Louisiana News

State Sen. Elbert Guillory, R-Opelousas, has formally announced his candidacy in the race for lieutenant governor next year.

The Louisiana Mineral and Energy Board collected more than $770,000 during its December sale of mineral rights on state and local lands.

The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Louisiana says 33-yeaer-old Randy A. Powell, who was arrested in October, pleaded guilty Tuesday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Karen L. Hayes to receiving child pornography.

Four of the six Louisiana House members supported a $2 trillion spending plan for 2014 and 2015 that passed the House Thursday by a lopsided 332-94 margin.

Authorities are trying to determine what caused a fire Wednesday afternoon at Mark and Deborah Cortez's house on Louisiana 1085 in Goodbee, leaving the structure charred and unlivable.

Two suspects were arrested early Thursday morning and two remain at large in connection with Wednesday's bank robbery in Church Point.

Will 60 Minutes' Leslie Stahl do an update on her propaganda piece on global jihadist Fethullah Gulen and the Islamic Gulen schools? In this news report, Gulenists are kneeling in Islamic prayer as FBI confiscates documents and hard drives.

Louisiana's Department of Agriculture says federal authorities have declared 28 parishes in the state natural disaster areas because of drought.

The actors who portrayed the brutality of American slavery in the film "12 Years a Slave" won the most nominations for Screen Actors Guild awards on Wednesday, giving the movie momentum in the run-up to the industry's top awards, the Oscars.

And, thank the Lord for Mississippi--which according to the 24th Edition of America's Health Rankings A , is dead last.

Police and school officials say American University's campus in the nation's capital is on lockdown after police received calls about a man with a gun.

Louisiana's congressional delegation largely remained uncommitted Wednesday on the budget deal that would substitute some across-the-board cuts known as sequester for modest increases in military and domestic spending during the next two years.

Louisiana's congressional delegation largely remained uncommitted Wednesday on the budget deal that would substitute some across-the-board cuts known as sequester for modest increases in military and domestic spending during the next two years.

Washington attorney/political fundraiser Charlie Spies wants to make it even easier for those with the financial resources to continue to buy elections in Louisiana to the increasing detriment of the rest of us.

A woman on probation for drunken driving in a fatal crash and leaving the scene has been arrested on probation warrants alleging she violated conditions of release by clubbing, drinking alcohol and staying out past curfew in the past year.

Doctors who steer Medicaid patients into specific health insurance plans could face heavy sanctions under an emergency rule the state started this month.

Sen. Mary Landrieu, the vulnerable Louisiana Democrat, tried Wednesday to distance herself even further from both Obamacare and President Barack Obama in the first television commercial of her reelection campaign.

A Texas man with a prior conviction for murder was sentenced last week after being charged with wildlife-related and other violations earlier this year in Caddo Parish.

Toussaint's album, "Songbook," is up for best Americana album. The New Orleans Advocate reports Toussaint recorded the album, which features solo voice and piano performances, in the fall of 2009 at Joe's Pub in New York City.

Nearly 7,000 Louisiana residents could lose their long-term unemployment benefits by the end of the month if Congress doesn't act, White House officials said Tuesday.