A Louisiana man was freed on bail after nearly 30 years on death row following forensic evidence in his murder conviction ...

NEW ORLEANS -- A Louisiana man who spent nearly three decades on death row has been released on bail Wednesday after his ...

Calvin Duncan is an innocent man who spent nearly 30 years of his life imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. He used this ...

Calvin Duncan was cleared of murder after he became a legal authority in prison. In New Orleans, his campaign for clerk of ...

The former Louisiana House speaker was accused of stealing a rare artifact that had gone missing from the state capitol.

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The context: Tyler was part of a group of Black students in Louisiana bussed to a formerly all-white high school under court ...

Louisiana lawmakers will soon be able to demand citizens remove internet posts containing the officials’ personal information ...

U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick, of Baton Rouge, dismissed Landor’s case as moot since he had been released from prison a few weeks after his dreadlocks were shorn. She also found that the law did not ...

Calvin Duncan, who was wrongfully convicted of murder 40 years ago and sentenced to life in prison, was elected clerk of ...

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