Minutes apart, courts in the neighboring states of Louisiana and Texas each stopped upcoming executions, one on Thursday and ...

The U.S. measles outbreak so far has claimed the life of one child, and infected at least 222 people, 33 of whom were ...

A Texas appeals court has halted the execution of a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row and had been set to die ...

A Louisiana man has been sentenced to 21 years in a federal prison Thursday for trafficking meth through East Texas. Darren ...

SMITH COUNTY, Texas (KLTV) - A United States district judge sentenced a Louisiana man to over to just over 21 years in prison ...

A man accused of shooting a Southern University student inside of a dorm on campus is behind bars after authorities located him in Texas.

Hundreds of civilians are believed to have died while fleeing east to Louisiana during the Texas Revolution 189 years ago.

A Texas woman died in Natchitoches Parish Wednesday afternoon in a two-vehicle crash on Interstate 49, according to Louisiana ...

A Louisiana woman has pleaded not guilty to a felony after allegedly getting abortion pills from a New York doctor and giving ...

In nearly simultaneous decisions, courts in two U.S. states on Tuesday blocked the imminent executions of death row inmates. The highest court in Texas issued a stay of execution for David Leonard ...