Louisiana News

CHERYL GERBER/ASSOCIATED PRESS/FILE Trina Grimes Scott and former Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards greet the media after getting married in the French Quarter in New Orleans on July 29, 2011.

It's a question that conservative Louisianans have been muttering for years: How does Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu keep winning in a deep-red state? For three straight elections, Republicans have scratched their heads over how they let a very winnable Senate seat slip away.

Director Steve McQueen, whose ancestors were Caribbean slaves, interprets Solomon Northup's 1853 captivity narrative, which recounts "more cruel wrong and severe bondage" and is titled "12 Years A Slave."

U.S. Republican Governor of Louisiana Bobby Jindal speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland, on March 15, 2013.

The Council for the Development of French in Louisiana in partnership with the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities and the Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation, and Tourism has named Zachary Richard as its first Poete Laureat de la Louisiane Francaise.

Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration wants to use Gulf oil spill recovery money to help refill the Louisiana's "rainy day" fund and settle a lawsuit claiming the state needs to return roughly $300 million to the fund.

When you say "Louisiana Super Plants," you are talkin' tough -- and beautiful. And, they have a proven track record.

Britney Spears and her boyfriend David Lucado were spotted jetting out of LAX International Airport on Thursday, reportedly en-route to Louisiana for her younger sister's wedding.

Roberta Y. Cawthorne, of Shreveport, received the President's Award from The Arc Louisiana for outstanding, faithful service to The Arc of Louisiana and to The Arc Louisiana Foundation.

Acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Louisiana Walt Green was nominated by President Barack Obama on Thursday, March 13, 2014, to serve the position in a permanent capacity.

Congress is sending President Barack Obama a bill to ease big flood insurance premium increases faced by hundreds of thousands of homeowners and allow below-market rates to be passed on to people buying homes with taxpayer-subsidized policies.

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Unhappy that no north shore projects have been included in the billions of dollars spent on south Louisiana flood protection projects since Hurricane Katrina, St. Tammany Parish is seeking to withdraw from the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East and go out on its own as a separate levee district taxing authority.

When the movie "Twelve Years a Slave" was honored as the best motion picture of 2013 during the Academy Awards, it had a special significance for many in Louisiana.

A group of approximately 70 students from InterAct of Royal Oak traded sleeping in late during a recent school break for assisting communities in the New Orleans area destroyed by Hurricane Isaac.

A Louisiana woman has been charged with first-degree murder after police say she injected alcohol-based hand sanitizer into the feeding tube of her 17-month-old son, who was afflicted with Down syndrome.

A Louisiana woman has been charged with first-degree murder after police say she injected alcohol-based hand sanitizer into the feeding tube of her 17-month-old son, who was afflicted with Down syndrome.

A proposal to put qualification requirements on the people a governor can appoint to Louisiana's higher education boards won support today from the House Education Committee, but members didn't yet agree on what those requirements should be.

Opelousas police arrested three men Tuesday after a search warrant turned up over a pound and a half of marijuana along with oxycontin and lortab pills.

The gunman who killed two hostages during an August standoff at a rural Louisiana bank had been treated several weeks earlier for paranoid schizophrenia at a California hospital after returning to the U.S. from a trip to Yemen, according to a report released Wednesday by the Louisiana State Police.