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Beginning next year, a lot of Louisiana high school classrooms could look like Wes Sebren's: equipped with welding gear, safety goggles and circular saws.
Before two hurricanes hit in three years, a collection of modest beach houses and trailers along the Gulf known as the "Cajun Riviera" drew thousands for summer weekends of crabbing, beer drinking and kids playing in the surf.
A former financial adviser with R. Allen Stanford's financial company told a U.S. Senate panel on Monday that she warned the Securities and Exchange Commission about the firm's hawking of shady investments five years before it closed the firm and accused the Texas billionaire of running a Ponzi scheme.
Indicted U.S. Rep. William Jefferson's election loss may have cost him more than just his congressional seat.
Gory and bucolic all at once, cockfights have drawn crowds to small-time pits and full-blown arenas in towns around Louisiana for generations. By next week, they'll be against the law. Everywhere.
A machete-wielding man held sheriff's deputies at bay for two hours outside the Rev. Jimmy Swaggart's headquarters on Tuesday before officers broke into his truck and arrested him.
A state Senate panel rejected a bill on Tuesday that would make it a crime to wear one's pants too low, even as Cajun-country towns around Louisiana have been banning saggy pants from their streets.
Gov. Bobby Jindal, who has pushed for tougher ethics laws, acknowledged Thursday that his gubernatorial campaign missed a deadline to report financial help from the state Republican Party and agreed to pay a $2,500 ethics fine.
Two former Black Panthers held in solitary confinement in a Louisiana prison since the 1970s have been transferred into quarters with other inmates, state corrections officials said Wednesday.
A woman whose daughter killed two fellow students in a college classroom before committing suicide said Saturday she'll be "haunted to the end of my days for what my child has done."
A man held 26 years behind bars for rape has been released after DNA evidence proved he was falsely convicted.
The 2006 fire that badly damaged the high school in this east-central Louisiana town had nothing to do with the racial tension that led to a civil rights demonstration, a law enforcement official said Friday.
Anger over a divorce settlement may have driven a 63-year-old Baptist deacon to shoot five people in a law office, killing two, then exchange gunfire with police during a standoff, authorities said Friday.
Police shot and killed a man early Friday after an hours-long standoff in which he shot five people at downtown law office, killing two of them, authorities said.
Mychal Bell exited the courthouse, free for the first time in 10 months. He was cheered by a crowd that included the Rev. Al Sharpton.
The prosecutor in the "Jena 6" cases has decided not to challenge a ruling that sent 17-year-old Mychal Bell's case to juvenile court.
Louisiana will ban cockfighting next year, becoming the last state to outlaw the blood sport, under a bill approved Wednesday by the Legislature.
By dropping her bid for re-election, Gov. Kathleen Blanco has triggered discussions about how her replacement should lead the stumbling hurricane recovery.
A state law that would ban sales of violent video games to minors violates free speech rights and cannot be enforced, a judge ruled.
Years ago, Vicki Woods felt comfortable leaving her young son and daughter with Robert Charles Browne. He baby-sat them, taught them to fish and held festive parties. Then, he suddenly vanished. More than two decades later, Woods finally learned what became of him: Already serving a life sentence in Colorado for killing a teenager, Browne claims he killed an additional 48 people across the country, including three in Coushatta.
The father of a man accused in a terrorism plot to blow up Chicago's Sears Tower said Saturday he was at a loss to explain how his son was suspected of leading such a group.
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