Louisiana News

Robert Thomas Binney, who has a private law practice in Slidell, was among the Louisiana State Bar Association's recipients of a Pro Bono Publico Award at the Louisiana Supreme Court in New Orleans.

The Baton Rouge metropolitan area gained more nonfarm jobs - 12,700 - in the 12 months ended June 30 than any of Louisiana's other seven metros.

Louisiana State Police Superintendent Col. Mike Edmonson has said he won't accept a retirement pay boost that the Louisiana Legislature approved for him and one other state trooper on the last day of the 2014 lawmaking session.

Two members of the Nicholls State University community traveled back in time -- and across the Atlantic Ocean -- to relive history.

Brandy Jenkins looks through school shirts for her daughter at Uniforms by Logo Express in New Orleans.

A man who thought he'd go in and easily rob an East Texas grocery store Thursday morning ended up getting the scare of his life and leaving empty-handed.

Chippewa County District Attorney Steve Gibbs said his office dropped the charges against Jimmy Baldwin, 37, and Eddie Evans, 61, on July 11. Gibbs called Baldwin's case "strictly circumstantial," and said that he's already serving a 45-year prison sentence.

With a nod to its maritime connections located along the banks of the Tchefuncte River, Fairview-Riverside State Park has become the seventh location in St. Tammany Parish to display a quilt block and join the Louisiana Northshore Quilt Trail Association.

Clifford Tresner, associate professor of art at the University of Louisiana at Monroe, has been chosen to present works at two Louisiana exhibitions this summer.

But you do have to go quite a way back: He says the Ninth Congress, from 1805 to 1807, during Thomas Jefferson's second term in office, did even less, because the government had no money left after the Louisiana Purchase.

Having failed to get a response to a series of questions he posed recently to the nation's Secretary of Homeland Security, Senator David Vitter says he has had to "dig around" to find out how Louisiana is being impacted by the surge of children from Central America crossing the U.S. border.

A company led by a relatively low-profile member of the 2013 Forbes China Rich List is ultimately behind a newly announced $1.85 billion Chinese investment in a methanol plant in the U.S. state of Louisiana.

Louisiana's death penalty protocol calls for the use of the same two drugs as those administered during a botched execution in Arizona Wednesday.

West Nile Virus has claimed the life of the Caddo Parish resident. The death, the first in Louisiana this year from the mosquito-borne virus, is among four total cases in Caddo Parish in the past week.

Given the abundance of drive-through daiquiri shops , Louisiana's dominance on this new list of the happiest cities in America isn't surprising.

A federal grand jury in Shreveport on Thursday indicted seven people -- including two from Ruston -- who law enforcement officials believe operated a cocaine distribution ring throughout much of north central and northwestern Louisiana.

Financial Corporation and its subsidiary American Gateway Bank . Business First Bancshares is headquartered in Baton Rouge, La.

There have been protests and heated public meetings over a proposal to begin fracking in St. Tammany Parish.

In a sign of rising tensions over Common Core, state Superintendent of Education John White told Louisiana's top school board Wednesday that he is being unfairly targeted personally for possible wrongdoing by Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration and its allies.

To ensure Lafayette Parish School System is fully staffed on the first day of school, the administration is declaring a critical shortage of full time K-12 classroom teachers.