New Orleans police officials say there will be a heightened security zone in the French Quarter similar to what was ...

The man who barricaded himself inside his Algiers home Thursday morning, prompting a standoff with the New Orleans Police Department's SWAT team, was wanted in connection with an armed ...

Stepped-up security measures are now in place in New Orleans ahead of the big Mardi Gras celebration. Public safety officials spent the day installing concrete barricades and wedge barriers along St.

Baton Rouge judge Eboni Johnson Rose found the former officer guilty of a lesser count, later acquitted him, then an appeals ...