Louisiana News

The state's standardized exams are getting harder to fall in line with new federal standards known as the Common Core - much harder, by all accounts.

This booking photo released by the Webster Parish Sheriffs Office shows Explo Systems President David Fincher of Burns, Tenn., Wednesday, June 19, 2013.

A shoplifter who has emptied the shelves of a South Claiborne convenience store of laundry detergent on several occasions has been captured on surveillance camera, police say, and investigators are now seeking the public's help identifying him.

Cotton, which was once king in Louisiana, now occupies no more acres than grain sorghum in the state's fertile fields.

A judge on Tuesday struck down several exceptions to Louisiana's ban on juveniles possessing handguns, including a little-known provision allowing youngsters to carry handguns as long as they have written permission from a parent.

Since the Great Recession, we have heard endless gloom and doom reports about the economy.

Acadia Parish Assessor James "Jimbo" Petitjean has received the "Certified Louisiana Assessor" designation from the State of Louisiana and the Louisiana Assessor's Association.

Nearly 7,000 marijuana plants were discovered growing in a field in western Vernon Parish, according to a news release from Vernon Parish Sheriff Sam Craft.

I have a serious question: Is Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal high? Because in this otherwise uninteresting op-ed bleating about how the Republican Party needs to stop introspecting so much and just start being awesome, he closes with perhaps the truest statements on what the Republican Party is about, which is fighting against an American "left" ... (more)

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries are offering $3,500 for information leading to the conviction of whoever killed the national birds.

According to the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, the LSP/DEQ Hazmat report indicated the suspected cause of the explosion was a rupture in a 30-inch natural gas line.

An explosion at a gas line or gas plant about 80 miles north of New Orleans knocked out power to about 10,000 customers on Tuesday, according to local reports.

An explosion at a gas line or gas plant about 80 miles north of New Orleans knocked out power to about 10,000 customers on Tuesday, according to local reports.

About 900 teachers are honing their skills this week at a three-day conference at Louisiana College.

Asserts the conservative Republican commentator in D.C .: "Anyone who doubts that the Republican Party can attract black voters need only look south to Louisiana.

Chef Andrew Zimmern even goes so far as to call the Aspen Food and Wine Classic, "The best food weekend of the year!" "It's really become sort of the showcase internationally for all the best food and wine," according to Top Chef judge Gail Simmons.

A French snuff grater, made of boxwood and iron, between 1675 and 1725, which will be featured in the exhibit 'Pipe Dreams,' opening Tuesday and running through Sept.

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

The Louisiana State Penitentiary Museum Foundation will induct seven people into the Louisiana Justice Hall of Fame in ceremonies July 12 at the prison museum and in Baton Rouge.

Last week, Mitchell C. Atkins, who was a regional director and head of FINRA's District 7, in Boca Raton, Florida, resigned after evidence about him surfaced about a 1993 indictment in Louisiana "for felony theft and charitable bingo fraud."