District attorneys say they are concerned about a proposal by a New Orleans state senator that would allow jurors in criminal trials to take notes during testimony.
The city of Monroe is planning to conduct a feasibility study to look into adding more parking downtown.
Former Louisiana Gov. Charles "Buddy" Roemer is giving up his attempt to win the Republican nomination for president. But he's not giving up his bid for the White House.
State police are investigating a fatal crash on U.S. Highway 167 near Lafayette which claimed the life of a 33-year-old Keithville man.
Former Louisiana Gov. Charles "Buddy" Roemer is giving up his attempt to win the Republican nomination for president. But he's not giving up his bid for the White House.
By dawn on Wednesday, stately St. Charles Avenue, where tens of thousands spent Mardi Gras feasting, drinking and scrambling for beads, was cleared of mountains of trash left behind by revelers.
The Caddo Parish School Board has killed a proposal for a possible sales tax for employee salaries and benefits.
Caddo Parish commissioners will not take up the ban of wearing pajamas in public.
Revenue figures show the new year got off to a slower- than-average start for Mississippi casinos.
West Monroe police said a 9-year-old girl died after a head-on two-vehicle crash.
Authorities say two children were killed when the car they were in went off the road and into a bayou in southeast Louisiana.
Police have arrested a 43-year-old woman accused of molesting a juvenile boy at a Baker group home.
Lafayette's new school Superintendent Pat Cooper says he'll present the district's goals, proposed by system employees and community members, to the school board by April 1.
A new report conducted by LSU finds the number of uninsured children in Louisiana continued to decline while the number of adults without insurance rose over the past two years.
Police are investigating a Fat Tuesday shooting on the edge of the French Quarter.
A Baptist college in Louisiana is suing the federal government to block enforcement of a requirement that religious schools and hospitals provide free birth control in insurance for employees.
A West Monroe man is appealing his six-month prison sentence for his role in a hate crime at a school.
Authorities say two children were killed when the car they were in went off the road and into a bayou in southeast Louisiana.
In Pointe Coupee Parish, Mardi Gras revelry turned deadly after a rider fell from a float that had participated in the New Roads parade.
Lafayette police are reporting a minor parade incident when a woman allegedly tried to remove a banner from a float.
Bathed in 70-degree temperatures and showered with trinkets, beads and music, New Orleans reveled in the excesses of Fat Tuesday.
Former Winn Parish Sheriff James Edward "Buddy" Jordan has died.
Across Louisiana on Mardi Gras, a blend of local traditions and modern innovations put a distinctive face on the celebration first brought to Louisiana in 1682 by French explorers.
A Baptist college in Louisiana is suing the federal government to block enforcement of a requirement that religious schools and hospitals provide free birth control in insurance for employees.
Wednesday's the deadline to register to vote or to change parties for the presidential preference primary next month.
As the Orpheus ball began to wind down early Tuesday, revelers geared up for the Fat Tuesday parades that began rolling shortly after daybreak.
Top executives from Boyd Gaming and MGM Resorts International are scheduled to speak at the Southern Gaming Summit May 8-10 in Biloxi.
A Louisiana woman who was a cook on the BP PLC-leased drilling rig that was rocked by a deadly explosion in 2010 has settled her personal-injury claims against the oil giant and other companies involved in the disaster.
Parish Administrator Courtney Hall says highway superintendent Jeff Frasier will retire at the end of March, after 30 years on the job.
Laissez les bon temps rouler, y'all.
The Coast Guard says a tank barge involved in a collision on the Mississippi River has been emptied and moved to a repair facility in Westwego.
A suburban New Orleans hospital is notifying patients that their personal information may have been contained on a missing computer hard drive.
Terrebonne Parish school Superintendent Philip Martin says an investigation has cleared the principal of South Terrebonne High School of allegations he harassed interracial couples.
Former Winn Parish Sheriff A.D. "Bodie" Little goes on trial this week on federal drug charges.
Jefferson Parish deputies are hunting for whoever shot six teenagers, including a 13-year-old and two 16-year-olds, in Marrero.
Several Richwood Board of Aldermen members are upset that Mayor Steve Hunter bought a $3,500 truck after the board asked him to wait until they could review finances.
One of 18 float riders injured just after the St. Paul Carnival Association parade in Pass Christian says riders were bouncing up and down when the float came unhitched and veered into a ditch.
A federal judge has put off a former NFL player's sentencing to give prosecutors time to notify possible fraud victims in Mississippi, Tennessee, Florida and Arizona.
