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State Police say a man in Houma has died from injuries he sustained after driving a stolen vehicle into a flower shop.

Lafayette, LA – Officials for Lafayette Consolidated Government and Lafayette Utilities System extend a warm “congratulations” to Kansas City. Google announced Wednesday that Kansas City was selected for the Google Fiber for Communities initiative...

Washington, DC – U.S. Congressman Charles W. Boustany, Jr., MD (R-Southwest Louisiana) today conducted a joint hearing of the Ways and Means Oversight and Health Subcommittees with Congressmen Wally Herger (R-CA) and Dave Reichert (R-WA) to investigate the organizational structure and finances of AARP.

WASHINGTON, DC – Amid pressure on the Coast Guard and Department of Homeland Security from Congressman Jeff Landry (Republican, New Iberia), Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano has finally signed off on Notice of Proposed Rulemaking – safety regulations for towing vessel inspections.

HOUMA, La. (AP) — Police say a man at a Houma bar and casino shot two other men before shooting himself in the head.

NATCHEZ, Miss. (AP) — A Gonzales, La., man has been arrested in the theft of 11 cattle from Adams County.

(Photo By: Scott Olson/Getty Images) BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The January occupancy tax collections in Baton Rouge were $252,090 — 20.5 percent above the budgeted amount.

DULAC, La. (AP) — Students on spring break have again been coming to Louisiana to help clean up lingering damage from Gulf Coast hurricanes.

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — The Caddo Parish School Board has approved a master plan that will close 13 schools.

PLAQUEMINE, La. (AP) — Officials say an Iberville Parish school student has been expelled for taking an inappropriate picture of a classmate in a bathroom, and posting the photo on Facebook.

LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — The decades-old school desegregation lawsuit in St. Landry Parish is expected to come to an end by Monday.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A man charged with gunning down five teenagers in New Orleans is expected to plead no-contest to state manslaughter charges, resolving a case that stunned the city and highlighted its surge in violence after Hurricane Katrina.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — First-time claims for unemployment payments dropped nearly nine percent last week in Louisiana.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The governing board of Louisiana's insurer of last resort has approved an average 6.5 percent annual rate increase for its 119,000 homeowners' policies.

RIVER RIDGE, La. (AP) — Jefferson Parish sheriff's deputies have booked a River Ridge woman with three counts of child desertion after a deputy determined she had left three children, including a five-month-old baby, home alone.

SCHRIEVER, La. (AP) — It was a smaller crowd than organizers hoped for but protesters who gathered for a festival-styled protest near the BP facility in Schriever said their point was made.

HOUSTON (AP) — An industry group has decided to establish a center for offshore safety in Houston nearly a year after the disastrous BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

WASHINGTON – United States Senators Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., and Jim Webb, D-Va., today reintroduced the Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission Act, which aims to ensure suitable commemoration for Civil War's 150th anniversary.

WASHINGTON, DC – In response to a recent U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) regulatory change to apply Notice of Arrival (NOA) regulations to domestic vessels, Congressman Jeff Landry (Republican, New Iberia) sent a letter to USCG Commandant, Admiral Robert Papp, Jr., asking for a reversal of this decision.

LAKE CHARLES, La. -- Today, Gov. Bobby Jindal and Aeroframe Services President and CEO Roger Porter announced Aeroframe will further expand its presence at Chennault International Airport, exceeding its previously projected job creation levels...