Two disgruntled Louisiana newlyweds have called for the dismissal of a justice of the peace who refused to marry the interracial couple, and have even been joined in their fight by the governor, who said the official's license should be revoked.
Five people were killed when their boat struck a barge in southern Louisiana, the Terrebonne Parish sheriff said Thursday.
A noose was found Wednesday on the desk of an African-American supervisor at the Louisiana Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, according to the agency's director.
Four weeks and four days after the November 4 elections, it's Election Day all over again in Louisiana.
Authorities say they confiscated documents related to the Ku Klux Klan from the Louisiana home of a man accused of killing a woman who tried to join the group.
For the first time since losing custody, the pop star takes Preston and Jayden out of state
Jamie Spears insists in his daughter's driving-without-a-California-license trial that she plans to return to the South
The environmental damage of Hurricane Ike is only now becoming apparent: At least a half million gallons of crude oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico
The federal government is "working with great urgency" to restore one-third of the households in Louisiana that still have no power days after after Hurricane Gustav, the chief of Homeland Security said Friday.
The governor of hurricane-battered Louisiana said Wednesday that the prospect of some areas of the state being without electricity for weeks, as power company officials have warned, is unacceptable.
Two disgruntled Louisiana newlyweds have called for the dismissal of a justice of the peace who refused to marry the interracial couple, and have even been joined in their fight by the governor, who said the official's license should be revoked.
Five people were killed when their boat struck a barge in southern Louisiana, the Terrebonne Parish sheriff said Thursday.
A noose was found Wednesday on the desk of an African-American supervisor at the Louisiana Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, according to the agency's director.
Four weeks and four days after the November 4 elections, it's Election Day all over again in Louisiana.
Authorities say they confiscated documents related to the Ku Klux Klan from the Louisiana home of a man accused of killing a woman who tried to join the group.
For the first time since losing custody, the pop star takes Preston and Jayden out of state
Jamie Spears insists in his daughter's driving-without-a-California-license trial that she plans to return to the South
The environmental damage of Hurricane Ike is only now becoming apparent: At least a half million gallons of crude oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico
The federal government is "working with great urgency" to restore one-third of the households in Louisiana that still have no power days after after Hurricane Gustav, the chief of Homeland Security said Friday.
The governor of hurricane-battered Louisiana said Wednesday that the prospect of some areas of the state being without electricity for weeks, as power company officials have warned, is unacceptable.
The Associated Press has learned that some 800 patients in a dozen Louisiana hospitals may have to be evacuated in the next three days because the facilities do not have air conditioning
With Hurricane Gustav bearing down on their state, Louisiana delegates to the Republican National Convention on Sunday were torn between party duty and concern for family back home.
As another storm heads its way, New Orleans is still vulnerable -- but not quite as vulnerable as it was before Katrina
The remnants of Tropical Storm Fay spread over a wide swath of the South on Monday, bringing heavy rain and wind as forecasters warned of possible flash flooding and tornadoes from Louisiana to Georgia
Some of the $85 million in hurricane relief supplies given away as federal surplus will be sent back to Louisiana and given to nonprofit agencies for distribution, the state's hurricane recovery office said Tuesday.
Fertilizer and other agricultural waste pouring into the Gulf of Mexico creates a larger and larger patch of lifeless ocean each year. Finally, the EPA has a plan of attack. Is it enough?
Sen. Barack Obama's dominant coast-to-coast performance this weekend set a new tone for the post-Super Tuesday phase of an unprecedented struggle for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Louisiana Republicans looking for a candidate who shares their values or says what he believes cast their ballots for former Baptist preacher Mike Huckabee during Saturday's GOP primary, exit polls showed.
A Louisiana teenager was arrested Tuesday for allegedly planning to hijack a Southwest Airlines jet and crash it into a Hannah Montana concert scheduled for Friday night in Lafayette, Louisiana, CNN reports.
Authorities have charged a teenage boy who said he planned to hijack a commercial jetliner in an attempt to commit suicide, an FBI spokesman told CNN late Thursday.
The media spotlight might have shone most intensely on Jena, Louisiana, but a symbol of racial violence has been hung across America lately, spurring anger, resentment and a big question.
The young Republican Congressman cruises to victory as the nation's first Indian-American governor
Texas Gov. Rick Perry declared Galveston, Jefferson and Orange counties disaster areas Thursday in the wake of Hurricane Humberto, a quick-forming storm that hit the state with surprising intensity.
Pinal County, Ariz., was the fastest-growing housing market in the nation last year, according to a report released by the U.S. Census Bureau Wednesday.
Ask New Orleanians how their city is faring these days, and their responses follow an eerily consistent arc. They begin with gratitude that you bothered asking and then move on to recitations of all the good that's going on.
Hike up those pants. Droopy drawers that bare skin or underwear might soon be forbidden fashion on the streets of several cities, and violators could be forced to part with some cash.
As Louisiana insurance commissioner, Jim Donelon has heard it all - the stories of quadrupling premiums, abrupt cancellations, disappearing carriers, denied claims. Consumers and business owners in this hurricane-battered region can recite all the reasons they want him to make property coverage more affordable, more available, and more effective. Donelon favors solutions that encourage competition, including adding Louisiana to the growing list of states that permit businesses to band together to create their own locally based "captive" insurance companies. Louisiana's enabling legislation is scheduled to be introduced next spring.
Port Fourchon feels like the edge of the world. As you drive south on Louisiana Highway 1 through Bayou Lafourche, open marshes seem to stretch endlessly until you reach this spot, 60 miles below New Orleans. There, the marsh once known as trembling prairie meets the Gulf of Mexico.
Silver-haired and 62, Jim Donelon has never worked so hard. The New Orleans-born lawyer and politician has suddenly become a traveling salesman of sorts. His pitch: "Come sell insurance in New Orleans."
