NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The New Orleans Police Department can begin winding down its longstanding federal oversight, a judge ruled ...

The US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana ruled on Tuesday that the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) ...

NOPD is now on a two-year exit ramp from a federal consent decree that brought major changes to the department over the past ...

U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan ruled that the NOPD has made enough progress to enter into a so-called “sustainment period,” the final off-ramp for the department to prove its reforms are now ...

After years of federal oversight, the New Orleans Police Department is entering the final phase of the consent decree.

The New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) has taken a critical step toward ending more than a decade of federal oversight ...

Judge Susie Morgan granted the NOPD a two-year sustainment period, signaling the beginning of the end of the consent decree.

Buskers returned to the iconic streets a day after the New Year's Day tragedy. NEW ORLEANS -- The quiet in New Orleans' famous French Quarter early Thursday morning was first cut by crews sweeping ...

The man responsible for a deadly truck attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans has been identified as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old U.S.-born citizen from Texas, the FBI said. He was a U.S ...

At least 14 people have died after a truck rammed through Bourbon Street in New Orleans early on New Year's Day, officials said. (Gerald Herbert/AP) ...

At least three people with New York-area connections were among the victims of the suspected terror attack in New Orleans on New Year’s, family members and others ...