That was more than three times the national average of 359.1. Louisiana's violent crime rate last year was 487.5 per 100,000 residents, the FBI data shows. Yes, but: Crime continues to trend down in ...

New details released by the FBI director offered the first hint of a motive behind the shooting that killed an ICE detainee ...

An international cybercrime group is claiming responsibility for hacking the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office and holding its ...

Last month, Trump deployed the National Guard to Washington, D.C., and he has also repeatedly threatened to send troops to ...

New Orleans has long worked well with other agencies to fight crime, but our edtorial board has major concerns over President ...

Convicted killer Derrick Groves remains at large four months after the New Orleans jailbreak, one of the longest runs in American history.

Mayor LaToya Cantrell is accused of fraud stemming from an alleged relationship with her former bodyguard Jeffrey Vappie.

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — The results of two recent operations focused on missing and endangered children and sexual offenders, have been released. Officials with the U.S. Marshals Office say the ...

Cantrell and Vappie pleaded not guilty last week to counts stemming from an Aug. 15 grand jury indictment that included 18 ...

The decision comes two weeks after the archdiocese agreed to a settlement for survivors of clergy sexual abuse.

When New Orleans schools reopened after Katrina, most of the city's educators didn't get their jobs back. Instead, they were ...