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Storms that slammed several Southern states added to the region's recent string of weather-related destruction and death, including that of a Louisiana woman who was nine months pregnant.
On the 1850 U.S. Census, leprosy was listed as a cause of death. Four deaths were recorded from Louisiana. [4] Beginning in 1857, Annual reports from Charity Hospital (New Orleans), indicated that the hospital freely admitted those with leprosy. The large number of cases at Charity Hospital remained unreported to the general public until 1888.
A 65-year-old patient has died of bird flu, Louisiana officials reported on Monday. The patient had underlying conditions and was likely infected by exposure to birds. This is the first death ...
The Louisiana historian Sue Eakin was formerly a Times-Picayune columnist. [55] Bill Minor headed the paper's news bureau in Jackson, Mississippi from 1946 until it closed in 1976. [56] A weekly political column is penned by Robert "Bob" Mann, a Democrat who holds the Douglas Manship Chair of Journalism at Louisiana State University in Baton ...
Louisiana has about 60 prisoners on death row. Landry called the death sentences a "contractual obligation to victims." "I and the Legislature are going to fulfill our commitments," he said.
On May 10, 2019, Ronald Hardin Greene, an unarmed 49-year-old Black man, was killed after being arrested by Louisiana State Police following a high-speed chase outside Monroe, Louisiana. During the arrest, he was stunned, punched, pepper sprayed and placed in a chokehold. [ 1 ]
Charles was first reported as missing from his father's home in Baldwin, Louisiana on October 30, 2020. Prior to going missing, he had started attending a new school. His last known whereabouts before his disappearance, according to his father, were with his friend, 17-year-old Gavin Irvin, and Irvin's mother, Janet, both white, who picked him up from his father's house at around 3 pm while ...
In an effort to resume Louisiana’s death row executions that have been paused for 14 years, lawmakers on Friday advanced a bill that would add the use of nitrogen gas and electrocution as ...