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Its chemical agent - a concentrated blast of pepper spray fired at a dizzying 405 mph - can disable and disorient an aggressor for 45 minutes or longer.

Louisiana's schools chief vowed on Friday to push ahead with a plan to let students take classes from private firms and nonprofits at taxpayers' expense, despite a legal setback and objections from some educators.

Fresh water is diverted from the Mississippi River into the Davis Pond Freshwater Diversion, where it is ultimately fed into Barataria Bay to help control salinity.

The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development says the improvements will provide broader observation and greater accuracy in measuring the area for movement and subsidence.

Shoppers can prepare for the hurricane season while saving some money during the Louisiana Hurricane Preparedness Sales Tax Holiday this weekend.

Pictured is one of the first editions of the very first Clovis Crawfish book. There have been countless revisions over the years.

After last week's severe weather in Northwest Louisiana, Gov. Bobby Jindal has declared a state of emergency for the area.

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On this day in 1934, wanted outlaws Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker are shot to death by Texas and Louisiana state police officers as they attempt to escape apprehension in a stolen 1934 Ford Deluxe near Bienville Parish, Louisiana.

A Calcasieu Parish man is accused of child pornography possession, according to a news release from Louisiana State Police, Troop D. Accused in the case is 41-year-old Charles B. Compton.

Brett Moree reflected on the lives of some of the seven thousand fallen soldiers at Port Hudson National Cemetery Thursday, as he and his coworker planted American flags at the base of tombstones.

Lionel Alverez is in the Promised Land Cemetery again, taking inventory. He has been coming to this cemetery in Plaquemines Parish, La., all his life.

Lionel Alverez stands at a family tomb in Plaquemines Parish, La. Hurricane Isaac's storm surge split the double-decker tomb in half, leaving his aunt's and sister's caskets on the bottom but washing away his mother's, which was on top.

Louisiana State Police troopers said Powell was driving a 2010 Ford Fusion on March 1, traveling north on La.

The May 10 shooting day for the miniseries " Bonnie & Clyde, " to be broadcast simultaneously later this year on A&E, Lifetime and History, got off to a rough start.

Transportation officials said enhanced monitoring equipment has been installed near the giant sinkhole in southeast Louisiana to better detect any changes.

Louisiana's Republican Party is blasting the legislative auditor's office after both the GOP and the state Democratic Party were asked to turn over financial statements to comply with a long-overlooked law.

The number of International School of Louisiana students at the Camp Street campus who passed state standardized tests showed another slight increase this year, officials said, and praised the scores recorded at the Jefferson Parish expansion campus as a "familiar" baseline to start from.

Ralph "Pie" Sonnier stays busy in his Sulphur workshop, putting together his latest creation, a water well drilling rig.

State Treasurer John Kennedy testifies against the Senate Bill 204, which would authorize the issuance of bonds to finance capital improvements for the Louisiana Community and Technical Colleges System, in front of the House Appropriations Committee on Wednesday, May 22, 2013.