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Authorities announced that a fourth inmate has been apprehended after escaping from a New Orleans jail on Friday with 6 other inmates.
The U.S. Justice Department dropped a three-year civil rights investigation of Louisiana State Police on Wednesday.
The Trump Administration has decided to discontinue investigations into civil rights violations by six police departments, including Louisiana State Police, and retract findings of constitutional violations,
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NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The Louisiana House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill that would require immediate alerts of jail escapes to witnesses and nearby law enforcement, less than a week after 10 people broke out of the Orleans Parish jail.
A fourth man was arrested four days after he and nine other inmates at the New Orleans jail broke free and fled, prompting a citywide manhunt and state-led investigations into the jail's operations and the local criminal justice system.
In 2022, a probe was launched to see if state troopers have engaged in a pattern of excessive force and racial discrimination.
State police say a Louisiana lawmaker is facing charges after striking a concrete barrier while allegedly driving impaired with his three children in the vehicle
A couple engaged to be married died in separate crashes hours apart on the same Louisiana road, leaving their young son behind, according to family and law enforcement.
"We have had some leads in other states, unfortunately, those leads did not pan out," said state police leaders.
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MARRERO, La. (WVUE) - State Rep. Kyle Green Jr. of Marrero was arrested early Wednesday (May 21) after what Louisiana State Police described as a impaired-driving crash with three children in his car.