Rocker Bret Michaels and Grammy-winning singer Cyndi Lauper were expected to usher in Mardi Gras with musical performances in the wee hours of the morning Tuesday during a glitzy ball following the Orpheus parade.
St. Martinville authorities have arrested to people in connection with a kidnapping last week but are still searching for a third suspect in the case.
Authorities' say a fight in downtown Shreveport has left one man hospitalized and another man facing serious charges.
A New Orleans man accused of killing his estranged ex-girlfriend and her teenage son has been indicted with two counts of second-degree murder.
Crime Stoppers is offering a $5,000 reward for information in a case in which home invaders slit the throats of a couple in their 70s and the woman's 50-year-old son, killing both men and leaving the woman critically...
The Louisiana State Police says a Eunice man has died in head-on collision on Louisiana Highway 13.
Richard Roesgen has been named president and publisher of two newspapers in Louisiana, The Daily Advertiser in Lafayette and The Daily World in Opelousas.
Federal prosecutors want to delay the sentencing date of a Louisiana rapper convicted on weapon and witness tampering charges.
The day before Mardi Gras, known in this city as Lundi Gras, is almost as big as Fat Tuesday with revelers dancing to live music along the Mississippi River and many staking out spots early for Monday night's...
Attorneys for a man who was declared dead and later charged in the kidnapping of a Las Vegas girl are asking a judge to dismiss one of the indictments against him.
Nicholas Swyka has been named to the board of directors of Covington-based Hornbeck Offshore Services.
The Coca-Cola Co. says it's returning to its root beer's Gulf Coast roots with the first redesign in 20 years for Barq's label and slogan.
Authorities have identified the man whose body was found shot multiple times in the woods in Shreveport.
Louisiana State Police say an 18-year-old woman has died in a single-vehicle crash on Louisiana 37 in East Baton Rouge Parish.
More than 200 students from Southern colleges and universities are expected to attend the Southeastern Leadership Conference on March 3 at Southeastern Louisiana University.
Jefferson Parish officials say the parish landfill will be closed on Tuesday for Mardi Gras and there will be no trash collection in Jean Lafitte or unincorporated areas of the parish.
The Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office is auctioning three horses and a donkey this coming week.
A forum for candidates seeking at-large seats on the New Orleans City Council will be held March 13 at 7 p.m.
Carnival in New Orleans is building toward the out-of-control crescendo of Fat Tuesday. But Barry Kern and his team of float-builders and artists are already planning for next year's party.
The University of Louisiana System's new online educational journal has set March 15 as the deadline for submitting manuscripts to be considered for its first issue.
Construction has begun on a new fire station on Wooddale Avenue in Baton Rouge.
Police say one man was killed in a shooting at a Mardi Gras parade in Plaquemine (PLAK-uh-min), 13 miles out of Baton Rouge in Iberville (IB-er-vil) Parish.
Sara and Dejohn Benson made a lot of noise as they jumped up and down waiting for the next float to roll down St. Charles Avenue. The bead-laden 10- and 7-year old brother and sister were making up for lost time after...
The Calcasieu Parish Coroner's Office says a man who was being booked into the Sulphur jail apparently killed himself.
The Navy has proposed decommissioning a squadron at the air station in Belle Chasse as part of its plans to meet President Barack Obama's budget cut orders.
People who run nonprofit agencies on the grounds of a state mental hospital are wondering what will happen to them, since Central Louisiana State Hospital is moving to smaller campus in Pineville.
A Slidell man, caught backing out of the driveway of a flaming house with a burned thumb and a bottle of gasoline on the floorboard of his BMW, was convicted of aggravated arson by a St. Tammany Parish jury.
Ascension Parish Sheriff Jeff Wiley says a 74-year-old man and a 50-year-old man were killed in an apparent home invasion in Gonzales, and a 72-year-old woman was fighting for her life.
The social work program at Southeastern Louisiana University has been reaccredited by the Council on Social Work Education's Commission on Accreditation.
The federal government has told Louisiana to put the Gulf of Mexico "dead zone" back onto a national list of polluted water bodies, but state environmental officials say "no."
The Louisiana Lottery Corp. says nobody won the top prizes for big-money games sold in Louisiana. That boosts Wednesday's jackpots to an estimated $60 million for Powerball, $775,000 for Lotto and $380,000 for Easy 5.
Sales tax collections jumped sharply in December, Tangipahoa Parish President Gordon Burgess said.
