A metal refinery is under heightened scrutiny from state regulators after it unlawfully discharged industrial waste into ...

Civil rights advocates say a Honduran man is being held illegally at Louisiana State Penitentiary’s new immigration detention ...

The entire U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeal will weigh the legality of Louisiana’s law that requires the Ten Commandments to ...

An LSU student who was arrested after speaking out of turn at a public meeting alleges police discriminated against her for ...

Some say that the incident is yet another glimpse of the tense climate experienced on local and national campuses by people ...

Tulane University terminated an academic director this summer after the syllabus she’d helped create for an infectious ...

A federal judge said Kilmar Abrego Garcia can proceed with his claim that human smuggling charges filed against him are in ...

Ruth maintains ProPublica’s Nursing Home Inspect database and has reported and built interactive stories and databases on topics including homelessness, political nonprofits and ad technology. She ...

It’s downright mystifying at times the lengths some officials will go to paint a rosy picture in the most dire circumstances.

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Santa Cruz also assembled a first-of-its-kind database of county prosecutor memos detailing fatal police encounters. Nicole ...

A company headquartered in Houston will build its first industrial drone manufacturing facility in the United States in ...