James Finn

Prosecutors’ attempts to introduce evidence “resulted in unfortunate and prejudicial media coverage of the upcoming trial that may seriously affect the jury pool,” defense attorneys said.

Prosecutors and defense attorneys are squaring off over which evidence to allow at the August “Operation Sideswipe” trial of two men on murder, fraud and obstruction counts.

In the span of less than a month, Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill indicted New Orleans' outgoing sheriff, threatened to remove eight of the city's leaders from office and won a landmark U.S.

“What we’re talking about is stealing money,” prosecutors countered over their attempts to introduce new evidence.

In a debate that will shape evidence a jury can weigh against New Orleans' former mayor , federal prosecutors and defense attorneys tangled for

When a federal jury convenes in August to weigh the fates of two men charged with murdering a federal witness in a sprawling staged car crash scheme, prosecutors want to peel back the curtain on the bloody hit by grilling one of its orchestrators on the witness stand.

When a federal jury convenes in August to weigh the fates of two men charged with murdering a federal witness in a sprawling staged car crash scheme, prosecutors want to peel back the curtain on the bloody hit by grilling one of its orchestrators on the witness stand.

“We thought the violence would come from within the house, not from another neighbor,” said one resident on the block. Here’s what happened.

A house on Banks Street where a shooting occurred on Saturday, May 23, 2026. Police said a psychiatrist who lives across the street had become