBC News. The incident was also confirmed by Johnson’s office.

Each year, along with Louisiana residents, more than a million visitors travel to New Orleans to partake in the city’s world-famous Carnival celebrations.

The U.S. Forest Service has terminated $75 million awarded to the Arbor Day Foundation to help disadvantaged communities plant trees.

More than three years before a Louisiana woman was arrested last week in the death of a TV reporter in New Orleans to cover the Super Bowl, a man visiting the city from out of state accused the woman, Danette Colbert, of drugging him, robbing his savings and leaving him for dead.

Bourbon Street, the site of a deadly New Year’s Day attack, is closed to traffic at night, one of many measures intended to keep visitors safe, city officials said.