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Dressed as Betsy Ross, Stacy Hargenrader, 53, speaks during the Houma Tea Party rally Saturday along Main Street in Downtown Houma.

As temperatures and the heat index rise to dangerous levels this week across Louisiana, some citizens will get relief thanks to a Public Service Commission order affecting power companies.

In their first meeting since an eighth-grader fired a gun at a teacher then killed himself at Larose-Cut Off Middle, officials are considering more cameras for that school.

The death of a 15-year-old student authorities say planned a Columbine-style killing spree at Larose-Cut Off Middle School last week has, in turn, saved multiple lives, Lafourche Sheriff Craig Webre said.

Mike Tyson's four-year-old daughter Exodus died yesterday in Phoenix. She had accidentally strangled herself when she got tangled in a cord from an exercise machine while her mother was cleaning in another room of their house.

AP Police and emergency officials arrive at Larose-Cut Off Middle School in Larose, La., Monday, May 18, Mon May 25, 2:23 pm ET THIBODAUX, La.

The 8th grade student from LaRose Cut-Off Middle School in Lafourche parish died Saturday Morning according to the Lafourche Coroner's office.

School and law enforcement officials tightened security at the Larose/Cut Off Middle School on Tuesday, a day after a student barged into a classroom with a gun and tried to shoot a teacher.

According to New Orleans' CBS affiliate WWL-TV , authorities have released a number of disturbing items owned by the 15-year-old student at Larose-Cut Off Middle School in Louisiana who shot himself in the head on school grounds Monday morning , moments after firing at a teacher who refused his order to praise Marilyn Manson .

Larose-Cut Off Middle School students line up Tuesday while waiting to go through a metal detector before attending classes.

Authorities identify the middle-school student who threatened a teacher and then shot himself as eight-grader Justin Doucet.

LAROSE, La. - Authorities say a student shot himself in the head at a Louisiana middle school after he fired at a teacher and missed.Sgt. Lesley Peters, a spokeswoman for the Lafourche Parish Sheriff's Office, says the student shot at the teacher Monday inside Larose-Cut Off Middle School.

A Raceland man allegedly shot a woman to death in an argument over money, the Lafourche Parish Sheriff's Office reported Tuesday.

Lafourche Parish Sheriff Craig Webre says authorities are investigating the shooting death of a 37-year-old Cut Off woman.

Tax credits and infrastructure incentives have made Louisiana attractive to the film industry.

Fourteen of the 108 nursing homes required to update their emergency plans by March 1 failed to meet that deadline.

The world premiere of the first play by filmmakers Glen Pitre and Michelle Benoit will also be a month-long film festival.

In January, the NORD/NOBA Center for Dance returned to Faubourg Treme to offer tuition-free dance classes for local youth.

Port Fourchon Harbor Police say they arrested two workers from a marine-contracting company for attempting to use fake port identification cards.

Louisiana State Police have identified the fugitive driver facing prosecution in the hit-and-run death of a Lafourche Parish man on the day after Christmas, according to a news release.