Louisiana News

Logansport's Public Works Superintendent Rex Clark was scrambling Friday to ensure backup plans for the town's water supply won't be compromised by the rising Sabine River.

The Louisiana Supreme Court has ordered the removal of a Jefferson Parish judge accused of letting her relationships with a fellow judge and a plaintiff's attorney dictate her decision in a case.

Pixel Magic, which provides digital visual effects for motion pictures and television, will open a studio in Lafayette.

Kleinpeter Farms Dairy has expanded its ice cream sales into north Louisiana, which will be followed in about a year by sales there of the dairy's milk.

The US Senate killed Sen. David Vitter's attempt to require the 2010 Census to insert an amendment denying all funding in a Commerce funding bill unless it included a question regarding the status of US citizenship.

While Concordia, Tensas and four other parishes were declared disaster areas earlier this week due to spring and early summer flooding, an announcement of an emergency declaration for drought is expected soon.

Over the past decade, Louisiana has made considerable progress in K-12 public education, particularly in efforts to narrow the achievement gap between races and classes.

BATON ROUGE - State Superintendent of Education Paul Pastorek says he hopes to take some of the mystery out of the state's possible participation in the federal "Race to the Top' program at a three-hour conference tomorrow starting at 1 p.m. Pastorek says he expects superintendents, principals, teachers, parents, business people and others ...

This is part 2 of our recent Blues Road Trip from Memphis to New Orleans down Highway 61.

Newspapers report on health issues at the state level, including Louisiana's struggles with a Medicaid shortfall and the Texas governor's criticism of congressional health care reform efforts.

The Louisiana Association for the Blind today announced it has supplied the more than 10,000 square feet of SKILCRAFT /3M Safety Walk Slip Resistant Material for the USS New York , an amphibious transport dock ship built and delivered by Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding -- Gulf Coast's Avondale shipyard.

Residents might associate the nutria with things that make south Louisiana unique, but the swamp rat is really is a world-class pest.

The agency that manages Louisiana's vehicles doesn't ensure the state only buys cars it needs and doesn't properly monitor the ones the state does own, according to an audit released Monday.

The Central Louisiana Chamber of Commerce got what it wanted and more out of its first membership drive in eight years.

The scheduled Nov. 4 meeting of the Public Relations Association of Louisiana, Central Louisiana chapter, has been canceled.

The New York Times reports on unlikely Medicaid fraud suspects including a Manhattan painter and mime with properties in the Hamptons, a freelance artist whose two Manhattan apartments are valued at more than $1 million each and a dentist in the Bronx, all "were among 11 people indicted recently on charges that they fraudulently obtained Medicaid ...

In the wake of the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009 , which was enacted by Congress on May 20, 2009 and expands the federal False Claims Act, the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals announced on October 29, 2009, a new fraud initiative against agencies who deliver in-home direct care to Medicaid beneficiaries.

Fifteen minutes before he was shot down, U.S. Sen. Huey Long turns toward Louisiana state House Speaker Allen Ellender of Montegut at the speaker's rostrum in the statehouse Sept.

Authorities have boosted the reward from $35,000 to $85,000 for information about whoever dumped the bodies of eight women in rural Jefferson Davis Parish since 2005.

Instead of worrying about whether it has too many state universities, Louisiana needs to concentrate on making the ones it has the best they can be, says an out-of-state expert who is serving on a state review panel.