Matt Bruce

Last year, the docket of one section of criminal court in New Orleans grew so backlogged and bloated that a local judge compared it to a failed organ in critical need of triage.

The prosecution of the former Orleans Parish sheriff has quickly become a hot potato among the criminal judges.

Updated A second New Orleans criminal court judge has stepped aside from ex-Orleans Parish sheriff Susan Hutson's public misconduct case

Gov. Landry signed both into law last week.

It's shaping up to be an unusual game of musical chairs in the New Orleans criminal courthouse as the dozen sitting district judges jockey in an election year for three fewer seats.

The shooting that spilled out into the busy North Claiborne Avenue corridor stemmed from a beef over 10 grams of marijuana, prosecutors said in court this week.

Updated Michael Garcia, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran described by police as a bystander killed in the crossfire of an April shootout, was

Shooting stemmed from an altercation involving a victim and a woman

Matt Bruce Sriracha is a spicy chili sauce that has exploded in popularity over the past 20 years.

Melvin Phillip Emde was facing sexual misconduct charges in North Carolina when he and his son, Seth Emde, devised a scheme to fake his drowning death in the Mississippi River in St. Charles Parish, federal authorities allege.