Angola News

A special investigation has uncovered more than 1,000 Louisiana state employees who collect full pay and benefits, despite the fact that they have out-of-state addresses.

Perhaps no venue provokes as much fear as "The Farm," except maybe Death Valley.

"For those who live out their lives there, Angola is the world. Eighteen thousand acres of land elbow out into the brown current of the Mississippi.

West Feliciana Parish deputies issued misdemeanor summonses to seven people, including a Louisiana State Penitentiary assistant warden, during an undercover operation earlier this month to investigate suspects attempting to hire a prostitute.

The Jesuit tradition pervades through every facet of Loyola, and the arts are no exception.

No executions are scheduled at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, where 81 men are on death row.

Loyola had the honor of continuing the dialogue surrounding the Angola Three by presenting a play that has been considered by state funded schools as being too controversial.

WARREN : No one should have to die alone and everyone should have the right to die with dignity.

A Virginia based minister carried her message to Louisiana this weekend. Ruth Graham, daughter of evangelist Billy Graham, was invited by Angola Warden Burl Cain.

Ruth Graham, daughter of famed evangelist Billy Graham and a minister in her own right, was unable to speak as she left Louisiana's death row - moved by the men she had met and prayed with and the stories of wasted lives and reclaimed faith she'd heard.

We are not surprised that Malik Rahim is being hailed as one of the heroes of Hurricane Katrina.

President Barack Obama has told a health-reform rally in Minneapolis that his "door is always open" to those who have serious proposals to offer.

Sat Sep 12, 6:39 pm ET ANGOLA, La. Hundreds of law enforcement officers - some on horseback, with bloodhounds or in boats - are searching Louisiana 's rugged Tunica Hills for an escaped killer.

West Feliciana Parish sheriff's deputies John Thompson, left, and Grant Parker search vehicles coming from the direction of Wilkinson County, Miss., on Pinckneyville Road during a search for an escaped Louisiana State Penitentiary inmate Thursday near Tunica, La.

The Angola chase team is still combing the Tunica Hills Thursday night, hoping to find an escaped inmate missing since 11 o'clock Thursday morning.

Henry Smith escaped while picking up litter on the Angola prison grounds. A Louisiana State Penitentiary chase team is following a trail in the Tunica Hills Thursday for an inmate believed to have escaped from his assigned job of picking up litter on the grounds of the maximum-security prison at Angola.

As state agencies work to cut costs, every idea is on the table. They include eliminating airplanes, state cars and employee cell phones; hiring a contractor to process fingerprints for the state police; dropping state support for a Christmas tree recycling program; and closing three state-run ferries in south Louisiana.

Samaritan's Purse President Franklin Graham dedicated a new chapel recently that is designed to meet the spiritual needs of guards and staff on the grounds of Louisiana's Angola Prison.

When a key witness in a high-profile capital murder trial testified this week that the suspect called her from prison to offer her a bribe to clear his name, it underscored the difficulty prosecutors face in protecting witnesses.

When a key witness in a high-profile capital murder trial testified this week that the suspect called her from prison to offer her a bribe to clear his name, it underscored the difficulty prosecutors face in protecting witnesses.