The Army has awarded an $11.4 million contract for computer software and maintenance services to A-B Computer Solutions Inc.
City-Parish President Joey Durel plans to hold a public forum on Monday to answer questions about Lafayette Utilities System's decision to install so-called smart meters at homes.
Drivers in northern Bossier Parish who use Palmetto Road between the Flat River bridge and Old Palmetto Road may need to use an alternate route this summer.
A program at the University of Louisiana-Monroe is designed to prepare teachers for the certification they need to obtain positions in school administration.
The documentary film "T-Galop: a Louisiana Horse Story" will premiere on March 15 at 7 p.m. at the Central School Arts and Humanities Center in Lake Charles.
Monroe Regional Airport is the only commercial airport in the state that doesn't have an independent board or airport authority to oversee its operations.
Construction on a $3.1 million expansion at the West Calcasieu Port has begun.
The Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office has arrested a jailer for alleging punching an inmate at the parish prison.
As the celebrity-studded Mardi Gras parades roll through New Orleans this weekend, residents in the south Louisiana fishing village of Lafitte are gearing up for a different kind of Mardi Gras.
Much of southern Louisiana and Mississippi were under flash flood warnings and severe weather watches Saturday.
An early morning traffic accident Saturday on Interstate 10 in eastern New Orleans left a 38-year-old woman dead and a man critically injured.
ESPN has apologized for using a racial slur in a headline for a story on Knicks sensation Jeremy Lin.
Sheriff's deputies in Livingston Parish are investigating the theft of two dozen LSU championship rings taken from the home of an assistant athletics director.
An Alexandria businessman who bought the Cowboy Town arena at a bankruptcy auction in 2004 could lose the property and others he put up for collateral on loans of more than $6.2 million.
The Oak Ridge Boys are set for a concert on March 3 in Natchez.
By MARY FOSTER Associated Press Writer It's not as glitzy as New Orleans, but it's not as frenzied either, and the throws are generous and more varied.
The Allen Parish school system is in good financial shape, but still faces challenges, Superintendent Michael Doucet says.
A federal lawsuit filed on behalf of a group of former NFL players who live in Louisiana accuses the league of failing to protect players from the risks associated with concussions.
A delegation of educators from South Korea met this past week with Louisiana College officials to work out a cooperative education agreement.
The City Council has voted to divide the 342-acre Edenborne site into four tracts, moving the mixed-use development planned near the intersection of Interstate 10 and Louisiana Highway 44 a step closer to reality.
The Pike County town of Magnolia is gearing up for Carnival with its annual Mardi Gras Festival and Parade on Saturday and Sunday.
U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., says the Federal Emergency Management Agency is giving southeast Louisiana about $46.4 million in disaster recovery funds for several projects including a prison, cruise ship terminal and...
Legislation aimed at helping people who make their living harvesting shrimp and oysters from coastal waters has been approved by a Senate committee.
A Benton man has been arrested on suspicion of stealing more than $64,000 worth of timber.
Visit one of the most impressive camellia gardens in Louisiana from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Feb. 26 at the LSU AgCenter Hammond Research Station.
A Jefferson Parish jury has convicted a Kenner man of second-degree murder in the death a 7-year-old girl who was killed when shots tore into her River Ridge apartment.
A Louisiana State University student has been charged with falsely claiming he was awarded the Purple Heart and with wearing military medals without authorization.
The Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office has arrested an officer at the parish juvenile detention center after he admitted trying to convince a 16-year-old boy to have sex with him while the teenager was incarcerated.
An 18-year-old student at Tara High School has been arrested, accused of raping a 14-year-old student.
Brian Tolley will take over as executive editor of The Clarion-Ledger on March 12.
A minority partner in BP's blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico has agreed to pay $90 million in a settlement with the federal government and Gulf states to resolve allegations the company violated the Clean Water Act.
The commission charged by Gov. Bobby Jindal with finding politically viable ways to reduce Louisiana's high incarceration rate watered down key proposals after urging from the Jindal administration.
The finance arm of General Electric Co. says it will open an information technology center in New Orleans employing 300 people.
Federal officials have rejected Jefferson Parish's appeal of the refusal to cancel $55 million in disaster loans the parish received after Hurricane Katrina.
It happens all the time to Ryan Perrilloux, that moment in the middle of an ordinary day when it hits him once again where he was just a few weeks ago: standing on the sidelines at Lucas Oil Stadium watching his teammates...
