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Judge Thomas Porteous, right, talks to a paralegal during a U.S. House hearing on his potential impeachment.

The Concordia Parish Sheriff's Office is seeking information concerning the whereabouts of a Monterey man missing since Friday, Nov.

A federal judge from Louisiana was falling deeply into gambling debt as he routinely solicited money and gifts from attorneys with cases before his court, congressional investigators said Tuesday as the House opened impeachment hearings against the judge.

A two-part series this week by The Times-Picayune's Robert Travis Scott explored this troubling issue.

With hurricane season ending, film and TV production in south Louisiana is picking up, and New Orleans is on track to break last year's filming record.

Lydia Ann Marks and Jonathon Brock Soley exchanged wedding vows on Saturday, November 14, 2009, at Oak Alley in Vacherie, Louisiana.

William Jefferson, left, with his wife Andrea Jefferson, leave the U.S. District Courthouse after being Jefferson was sentenced to 13 years in prison for bribery.

Former U.S. Rep. William Jefferson, with his wife Andrea and their daughters, leave the U.S. District Courthouse in Alexandria, Va., during Jefferson's trial in July.

The Louisiana Supreme Court has appointed retired state Appeals Court Judge Robert Klees to continue serving in place of disgraced state District Judge Wayne Cresap, who pleaded guilty to a judicial bribery scheme last month in federal court and officially resigned at the end of October.

Scientists and leaders from river deltas across the globe will meet in New Orleans next year to share knowledge and strategies during the inaugural World Delta Dialogues.

Two 20-year-old Baton Rouge men each have been ordered to spend 18 years in prison for a string of armed robberies in parking lots along the Bluebonnet Boulevard business corridor last year.

The Louisiana Supreme Court has ordered the removal of a Jefferson Parish judge accused of letting her relationships with a fellow judge and a plaintiff's attorney dictate her decision in a case.

The line began forming hours before it opened, but the wait came to end around 10 a.m. Wednesday.

A Walker man was killed in a two-vehicle crash this morning just after 6:00 am on LA 42 west of LA 44 in Ascension Parish.

Authorities were searching Saturday for a man reported missing in Bayou Segnette, near Westwego.

The Coast Guard temporarily suspended its search for a missing Westwego man at dusk Sunday and will decide Monday whether to resume the effort.

Researchers in Terrebonne Parish have been awarded $4 million to create computer models that can forecast the size and location of the Gulf of Mexico dead zone.

Former Ouachita Parish School Board member Phillip Odom pleaded innocent Wednesday in Caddo Parish to a charge of indecent behavior with a juvenile.

A survey done by Capital One Bank to gauge the local economic outlook has found that consumers remain cautious and families are holding off on major purchases.

The Louisiana justice of the peace who refused to marry an interracial couple says that he has no plans to step down, and that he does not understand why people think he is a racist.