The 10 inmates who broke out of a New Orleans jail in a stunning overnight escape last week used electric hair trimmers with multiple clipper blades to help cut their way through the cell walls, a source with direct knowledge of the investigation told CNN.

Nearly a week after 10 inmates opened a faulty cell door inside a city jail and moved the toilet to squeeze through a hole, five remain on the lam. The police superintendent has said most of the fugitives were likely still in the city as more than 200 law enforcement personnel work to find them.

House Speaker Mike Johnson and Majority Leader Steve Scalise spent their time nailing down the final votes needed to pass the legislation. The rest of Louisiana’s six-member House delegation were involved in their own ways.

While federal law requires publicly disclosed monitoring of major pollutants, fence-line communities in Louisiana have long sought data on their exposure to hazardous and likely carcinogenic chemicals like chloroprene and ethylene oxide, which were not subject to these same regulations.

Authorities in Louisiana are looking for an inmate who escaped jail for the second time in a year after a member of the public tipped them off Thursday.

The state Senate remained in session until almost 10:30 pm Wednesday at the insistence of Senate President Cameron Henry, who said immediately afterward that he wanted his chamber to finish its work on contentious car insurance bills. The Senate needs to begin focusing on the annual budget debate next week, Henry, R-Metairie, added.

HOUSTON (Reuters) -U.S. regulators have given Venture Global permission to proceed with construction of its CP2 LNG plant in Louisiana, a FERC document showed on Friday.

House Bill 431, sponsored by Rep. Emily Chenevert, R-Baton Rouge, would change Louisiana’s comparative fault statute, which assigns a percentage of blame to each party in an accident and allows for the recovery of damages in proportion with those percentages.

From the River Parishes running for 120 miles along the Mississippi River to Acadiana (also known as Cajun Country or the French Louisiana region), these are the 15 most beautiful places in Louisiana according to locals.

Another suspect has been arrested in connection with a massive New Orleans jailbreak involving 10 inmates, who pulled off their daring escape earlier this week by slipping out a hole carved behind

ment benefits in Louisiana rose last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department of New jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, increased to 1,793 in the week ending May 17, up from 1,613 the week before, the Labor Department said.

Louisiana lawmakers learned Wednesday that they will have $139 million more to spend on next year’s budget after a state revenue forecasting panel approved updated projections.