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The U.S. Justice Department is opening a sweeping civil rights investigation into the Louisiana State Police amid mounting evidence that the agency has a pattern of looking the other way in the face of beatings of mostly Black men,

The answer to the St. George incorporation question, so far, is "money," which should be surprising to exactly no one.

Gov. John Bel Edwards today called a special session of Louisiana’s Legislature to redraw Louisiana’s congressional district maps to include two majority Black districts,

Homicide is down 10% in Baton Rouge so far this year, following a record-breaking surge of violence last year, Chief of Police Murphy Paul Jr. says. 

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards says there was “no excuse” for a video he watched of the deadly arrest of Black motorist Ronald Greene failing to reach prosecutors for another six months.

Behavioral scientists, data experts, journalists and cops are four professions that are being brought together in, of all places, law firms, The Wall Street Journal reports. 

As reported in a Daily Report news alert earlier today, Louisiana lawmakers have asked...

What did Gov. John Bel Edwards know about the deadly 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene by Louisiana State Police and when did he know it?

The incorporation of Central was a major point of discussion in the St. George incorporation trial, and St. George supporters hoped to emulate the parish’s last new city.

A judge has ruled that the incorporation of St. George is “unreasonable” under state law.