BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The Republican Party can look to Louisiana for a bit of comfort after taking a drubbing in national politics in 2008. Democrats punished the GOP across the country last year,...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — One of the teenagers at the center of the Jena Six civil rights demonstration shot himself amid worries that news reports of his Christmas Eve shoplifting arrest would extinguish...

Gov. Bobby Jindal has named a member of a prominent shipbuilding family as the new chairman of Louisiana's top higher education board.Charlotte Bollinger, the executive vice president of Bollinger Shipyards...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — At a time when Louisiana universities already are having to make budget cuts, some of them may have to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in back sales taxes on student...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana's 2009 wish list for the incoming Obama administration boils down to this: Don't forget us.Three-plus years after hurricanes Katrina and Rita and with billions of dollars...

A plan to begin redirecting revenue generated by the state sales tax on cars and trucks away from the general fund so they can be used to fix roads and bridges has been shelved for now because of Louisiana's...

WASHINGTON (AP) — As the longest recession in a quarter century intensifies, analysts believe the small decline in economic activity in the third quarter has worsened significantly in the current...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana's non-farm employment rose in November, but the figures didn't reflect recent layoffs in Bastrop and Shreveport, the head of the Louisiana Workforce Commission said Tuesday.Non-farm...

DALLAS (AP) — The Federal Emergency Management Agency is investigating how personal information from about 16,000 Hurricane Katrina evacuees in Texas ended up online.FEMA spokesman Terry Monrad in...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation's great migration south and west is slowing, thanks to a housing crisis that is making it hard for many to move.Most southern and western states aren't growing nearly...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Landing such films as Oliver Stone's "W'' and Universal Pictures' "Cirque du Freak," Louisiana set a production record in 2008 with more than 80 major film and television projects.The...