Do community efforts to reduce street violence work? By Mark Obbie Photographs by Dean Majd Reporting from Baton Rouge, La. Headway is an initiative from The New York Times exploring the world’s ...

A new SporTran bus shelter in Shreveport has been dedicated in honor of Petrina Lavette Gay-Jenkins, a dedicated advocate for ...

A special event was held Wednesday, May 28 to dedicate a bus stop in honor of a woman who made significant contributions to ...

Citizens in one part of Abbeville are tired of the youth in the streets and now they want police to do something about this disturbance.

Each week, Louisiana Inspired ... fatally shot a few stoops down the street from House of Faith where his mother is the pastor and started the Silence the Violence Foundation in 2001.

A 16-year-old girl was killed early Sunday morning in a drive-by around 2:00 a.m. on Airline Highway in Reserve Louisiana. St. John the Baptist Sheriff, Michael Tregre, said that 16-year-old ...

LAPLACE, La. — The St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff's Office is investigating a triple shooting in LaPlace that killed two of the victims. The sheriff’s office says it happened Friday night.

ST. LANDRY PARISH, La. — An Opelousas Police Department sergeant ... old Romalis Thomas was involved in an off-duty domestic violence incident outside the Evangeline Downs Racetrack and Casino ...