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 ...

A Minnesota man has pleaded guilty to attempting to join the Islamic State group. Abdisatar Ahmed Hassan changed his plea ...

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

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

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 ...

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

James Comey’s son-in-law resigned as a federal prosecutor minutes after the former FBI director was indicted Thursday.

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.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The New Orleans Archdiocese on Monday agreed to a $230 million proposed settlement for survivors of clergy sexual abuse, attorneys for some of the survivors said Monday. The ...