Jackson News

Goina TM to Jackson WHAT: One-man play written by and starring Jamie Wax. WHEN: Friday-Sunday, July 17-19; and Thursday-Sunday, July 23-26. Thursday, Friday and Saturday shows, 8 p.m.; Sunday shows, 2 p.m. WHERE: Manship Theatre in the Shaw Center for the Arts, 100 Lafayette St.

For all the madness that engulfed Michael Jackson in life and all the craziness that has ensued since his death, perhaps the biggest surprise about his memorial service was that it was so normal - at least as normal can be when there's a golden casket onstage and the eulogists include Brooke Shields, Magic Johnson and Queen Latifah.

A Stanford Group broker came to the state attorney general's office in early 2008 with a complaint regarding possible violations of securities law, says an official with the office.

East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff's deputies have arrested two men in a 2008 bank robbery.

Over the objections of some neighborhood groups in New Orleans, the Senate gave final approval to a bill that changes the definitions and regulation of Louisiana bars and restaurants.

A police detective arrested two women Thursday after bank employees alerted him to a possible fraudulent transaction.

A Senate committee stood up for bicyclists Thursday, giving unanimous approval to a bill that would enhance their safety on the road and make it a misdemeanor offense for occupants of cars or truck to throw objects at the cyclists.

The East Feliciana School Board on Tuesday heard reports that students made progress in spring test scores, did well in the state literary rally at LSU and that its 17 Teach for America teachers are gaining national attention.

So far this session the loudest noise about the looming budget cuts has come from colleges and universities, whose financial plight has garnered widespread attention and sympathy from editorial writers, captains of industry and good-government groups.

If you love to cook and are easily seduced by the lore of the kitchen, recipes, photos and history of food, you're bound to have a cookbook library.

Breaking with Gov. Bobby Jindal and injecting a new wrinkle into the debate over state budget cuts, the Senate's tax policy committee Thursday approved a three-year freeze on the portion of federal itemized deductions that Louisiana residents can deduct on their state income tax filings.

The video voyeurism trial of a Breaux Bridge man accused of taking pictures of young bikini-clad girls at Blue Bayou Water Park in Baton Rouge will resume July 16, a judge said Wednesday.

It's an issue that was first raised locally when Chelsea's Cafe lost its liquor license.

Legislation designed to better protect bicycle riders as they compete for road space with motor vehicles won unanimous approval Monday from the House Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works.

A Hurricane Katrina evacuee from New Orleans faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison following his conviction in the 2005 shooting death of a Baton Rouge man outside a now-defunct hotel.

East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff's deputies made a drug bust in Baton Rouge Wednesday that took 30 lbs.

The East Feliciana Police Jury on a 4-3 vote Monday denied for the second time a request by a Jackson-area resident to override a recommendation by the parish Planning and Zoning Commission against his request to rezone property from residential to commercial.

A 46-year-old man was fatally shot Sunday by a woman he allegedly forced to live in a clapboard house on Old Perkins Road, a spokeswoman with the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's said.

Inmates work on cleaning up a ditch on campus as part of the LSU Inmate Labor Program.

Pat and Larry McIntyre, of Tucson, Ariz., talk about how they decided to visit Rosedown Plantation on Tuesday in St.