After months of dodging the talk, U.S. Sen. David Vitter says he's weighing whether he'll run to be Louisiana's next governor, with plans to decide by January.
U.S. Sen. David Vitter says state leaders haven't done enough to aggressively pursue food stamp recipients who overspent their balance when the electronic food stamp service was down last month.
The 16-day partial government shutdown came to an end early Thursday morning when President Obama signed into a law a compromise passed by both the House and Senate.
The remaining members in the state's congressional delegation, including Sen. Mary Landrieu, say they are undecided about military intervention as wanted by the president.
BP has announced they have agreed to pay $340 million of the $1 billion that they initially agreed to pay for early restoration through Natural Resources Damage Assessment (NRDA).