Louisiana

The coronavirus pandemic claimed its youngest victim yet in Louisiana on Monday — a baby born prematurely after her mother contracted the disease and was put on a ventilator.

A Louisiana church attracted more than 1,800 people to their Sunday service, despite warnings from health officials to practice social distancing.

Officials with a journalism organization announced that a person who attended a conference in New Orleans has tested positive for the coronavirus.

A man was struck and killed by a Mardi Gras float during a raucous Saturday night street parade in New Orleans, becoming the second person in days killed along a parade route during this year's Carnival season, authorities said.

Officials in New Orleans say the body of a person killed in the Hard Rock Hotel collapse that happened in 2019 has been exposed, after it was initially concealed by a tarp.

The crowd also broke into chants of “USA, USA.”

A Louisiana man has been arrested and charged with holding a gun to the head of his 9-year-old son because he was angry with the boy for drinking the last Dr. Pepper in the house.

After her daughter was killed in 2016, Theresa Tillman went back to school to get her degree and find justice for the 19-year-old college student.

Black medical students at Tulane University shared a powerful message about resilience and a better future when they posed for a photo in front of former slave quarters at a Louisiana plantation.

At least one person was killed Monday as strong storms left a trail of smashed buildings, splintered trees and downed power lines in Louisiana, and forecasters said more states were in the bullseye.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana is suing the state of California over its decision to ban the import and sale of alligator products, saying the ban will hurt an important Louisiana industry and ultimately could hurt the state’s wetlands.

Looks like a police horse in Louisiana has made the "nice list" this holiday season.

New Orleans police say 11 people were hit in an early morning shooting on the edge of the city’s famed French Quarter.

A five-pound Chihuahua managed to reverse its owner’s SUV onto a four-lane highway in Slidell, Louisiana.