The agency later said he was captured in the New Orleans East area of the city. On Tuesday, May 20, at 7:53 p.m., the state police posted to social media that a fifth inmate, Corey Boyd, 19, was ...

New Orleans Sheriff Susan Hutson faces criticism and suspends her re-election campaign after a jailbreak exposes staffing and ethical issues at Orleans Parish Prison.

On June 9, Mr. Groves’s girlfriend, Darriana Burton, 28, of New Orleans, was arrested on a felony charge of conspiracy to commit simple escape in connection with the jailbreak, the authorities said.

Five of the 10 men who escaped from a New Orleans jail through a hole behind a toilet on Friday are still missing. Authorities believe they had help from the inside and made an arrest on Tuesday.

The FBI is investigating the attack in New Orleans as an “act of terrorism” and have identified the suspect who rammed a pickup truck into a crowd during New Year’s celebrations.

Local Crime & Public Safety Two Israeli Embassy staffers killed in shooting near Jewish Museum in D.C. Israeli officials named the victims as Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim. Police said a ...

Yaron Lischinsky, 28, and Sarah Milgrim were fatally shot in the street as they left the American Jewish Committee's ACCESS Young Diplomats Reception just after 9 p.m. in Washington, DC.