Louisiana News

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.

After 30 years behind bars -- most of them on death row -- a Louisiana man, Glenn Ford, walked free Tuesday night from the maximum security prison at Angola.

Louisiana lawmakers are considering marijuana legalization. It's led a group of concerned parents and citizens in the Jefferson Parish community to organize a discussion about the impact of marijuana legalization in the community.

Louisiana corrections officials are asking a federal appeals court to overturn a ruling that would require disclosure of the seller and manufacturer of the state's execution drugs.

The Midwest and the Eastern Seaboard are bracing for another blast of below-normal temperatures and heavy snowfall after a few days of temperatures slightly above normal for this time of year.

If I'm a Democratic House member in any competitive district in America or a Democratic incumbent senator up for re-election this year in a moderate-to-conservative state like North Carolina, Arkansas, Colorado, Alaska or Louisiana, I'm waking up more than a little anxious about what happened in Pinellas County on Tuesday.

A Caddo Parish man prepared Tuesday to walk free after spending almost 26 years on death row at Louisiana's maximum security prison at Angola.

As the 2014 Louisiana legislative session gets underway in Baton Rouge, this is an excellent time to remind ourselves that many politicians seem to be more driven by their self-serving egos than by a desire to make the world a better place.

CNBC's Jim Cramer excites the crowd when he enters Dixon Hall theatre as he hosts his show Mad Money from Tulane University's Business School in October 2010.

The idea is to make graduates employable, whether they are preparing for white collar or blue collar jobs.

Louisiana lawmakers began the 2014 legislative session Monday with bills to drop the new, embattled national tests that measure the Common Core mathematics and English standards.

With his immigrant parents looking on, Gov. Bobby Jindal opened the 2014 legislative session Monday by vowing to guarantee the American dream for every child growing up in Louisiana.

Advocate staff file photo by JOHN McCUSKER -- The Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority -- East encompasses the Lake Borgne Basin, Orleans and East Jefferson levee districts.