The high school senior at Ascension Episcopal planned to attend Sewanee in the fall. She was set to graduate high school in just three weeks.

Ryan Johnson was in the mall's food court with a friend when the shots rang out, he told WWL. “I'm grateful to be alive," he told the outlet. "God's got me.” Johnson said he and a small group of others ran into a store for cover after hearing the shots. "I was kind of in shock," he said.

Louisiana police say a podcast helped them solve the decades-old killing of a 16-year-old girl and announced Friday that four men now face criminal charges in connection with her rape and murder. In 1982,

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Martha Odom was identified as the person killed in the Mall of Louisiana shooting

Law enforcement officials and Gov. Jeff Landry on Friday morning announced a press conference to share details in the case, it has been moved to 2 p.m. All updates from that press conference will be available on TheAdvocate.com and in this story.

After eight kids were murdered in Shreveport earlier this week, two more shootings occurred in the state. What the hell is going on?

The Louisiana GOP has passed a bill veliminating Calvin Duncan's position after he was duly elected, mainly at the behest of the Governor.