Kevin McGill

Members of the FBI walk around Bourbon Street during the investigation of a truck fatally crashing into pedestrians on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter in New Orleans, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton)

FBI says driver in New Orleans rampage acted alone and was ‘100%’ inspired by Islamic State group

January 2, 2025 at 9:41 p.m.

The U.S. Army veteran who drove a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year’s revelers acted alone, the FBI said Thursday, reversing its position from a day earlier that he likely...

Emergency services attend the scene on Bourbon Street after a vehicle drove into a crowd on New Orleans' Canal and Bourbon Street on Jan. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Driver rams into New Year’s revelers in New Orleans, killing at least 15

January 1, 2025 at 5:42 p.m.

A driver wrought carnage on New Orleans' famed French Quarter early on New Year's Day, killing 15 people as he steered around a police blockade and rammed a pickup truck...

FILE – A copy of the Ten Commandments is posted along with other historical documents in a hallway of the Georgia Capitol, June 20, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)

Federal judge blocks Louisiana law that requires classrooms to display Ten Commandments

November 12, 2024 at 3:30 p.m.

A new Louisiana requirement that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public classroom by Jan. 1 was temporarily blocked Tuesday by a federal judge who said the law is...

Former NFL quarterback Brett Favre speaks with reporters prior to his induction to the Mississippi Hall of Fame in Jackson, Miss., on Aug. 1, 2015.

Brett Favre is asking an appeals court to reinstate his defamation lawsuit against Shannon Sharpe

July 9, 2024 at 7:52 a.m.

Lawyers for retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre are asking a federal appeals court to revive a defamation lawsuit Favre filed against a fellow Pro Football Hall of Fame member —...

FILE – Supreme Court is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 25, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Supreme Court orders Louisiana to use congressional map with additional Black district in 2024 vote

May 15, 2024 at 5:00 p.m.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered Louisiana to hold congressional elections in 2024 using a House map with a second mostly Black district, despite a lower-court ruling that called the...

Cardell Hayes enters Orleans Parish Criminal District Court on Sept. 20, 2023, for a hearing regarding his retrial for shooting former NFL star Will Smith. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Man who shot ex-New Orleans Saints star Will Smith receives 25-year prison sentence for manslaughter

April 25, 2024 at 12:59 p.m.

The man who fatally shot retired NFL star Will Smith during a confrontation following a car crash in 2016 received a 25-year prison sentence Thursday in a New Orleans courtroom.

Zach Lemann, curator of animal collections for the Audubon Insectarium, prepares cicadas for eating at the insectarium in New Orleans, April 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Would you like a cicada salad? The monstrous little noisemakers descend on a New Orleans menu

April 19, 2024 at 7:17 a.m.

As the nation prepares for trillions of red-eyed bugs known as periodical cicadas to emerge, it’s worth noting that they’re not just annoying, noisy pests — if prepared properly, they...

FILE – Migrants who crossed the Rio Grande and entered the U.S. from Mexico are lined up for processing by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Sept. 23, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas. A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday, March 19, 2024, lifted a stay on a Texas law that gives police broad powers to arrest migrants suspected of crossing the border illegally, while a legal battle over immigration authority plays out. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Texas immigration ruling puts spotlight on nation’s most conservative federal appeals court

March 20, 2024 at 5:21 p.m.

A federal appeals court based in New Orleans has become a prime destination for conservatives pursuing legal strategies to bolster gun rights, stop abortion or — as was the case...

Lawsuit: US citizen held for skin color, Latino name

August 23, 2019 at 8:18 p.m.

A Honduran-born U.S. citizen says in a federal lawsuit that he was illegally held in a Louisiana jail for days because a sheriff's office wrongly suspected he was in the...

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