Louisiana News

A West Virginia woman accused with her boyfriend of strangling her grandfather in Louisiana and driving the body to her home state has pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice.

The Louisiana Recovery Authority pledged Thursday to try to find a way to assist Rapides Parish officials in their bid to recertify Red River levees in Central Louisiana.

The Department of Social Services is proposing a reorganization that would consolidate offices, eliminate nearly 200 jobs and create more ways for people to apply for services.

The House voted unanimously Thursday to impeach a U.S. district judge from Louisiana, who lawmakers said avoided likely criminal charges related to alleged payoffs in part because the statute of limitations expired.

A Louisiana man accused of helping his father hide the body of a Ku Klux Klan recruit pleaded guilty Thursday to obstruction of justice and was sentenced to three years in prison, according to a prosecutor's spokesman.

The Food Bank of Central Louisiana and Suddenlink Communications are holding the seventh annual 'Can Share' food drive from March 15 - April 30.

Fourth-grader Tyrik Debou reads a lesson in class at Banneker Elementary School in New Orleans.The state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education on Wednesday backed a formula with a 2.75 percent boost for each public school student.

In Louisiana, you don't need a license to peddle pets, paintings or cars. But sell no flowers.

BATON ROUGE - Eight co-workers from the State Office of Motor Vehicles in Baton Rouge have laid claim to the winning jackpot from Louisiana Lotto's drawing on March 3. The top prize was just over $687,000. After taxes, each of the winners got about $60,000. James C. McCullough III of Baton Rouge claimed the prize on behalf of his winning ...

A challenger to Louisiana Sen. David Vitter filed an ethics complaint Tuesday, claiming a fundraising letter for the Republican incumbent's campaign makes illegal use of a government emblem.

Ouachita Parish Deputy Cpl. J.R. Searcy was pronounced dead Saturday night, two days after he was shot and fatally wounded.

Charles A. Shropshire, the first black person elected to the office of district attorney in Louisiana, has been found dead.

A Louisiana judge has ordered a new trial for a man convicted of murdering five teenagers in a 2006 shooting spree.The killings prompted then-Gov. Kathleen Blanco to send National Guard troops back to New Orleans to help quell lawlessness as the city recovered from Hurricane Katrina.Judge Lynda Van Davis also set aside 23-year-old Michael ...

BATON ROUGE - The cost of a Louisiana driver's license went up $15 today, and lawmakers are questioning the jump in price.

Former Gov. Kathleen Blanco is taking umbrage at statements in a book by Karl Rove, political adviser to former President George W. Bush.

Louisiana has reached a crossroad in its quest to catch up with other Southeast states in the automobile manufacturing business: one of its companies is on the way out, while the other is waiting to get started - both with the help of Washington, D.C. On the way out is General Motors Co.

Call it the long goodbye. Members of the Louisiana National Guard's 256th Infantry Brigade Combat Team boarded buses once again on Thursday at the National Guard Armory, ending a three-day leave and bidding one final, fond farewell to home territory before deploying to Iraq.

With a full-throated shout of "Tiger Brigade, Sir! Who dat!" the Louisiana National Guard's 256th Infantry Brigade came to attention during ceremonies at a National Guard camp in Mississippi to mark the brigade's second deployment to Iraq.

A Louisiana man shot by Lee Boyd Malvo before a string of 2002 shootings has received a letter of apology from the convicted sniper.

Suspect was shot and killed by another deputy Ouachita Parish Sheriff's Office continued the investigation Friday of the Thursday evening shooting that left one man dead and a deputy hospitalized in critical condition.