Calcasieu Assistant District Attorney Hope Buford was the only candidate to qualify for the 14th Judicial District Court Division D seat vacated by Judge Robert Wyatt, who retired last year. Attorney ...

Two Baton Rouge judges ascended to higher benches Friday after qualifying unopposed for judicial races, Louisiana Secretary of State records show.

A federal appeals court on Thursday ruled against a federal law requiring young adults to be 21 to buy handguns, finding it ...

A New York doctor was indicted Friday with prescribing a Louisiana girl pills that caused an abortion — seemingly the first ...

The case appears to be the first instance of criminal charges against a doctor accused of sending abortion pills to another ...

The case opens a new front in the battle between states that ban abortion and states that support providing abortion anywhere ...

When the Maine Legislature decided in 2021 to allow anyone to file a lawsuit over child sexual abuse regardless of how long ago it occurred, advocates said the state was ahead of the curve. Maine had ...

A New York doctor was indicted by a grand jury in West Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on Friday for prescribing an abortion pill ...

On Friday, a grand jury in West Baton Rouge, La., returned a felony indictment of New York-based Dr. Margaret Carpenter. Her crime? Providing telehealth abortion services and FDA-approved ...

A New York doctor has been indicted and charged by a grand jury for allegedly prescribing an abortion pill online in ...

A three-judge panel heard oral arguments about a Louisiana law requiring Ten Commandments displays in public classrooms.