The voice of the Mississippi still sings in New Orleans, a place where umbrellas dance, booze mingles with beignets, the irreverent holds hands with the sacred, and the dead sleep among the living.

In their third walkout, New Orleans nurses say chronic understaffing and violence in the workplace are only getting worse.

A "full-scale search operation" is underway, the sheriff said. The reward for information leading to the arrest of the inmates who escaped from the Orleans Justice Center last week increased to $ ...

Louisiana officials want to overturn the remaining federal desegregation orders in their state. They may find allies in the ...

LOL.” Ten inmates, who may have had help from jail workers, broke out of a New Orleans jail early Friday, escaping through that hole in a cell wall, the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office said.

Seven of 10 inmates who escaped from a New Orleans jail through a hole in a wall behind a toilet remained on the run May 17, as authorities in Louisiana continued a massive manhunt and wondered if ...

OFFERED BY THE FBI. WELL, MORE THAN 24 HOURS LATER, THE NEW ORLEANS MAYOR IS SPEAKING ON THE LAW ENFORCEMENT RESPONSE TO THOSE TEN INMATES ESCAPING THE ORLEANS JUSTICE CENTER. I WANTED TO STOP AND ...

REBUILDING TOGETHER NEW ORLEANS IS HOSTING ITS ANNUAL BUILD AND BOIL EVENT. FOR $40. YOU CAN EAT ALL THE MUDBUGS YOU WANT. YOUR DONATION WILL HELP ART JARRETT MAKE CRITICAL HOME REPAIRS IN NEW ...

Editor's note: Follow updates on the New Orleans jailbreak in USA TODAY's May 20 coverage. Four of 10 inmates who fled a New Orleans jail by climbing through a hole behind a toilet have been ...

A fourth inmate who escaped from a New Orleans jail Friday was captured Monday, as hundreds of local, state and federal authorities scramble to find the ones still on the loose. As of Monday ...

Nearly a dozen inmates escaped from a New Orleans jail on Friday morning, and at least one has been apprehended, according to authorities. New Orleans Police Department Superintendent Anne ...

NEW ORLEANS — For two years, New Orleans police secretly relied on facial recognition technology to scan city streets in search of suspects, a surveillance method without a known precedent in ...