A winter of well-spaced rains has provided a measure of drought relief for Louisiana farmers who wondered last fall whether their parched fields would fail during the planting season.
The parent of MBL Bank reported an increase in net income for its fourth-quarter compared with the same period a year ago,
Special hours are set for ferries on the Mississippi River at New Orleans for the weekend and through Mardi Gras.
A state audit says former St. Garbiel Mayor George Grace - now being tried on federal racketeering charges - wrongly used city funds to pay his personal contribution into a state retirement account.
Seven people have been arrested following the discovery of a suspected methamphetamine laboratory in a Calcasieu Parish trailer home.
A man was shot to death and found slumped in his SUV late Thursday in a downtown neighborhood, New Orleans police say.
Shreveport police are investigating the death of a 1-year-old boy who had been spending the night with his father.
Three men have been arrested in connection with the killing of two exotic deer at a wildlife sanctuary in Tangipahoa Parish.
A man wanted by Rayne authorities after he escaped and stole a city truck has been arrested in Baton Rouge.
The Coast Guard is investigating an oil spill on the Mississippi River in Louisiana.
The Orleans Parish district attorney says DNA from a rape 16 years ago has convicted a 35-year-old man of a sexual assault committed when he was 19.
Police say two men were shot in the leg during a New Orleans parade that's part of the run-up to Mardi Gras, and a 16-year-old boy was arrested.
Baton Rouge police say a woman shot a man, stole his bicycle, rode a few blocks and then shot and killed a second man before surrendering.
Millions of people worldwide are held in modern slavery and sex trafficking, and experts say that's more than at the height of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
The U.S. House has approved setting aside 80 percent of fines from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill for environmental restoration work on the Gulf Coast.
State gambling regulators have given Creative Casinos LLC an extra month to get its financing together and start construction on the $400 million Mojito Pointe casino proposed for Lake Charles.
International Paper Co. is now officially the fifth owner of a paper mill opened in Bogalusa in 1906.
A Hammond man has pleaded guilty to filing a false federal income tax return.
A man who served as chief engineer on a ship that came into port in southeast Louisiana last October has pleaded guilty to making false statements to the Coast Guard in a pollution investigation.
The East Baton Rouge Parish School Board has named magnet programs director Carlos Sam as interim superintendent.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta is coming to Barksdale Air Force Base to say thank you to the men and women who keep the aircraft used for long-range bombing in top condition.
Most people think of New Orleans when they hear the words "Mardi Gras." But the Southern tradition is celebrated in plenty of other places along the Gulf Coast.
New Orleans police say a person was shot in the leg on St. Charles Avenue during a Carnival parade.
A Lafayette man has been indicted on charges he spray-painted racial slurs on two churches.
Ascension Parish Sheriff Jeff Wiley says a man dived through a window, fought deputies with a floor fan and died after being hit twice with stun guns.
A federal judge has thrown out a Louisiana law that bans certain sex offenders from Facebook and other social networking sites.
Lafourche Parish authorities say a 41-year-old Thibodaux man drowned after his pickup truck ran off the road and into a swamp.
A study commissioned by Shreveport-area business leaders recommends moving LSU-Shreveport into the University of Louisiana system - either on its own or as a campus of Louisiana Tech.
The fire chief of the Bayou Cane Fire Department has turned in his resignation letter and says he will leave the department in the next few weeks.
By The Associated Press Winnings from gamblers at Louisiana's state-licensed casinos in January 2012 with totals, attendance and average loss per customer:
Jazz and funk musician Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews is performing on Mardi Gras, but he won't be in his hometown New Orleans - he'll be at the White House.
A 35-year-old Scott man pleaded guilty to one cocaine conspiracy charge and got nearly 16 years in prison.
Designed as a celebration of Mardi Gras when it opened in 1992, a museum in the New Orleans suburb of Kenner has closed and its stock of memorabilia will go on the auction block.
Last month's winnings for Louisiana's state-licensed casinos fell 3.5 percent from January 2011.
Pinnacle Entertainment Inc. is planning to have its new $368 million Baton Rouge casino and hotel project open by Labor Day.
More than 1,000 people attended the world premiere of the independent film Deadline, which was made in Nashville and inspired by the true story of how a newspaper helped solve a small-town racially motivated killing.
Terrebonne Parish authorities say two people were severely burned in an explosion on a boat docked for cleaning in the Gulf Intracoastal.
