Jean Lafitte News

Jean Baptiste Lafitte may have been the most successful pirate to ever sail the blue Caribbean.

According to the commercials, "Texas is a whole other country." If that is true, Louisiana is a whole other planet.

An oil company exploration crew's chance discovery of a 200-year-old shipwreck in a little-charted stretch of the Gulf of Mexico is yielding a trove of new information to scientists who say it's one of the most well-preserved old wrecks ever found in the Gulf.

A team of scientists and technicians have uncovered the remnants of a shipwreck thought to be hundreds of years old about 200 miles off the coast of Louisiana, a scene complete with artifacts like navigational equipment, glass bottles, ceramic plates, and boxes of muskets.

The reason our country is in perilous times is in 1 Timothy 6-10: "For the love of money is the... METAIRIE, La.

Dave Myers, of Central, says our mention of the World Book Encyclopedia "reminded me of my freshman year at Catholic High in 1971.

Health care services in southeastern Louisiana will get a major share of the $104 million in grant money included in the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill settlement, according to papers filed in federal court on Thursday.

Lake Charles is on Interstate 10, about midway between Houston and New Orleans .