Associated Press

Donald "Doc" Hines, a physician who led the Louisiana Senate as president from 2004 to 2008, died Tuesday after a long illness. He was 85.

The Dominican Republic's lead prosecutor says former Red Sox slugger David Ortiz was not the target of a shooting in a nightclub in his hometown on June 9.

A 22-year-old man has been arrested in connection with three apparently random shooting deaths in a New Orleans suburb

Louisiana never had sizable sums set aside to buy the thousands of new voting machines it needs.

Shrimping in Mississippi waters opens Thursday.

Gov. John Bel Edwards, the only Democratic governor in the Deep South, said Tuesday that he's not concerned about losing support among his party's voters in Louisiana because of a strict abortion ban he signed into law.

Federal prosecutors say the suspect in three Louisiana church arsons took photos and videos of the fires while they were burning and shared them with his friends.

Weekend memorial services have been scheduled in New Orleans for singer and musician Malcom "Mac" Rebennack Jr., better known by his Voodoo-inspired stage name, Dr. John.

After decades of improvement, America's air may not be getting any cleaner.

Gov. John Bel Edwards has signed Louisiana's $30 billion operating budget at an elementary school where he hailed the first statewide public school teacher raise in a decade.

The public defenders' office in New Orleans has launched an online fundraising campaign to help pay for books and telephone calls for jailed defendants.

Nearly one-quarter of this year's Miss Louisiana contestants are students at the school that's hosting the competition this week.