A man accused last month of shooting a 15-year-old girl who was sitting in her Baton Rouge home has been arrested.
Sheriff's deputies say an 18-wheeler and two pick-up trucks hit and killed 17 cows when the herd of cattle got loose from a pasture and wandered onto La. Highway 30 in St. Gabriel.
The Shreveport man accused of killing three brothers over an XBox 360 is set to go on trial Oct. 8.
Jefferson Parish sheriff's deputies say a waiter at a Metairie restaurant and his roommate have been arrested in connection with a scheme to skim customer credit card information.
A grassy plot on a piney stretch of La. Highway 467 near Fort Polk in Vernon Parish will be the final resting place for veterans of all branches of the U.S. military.
Acclaimed author Ernest Gaines has received the inaugural Sidney Lanier Prize for Southern Literature from Mercer University in Macon.
After seven hours of deliberation, jurors in the second-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder trial of Devin Blake Badon told the judge they were deadlocked.
The Youngsville City Council has unanimously approved a master plan for a sports complex, a 70-acre multi-use recreational facility to be built near Sugar Mill Pond.
The East Baton Rouge Metro Council's Finance and Executive Committee has recommended that the full council settle with a former elementary school employee who sued the city-parish seven years ago over toxic-mold issues...
Lafayette Parish School Superintendent Pat Cooper will get an assistant to advise him on district facilities operations.
The Iberia Parish School Board has unanimously approved a resolution that takes $505,000 of tobacco settlement funds to pay for summer remedial courses.
Baton Rouge police have arrested an East Baton Rouge Parish Juvenile Detention Center employee for allegedly having a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old girl after she had been released from the center.
Alexandria police say a 25-year-old man was arrested after authorities investigated a report of a bomb threat.
The LSU AgCenter and the Tangipahoa Parish Master Gardener Association will hold a home orchard workshop Feb. 24 at the Hammond Research Station.
A 38-year-old Carriere man is facing charges in multiple jurisdictions for allegedly stealing telephone lines.
Nobody won last night's $675,000 Louisiana Lotto jackpot or the $320,000 Easy 5 drawing.
A dispatcher at a Shreveport transportation company has been arrested for stealing more than $85,000 from his employer.
Mary Roberts of Boyce came home from the grocery store and found her husband sitting at the computer shaking.
Capt. John H. "Jack" Hill, III will relieve Capt. Thomas W. Luscher as commanding officer of Naval Air Station Joint Reserve New Orleans on Friday at the base in Belle Chasse.
Sheriff's deputies say allegations that firefighters at a volunteer company in Jefferson Parish lavishly spent public funds on alcohol, computer games and vacations has led to the arrest of a 47-year-old fire chief.
A former president of a Hammond bank and a real estate developer are charged with conspiring to commit bank fraud.
Gov. Bobby Jindal has more than $3 million in his campaign account, even after wrapping up his election costs and tallying much of his inauguration ceremony spending.
Less than a day after initiating a policy of putting signs on houses investigated for drugs as a result of a Crimestoppers tip, New Orleans Police Superintendent Ronal Serpas rethought the idea and canceled it.
The Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections has reached a settlement resolving Justice Department claims that the department failed to properly respond to an employee's complaints that a supervisor sexually...
The Pentagon is offering new details of its plan for shifting from a combat mission in Afghanistan to one focused on training and advising Afghan forces as they gradually shoulder more of the combat burden.
Education officials in New Orleans are releasing what they call an "equity report" - data that will show how state-governed schools in New Orleans are performing in a variety of categories including graduation rates,...
Prosecutors have rested their case in the fraud trial of jailed Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford.
The last of the once-ubiquitous FEMA trailers has been removed from New Orleans more than six years after floodwalls and levees broke during Hurricane Katrina and caused the city to flood.
A federal appeals court has refused to overrule a judge who ordered BP PLC and other companies involved in the nation's worst offshore oil spill to set aside up to 6 percent of any settlement or claims payments for the...
Gov. Bobby Jindal wants to tweak the standards for the state's TOPS program to allow soldiers who re-enlist to be eligible for the free college tuition aid when they leave the military.
One of Louis Armstrong's trumpets is part of a new black history display in upstate New York.
The state fire marshal says a mother and daughter were killed in a mobile home fire in Holden while the father and three other children managed to escape.
A federal judge plans to dismiss a two-year-old environmental crimes case against poultry processor House of Raeford Farms and one of its turkey processing plant managers, but is giving prosecutors a chance to revive it...
