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Drew Dunn, right, catches a sandbag from Randy Matherne while Derek Porche grabs another bag from a truck on Bayou Gauche Sept.

Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., said Friday that she will introduce legislation soon to delay implementation of a 2012 flood insurance law that is leading to sharply higher premiums for policyholders.

"I wouldn't want anyone to go through what I go through, nobody," said a mother whose identity WAFB is concealing.

Retired Air Force Col. Rob Maness announced his candidacy this week for Senate in Louisiana, and now the PAC formerly associated with Heritage Foundation president Jim DeMint is considering supporting him.

Wholesale change at the IRS is needed, Louisiana Republicans say, in light of disclosures that the agency targeted Tea Party and other conservative organizations for extra scrutiny.

In a sign that the GOP is rallying around Rep. Bill Cassidy as its choice for the 2014 Senate race, all of the Republicans in the state's congressional delegation are supporting Cassidy at a June fundraiser in Washington.

Hospitals in states that have refused to take the Medicaid expansion offered under the Affordable Care Act have been in a panic in recent months over the pending loss of funding they were supposed to suffer with the implementation of the law.

WASHINGTON - Republican Rep. Charles Boustany and other members of the House Ways and Means Committee will hold a hearing Friday on reports that the Internal Revenue Service singled out certain conservative groups for special scrutiny.

A retired Air Force colonel from Madisonville says he plans to run for the U.S. Senate next year, seeking to oust Democratic incumbent Mary Landrieu.

Rep. Bill Cassidy , R-Baton Rouge, has reintroduced a slightly modified version of his 2012 legislation that would overhaul how Medicaid is financed.

Two Baton Rouge middle school students met Wednesday with U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and he told them that they have accomplished more than he has in academic research.

Fort Polk Progress is set to honor U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-New Orleans, for her efforts on behalf of Fort Polk at a special luncheon from noon to 1:30 p.m. Monday, May 13 at the Landmark Hotel, located at 3080 Colony Blvd.

By JOHN MAGINNIS and JEREMY ALFORD LaPolitics.com With the U.S. Senate approving legislation earlier this week to allow states to collect sales taxes on Internet purchases, attention turns to the Louisiana Legislature, where a proposal to create a single sales tax collection system is running out of time.

Waving a Susan B. Anthony American Flag, Shawn Wilson and his sons attend a Defend Louisiana pro gun rally on the steps of the Louisiana State Capital in Baton Rouge, Monday April 8, 2013.

New Medicaid research that garnered widespread attention from national health policy experts has not yet affected the expansion debate at the state level, but it could bolster national policy changes in the program.

"This is serious... I can'A t see how they can let this happen." -- St. Charles Parish President V.J. St.

As the shutdown of LSU's Earl K. Long Medical Center in northern Baton Rouge occurred and patients made the trip to private clinics, so too did U.S. Rep.

President George W. Bush stopped for lunch at Li'l Dizzy's Cafe in Treme on March 1, 2007 during one of his post-Katrina visits.

Steve King to seek the open seat instead. #MI14: Several Detroit-area Democrats are positioning to run for Peters' seat including his primary foe from 2012, former Rep.

The conservative billionaire Koch brothers, who poured millions of dollars into the 2012 elections, have given their largest single political action committee donation for the 2014 mid-term races to Rep.