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Jimmy Fahrenholtz has been disqualified from the 2nd Congressional District race, according to Jacques Berry from the La.

Jennifer Douglas Abubakar, the wife of the former Nigerian vice president that Rep.

The three buses arrived at high noon at the 17th Street Canal Pumping Station. On board was more than 20 members of Congress, who were in town ahead of the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

Today qualifying began for offices throughout Louisiana . Among the most high profile races will be the contest for the Second Congressional District.

July 10, 2008, 4:15 p.m. A federal judge has denied a request by Rep. William Jefferson to drop the five counts of wire fraud levied against him in his corruption trial.

As of 5:00 pm, here are the candidates qualifying for the statewide US Senate and Congressional offices.

Any questions about who's in and who's out for Louisiana's congressional races get answered this week.

A notoriously corrupt Louisiana congressman already awaiting trial for operating a massive bribery scheme has been linked to a separate criminal case involving a state lawmaker indicted for money laundering.

BATON ROUGE - Congressional candidates flocked to the Louisiana secretary of state's office Wednesday to qualify for the party primaries.

A sixth fellow Democrat signed up today to challenge U.S. Representative William Jefferson as he runs for a 10th term while fighting a federal bribery indictment.

The names of indicted Congressman William Jefferson and his sister, New Orleans tax assessor Betty Jefferson, have surfaced in the federal case against a Louisiana legislator.

Day 2 of Louisiana's congressional candidate sign-up period has started slowly. That's in contrast to the opening day, when 6 of Louisiana's incumbent congressmen signed up to run for re-election this fall.

Candidates for Congress wasted no time today qualifying for the Sept. 6 party primaries.

Two candidates have signed up to challenge embattled Congressman William Jefferson, as the New Orleans Democrat again runs for re-election under a cloud of federal bribery allegations.

Former New Orleans City Councilman Troy Carter is the first candidate to qualify officially for the 2nd Congressional District seat now held by U.S. Rep.

Candidate qualifying opens today for a slate of federal and state offices, from one of Louisiana's U.S. Senate seats to local judgeships and an open Orleans Parish district attorney's seat.

Amid unprecedented amounts of legal scandals and corruption probes, congressional approval has fallen to single digits for the first time in history, according to a national poll released this week.

Louisiana may be losing seniority in Congress, but two state Democratic delegation members are gaining strength through what has become the swing caucus in the House: The Blue Dog Coalition.

The League of Conservation Voters last week put Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., on its "Dirty Dozen list," saying she has done more to protect "Big Oil" than "the future for the people of Louisiana" from the threat ...

Call it political irony: As Republicans embark on their long-shot attempt to recapture control of the U.S. Senate, their hopes depend in no small part on a Southerner named John Kennedy.