A young guard for the New Orleans Pelicans was shot and killed.

Louisana Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) signed the “Blue Lives Matter” bill into law Thursday, making the state the first in the nation where public safety workers are considered a protected class under hate-crime law. In many states, hate crime laws call for additional penalties for those convicted of crimes who targeted victims on the basis of race, ethnicity or religion. Targeting police officers, firefighters and emergency medical service personnel now fall under Louisiana’s hate crime law.

Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards signed an anti-discrimination order on Wednesday protecting the rights of gay and transgender people, aligning his state on the liberal side of a political divide playing out across the U.S. South. The Democrat's executive order also protects state employees against discrimination based on other criteria including race, religion, disability or age. It bans state agencies from discrimination, while offering an exemption for churches and religious organizations.

The GOP’s economic program just decimated two American states. Why haven’t the Party’s presidential candidates been asked to account for that? By Eric Levitz. (Mar. 18)

Three lawyers appointed by the court to help administer the settlement fund were paid, in total, almost $2 million, with one of them making almost half a million dollars for four months of work. By Richard A. Webster.

Journalist David Hanson takes takes us to the Standard Heights neighborhood of Baton Rouge, where the residents and a small army of advocates explain what it’s like to live with house-rattling refinery explosions, salt domes collapsing in barge-eating sinkholes and mysterious flakes falling from the sky.

The death of an unrepentant serial killer at a Louisiana hospital on Thursday prompted an outpouring of emotion. Derrick Todd Lee died five days after he was transported from the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola for emergency care, state prison officials said. An autopsy will be performed. Lee, 47, was on death row for the 2002 murder of Charlotte Murray Pace, 22, and had a second-degree murder conviction for the death of Louisiana State...

A man was arrested Sunday after he allegedly spit on a Baton Rouge Police Officer's hamburger. 

The 32-year-old woman who is accused of fatally stabbing her husband told investigators that he "ran into" her knife during an argument the previous evening, New Orleans police said.

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, and I’ve had a good year. Allow me to share this story of mental health with you.

Seventeen people were injured Sunday night (Nov. 22) after gunfire erupted during a block party at Bunny Friend Park in the Upper 9th Ward, New Orleans Police Department officials said.

"Your endorsement of Edwards is a vehement act of retribution. Your behavior somewhat parallels what might be in the mind frame and actions of an angry and rageful husband," Mr. Egan wrote in the letter.

A man attending a beach wedding Saturday says he was refused service at Destin, Fla., restaurant that evening because he and his group were LSU fans

The legal victory for Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast means the organization can continue providing care for 5,200 Medicaid patients in New Orleans and Baton Rouge.

Several readers have suggested a statue of the country's first celebrity chef would be a fitting replacement for any Confederate general. Here's an immediate idea: Pay respects to the great man by making dinner.

Anyone seen Vitter?

The administration may face a difficult task of avoiding an injunction if a recent court decision in Arkansas is any indication of the outcome.

The affable, bearded celebrity chef who took Cajun cooking from the bayou to the mainstream with his New Orleans restaurant, television shows, cookbooks and culinary products, died on Thursday in New Orleans. He was 75.

The esteemed governor of Louisiana, everyone.

Louisiana had the third-highest rate of poverty in the country for 2014, at 19.8 percent, falling behind only New Mexico and Mississippi.