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The Supreme Court is taking on a major test of LGBT rights in cases that look at whether federal civil rights law bans job discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.

a Louisiana woman has been sentenced to three years and five months in prison for faking her own kidnapping in an attempt to get ransom money.

By MELINDA DESLATTE Associated Press
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A proposal to ban the creation of most new freestanding emergency rooms in Louisiana has won support from state senators, amid concerns the ERs threaten the survival of the state's fragile rural hospitals...

House Republicans blocked passage Tuesday of a $3.8 billion Louisiana public school financing formula, supporting its teacher pay raises but objecting to a separate boost for school districts.

Louisiana voters may get a chance to decide whether to add language into the state constitution establishing that the foundational document doesn't protect abortion rights.

Republican gubernatorial candidate U.S. Rep. Ralph Abraham took in more campaign donations than his GOP competitor Eddie Rispone in the latest fundraising quarter.

New Orleans has become the 16th city to join a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration initiative to fight heroin and prescription drug abuse.

A 71-year-old Louisiana man has been charged with 100 counts of first-degree rape over allegations of criminal sexual conduct involving minors.

A former gymnastics coach who pleaded guilty on Monday to molesting 13 boys has been sentenced to 65 years in prison.

The chief architect of Cologne cathedral says it could take decades to repair the damage caused to the Notre Dame cathedral by a massive fire.

A federal appeals court says a judge was right when he cleared the way to remove a Confederate monument at a north Louisiana courthouse.

Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli, are pleading not guilty to charges they took part in the college admissions bribery scam.