Former President Barack Obama condemned a Supreme Court ruling that struck down a Louisiana congressional district as an illegal racial gerrymander, calling it an attack on minority voting rights.
Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry (R) sent a letter to school superintendents, directing them to display the Ten Commandments in light of a recent court ruling permitting them to be placed in classrooms.
A mayoral pool party scandal has taken center stage in a Louisiana courtroom as former DeRidder Mayor Misty Roberts stands trial on serious felony charges.
Authorities in Louisiana are intensifying their search for the last of three inmates who staged a dramatic escape from the St. Landry Parish Jail using tied bed sheets and a crumbling jail wall.
