NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Tiztasitic galloped past three horses down the stretch to win the $1 million Louisiana Derby by two lengths on Saturday, earning the Steve Asmussen-trained horse enough ...

ANGOLA, La. (AP) — Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put a man to death Tuesday evening for a killing decades ago, marking the first time the state has used the method as it resumed executions after a 15 ...

ANGOLA, La. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a last-ditch effort to block Louisiana’s first execution using nitrogen gas, declining to intervene by a 5-4 vote shortly before a man was to be put ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana's first execution using nitrogen gas is set to move forward as planned next week after a federal appeals court on Friday overturned a preliminary injunction ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Appeals court allows Louisiana to move forward with state's first execution using nitrogen gas next week.

SHREVEPORT, La - He was one of the most important political figures from north Louisiana in our lifetime: Charles Elson Roemer III. But everybody knew him as "Buddy," or Gov. Roemer or Congressman ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana woman pleads not guilty Tuesday to a felony, after allegedly getting abortion pills from a New York doctor and giving them to her teenage daughter to ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Mid-City Bayou Boogaloo is heading back to Bayou St. John for an 18th year of music, food, art and fun. Festival organizers said the three-day event will take place on May ...

LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — Jamal West scored four of his 17 points in overtime and Nicholls rallied to beat Incarnate Word 74-70 on Monday night in a Southland Conference Tournament quarterfinal.

Brian James, the founding guitarist for the visionary and influential U.K. punk band The Damned, has died. He was 70. James’ death on March 6 was confirmed on his official Facebook page, though ...

On March 6, Bayou la Roux in downtown Troy announced that it would be closing down indefinitely. The Louisiana native attended the Louisiana Culinary Institute and worked as a chef in Monroe and Baton ...