Amanda Watford (formerly Hernández) covers criminal justice for Stateline. She has reported for both national and local ...

Mixed messages are coming from the Department of Children and Families Services about the reorganization of its child abuse ...

The number of state employees in Louisiana increased 5.4% from 2021 through 2024, but staffing shortages remain across most ...

Keith Ezidore had been sentenced to life in prison in 1993 for the stabbing death of  businessman Ralph Flowers in St. James ...

Cary López Alvarado, of Hawthorne, California, was nine months pregnant when she was arrested by immigration officials ...

Four attorneys who used to lead local public defender offices are suing the Louisiana government and the state public ...

Members of the committee tasked with finding LSU’s next president have been asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement that ...

Rising cost commitments for its expanding workforce, according to ULL's interim president, are part of the reason the ...

Thousands of people gathered at 10 events across Louisiana as part of Saturday’s national No Kings movement to protest ...

Shreveport,  has asked the Louisiana Board of Ethics to dismiss more than $10,700 in fines he faces for failing to properly ...

Louisiana officials increased the construction budget this week for a new 80-bed regional jail dedicated exclusively to ...

Gwen reports on health care in Mississippi, focusing on hospitals, public health, access to care and the intersections of ...