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Two people are killed and nine others are injured in two shooting incidents near a parade route in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
2024-11-17

Hurricane Francine makes landfall in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, United States, as a Category 2 hurricane.
2024-09-11

Following a multi-state manhunt in the United States, Corey Harrison, the last of four men who escaped from a Mississippi jail last month, is taken into custody, according to authorities. Previously, two escapees were found dead in Carthage, Mississippi, and New Orleans, Louisiana, respectively, while another was captured in Texas.
2023-05-4

The World Meteorological Organization announces that Hurricane Ida will be retired from the list of Atlantic hurricane names after causing $75 billion in damage in the U.S. and killing 55 people in Louisiana, making Ida the 12th hurricane beginning with the letter I to do so. Ida will be replaced by Imani for the 2027 season.
2022-04-27

American pipeline operator Williams Partners has agreed to sell an olefins plant in Louisiana to Canadian chemical company Nova Chemicals for $2.1 billion.
2017-04-17

Multiple tornadoes tear through New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and other parts of southeastern Louisiana, injuring at least 20 people; no deaths have been reported. The severe weather also delivers heavy rain and hail in Mississippi and Alabama.
2017-02-7

The governors of the U.S. states of Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin say they will not accept Syrian refugees in response to the Islamic terror attacks in Paris. Twenty-three of the 24 governors are Republican with the other being Democrat (New Hampshire).
2015-11-16

The U.S. Court of Appeals in New Orleans, Louisiana, in a 2-1 decision, upholds a lower court’s injunction that blocks implementation of an Executive order to shield from deportation millions of undocumented immigrants who entered the United States as children. The White House is considering an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
2015-11-9

Nineteen people are injured during a shooting at a Mother's Day parade in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
2013-05-12

The United States National Hurricane Center issues hurricane warnings for the states of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. A state of emergency is in effect in these four areas.
2012-08-26