Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams announces a 99-year prison sentence for Roy S. Brown III, who was convicted of sexually abusing a minor. Prosecutors say the sentence is among the most ...

LaToya Cantrell is the first sitting mayor of New Orleans to come under federal indictment. One law professor says it is very unlikely Cantrell will still be in office if or when her trial begins.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell was indicted Friday in what prosecutors called a yearslong scheme to ...

Three New Orleans parents running to replace Council Member Joe Giarrusso laid out their plans for making the district a more ...

A man accused of a double fatal shooting has agreed to plead guilty to manslaughter Thursday, Aug. 14. According to the ...

Williams has defended his office’s discretion as necessary to avoid over-criminalization and to prioritize more serious threats to public safety. And according to New Orleans Police Department data, ...

In 2006, Ari Shapiro reported on how Hurricane Katrina made an already broken public defender system in New Orleans worse.

Hurricane Katrina exposed longstanding flaws in the New Orleans criminal justice system. In the 20 years since, there has been dramatic change in the public defender office.

New Orleans clerk of court staff have been digging ankle-deep through mounds of landfill trash to salvage court records that the city erroneously discarded ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams is voicing opposition to a proposed state law that would allow Louisiana residents 18 and older to carry firearms, permitted or ...