John Simerman

Federal prosecutors place attorneys Vanessa Motta and Jason Giles near the center of a criminal scheme that they say led to the murder of a federal witness, Cornelius Garrison.

Mardi Gras has been deemed the highest threat level under the Department of Homeland Security's Special Event Assessment Rating system for the first time, in response to the Jan. 1 vehicle attack on Bourbon Street that killed 14. Some fear a loss of local autonomy over the city's signature annual event.

Here's more about the former NYC police chief and how he might help after the deadly New Year's Day attack on Bourbon Street.

A disbarred New Orleans attorney dropped his opposition to remaining jailed before trial in a blockbuster federal staged-crash case. Sean Alfortish is accused of helping orchestrate staged wrecks with 18-wheelers and of trying to buy off a federal witness to silence him. The witness, Cornelius Garrison, was gunned down in 2020.

William Bratton once ran the New York City and Los Angeles police forces. Now he's been hired to help New Orleans better security after last week's massacre on Bourbon Street.

New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell's administration has joined Attorney General Liz Murrill in asking a federal judge to rule on a motion to end the long-running consent decree over the city's police force.

An attorney for a man accused of killing a federal witness in New Orleans in 2020 said his client, Ryan "Red" Harris, will plead guilty this week in a deal with prosecutors.

After 12 years under a sprawling, court-enforced reform agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice, the plan is a major step toward independence.

Ryan "Red" Harris pleaded guilty to the killing of a federal witness, Cornelius Garrison, in 2020 to silence him over his cooperation in a major federal investigation into staged crashes into big rig trucks in New Orleans.

A federal judge on Friday rejected a plea by Len Davis, a notoriously corrupt former New Orleans police officer, to remain on death row for the killing of Kim Groves in 1994. Davis was one of two federal death row prisoners to challenge President Joe Biden's decision to commute 37 of 40 federal death sentences.