The New Orleans mayor could fill a vacuum if the state's most influential African-American politician goes down
About half of New Orleans' residents have returned since Hurricane Katrina, but red tape and race and class issues have held up recovery efforts, Mayor Ray Nagin said Monday.
They don't make a sound. They just appear as a burst of pink. But in this flat world of tan grasses and steel-gray water, a wave of roseate spoonbills against a bright blue sky sets off visual alarms as arresting as lightning flashes.
At least four tornadoes were reported to have touched down Monday morning in southeast Texas and southern Louisiana, the National Weather Service said.
Ruthie Frierson's dining room does not look like the birthplace of a populist rebellion. The room is quiet, insulated from any street noise, with treatments in heavy fabric around the windows.
The swampland of coastal Louisiana, often thought of as a folkloric backwater, is in fact the nation's most important petrochemical complex: an archipelago of some 4,000 oil and gas platforms.
Generally speaking, Foster Creppell is not out to change the system. His main gripe about corporate America is that not enough of it stays at Woodland Plantation, the antebellum mansion in Plaquemines Parish that he has transformed into an elegant country bed-and-breakfast. (You may know what Woodland looks like: Its portrait adorns the label of Southern Comfort liqueur.)
Leif Garrett was sentenced to 90 days in jail and three years' probation after opting out of a drug treatment program.
New Orleanians are trying to elect a mayor Saturday in a poll in which voters -- six in 10 of whom no longer reside in the city -- have to choose between 21 candidates.
The Gulf Coast will be widely and quickly evacuated this hurricane season, even if the storm doesn't threaten to smash levees and leave a metropolis under water, state and federal officials said Tuesday.
One of three canine search-and-rescue teams trained to look for bodies left by Hurricane Katrina plans to leave New Orleans after just a few days on the job, because there won't be a hotel room to stay in, the men said Wednesday.
Three days after officials inspected a storm-damaged home spray-painted with "0" -- indicating no bodies inside -- cadaver dogs led searchers to a victim of Hurricane Katrina in the attic.
Is it too soon for a city devastated by Hurricane Katrina to hold a party? CNN.com asked readers to share their views. Here is a selection of some responses that said it was too early to hold Mardi Gras following the destruction of Katrina. Some of the responses have been edited.
As the festive spirit of Mardi Gras descends on the Big Easy, some of the nation's top retail chains are adding to the cheer by saying that they're still committed to opening more stores in areas of the Gulf coast that were walloped by last year's twin hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
I wasn't ready to leave -- there was still work left to do.
The head of a Louisiana state agency given responsibility for coordinating the evacuation of at-risk populations during emergencies has told Senate investigators that no evacuation plans were in place before Hurricane Katrina struck in August.
Louisiana officials working to identify the last 170 unknown victims of Hurricane Katrina are getting help from seasoned Bosnian DNA experts.
Hurricane Katrina and the flooding that followed devastated many homes, buildings and, in some cases, entire neighborhoods, leaving residents and government officials to decide whether -- and how -- to rebuild.
Development and storms have eroded much of the coastal wetlands that provide "speed bumps" for approaching storms. CNN.com asked readers whether steps should be taken to rebuild them. Here is a sampling of those responses, some of which have been edited:
When and how to end one's life is one of the most emotionally charged and divisive issues of our times.
President Bush toured ravaged parts of Louisiana on Tuesday, six weeks after Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast.
Officials in Louisiana have identified only about 200 of the more than 1,000 people killed in Hurricane Katrina, and less than half of those have been released to their families, the state's top emergency medical official said Monday.
Hundreds of thousands of businesses and individuals in the region hit by Hurricane Katrina are on the brink of a financial disaster as money to pay workers dries up, banks get tougher on borrowers who were allowed to skip payments immediately after the storm and the flow of government assistance is slowed by bureaucratic snafus, according to a published report.
The White House said Wednesday it would ask Congress to allow federal funds to be used to pay the salaries of first responders in Louisiana parishes left strapped for cash by Hurricane Katrina.
As Hurricane Katrina-ravaged cities begin the laborious process of rebuilding, there is increasing speculation that government officials may turn to the controversial - and often disparaged - use of eminent domain to revitalize the destroyed region.
Hurricane Katrina and the flooding that followed devastated many homes, buildings and, in some cases, entire neighborhoods, leaving residents and government officials to decide whether -- and how -- to rebuild.
Louisiana's attorney general said Monday that authorities have discovered another body at the New Orleans-area nursing home that failed to evacuate its residents in the face of Hurricane Katrina, bringing the total number who died there to 35.
In sometimes heated testimony before a congressional committee Tuesday, former Federal Emergency Management Agency chief Michael Brown blamed Louisiana's leaders for dragging their heels last month as Hurricane Katrina approached the Gulf Coast.
Louisiana officials believe they can identify about half of the 783 bodies brought so far to the St. Gabriel morgue.
Emergency officials have been stunned by the damage caused by Hurricane Rita in some Louisiana parishes and in east Texas.
CNN's Lisa Goddard in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana Posted: 6:35 p.m. ET
Here are the latest numbers from the National Hurricane Center's 5 p.m. ET Saturday advisory on Tropical Storm Rita.
The remnants of what had been Hurricane Rita dragged closer to their demise, but residual winds, flooding threats and darkness have forced an end to search-and-rescue efforts in southwest Louisiana.
Metropolitan New Orleans was included in a tropical storm warning Thursday, as the Army Corps of Engineers fretted over how much rain the city's fragile levees could take.
The number of deaths in Louisiana blamed on Hurricane Katrina has risen to 799, the state's Department of Health and Hospitals said Wednesday, bringing the overall death toll to 1,033.
A weakened but still powerful Hurricane Rita altered its course Thursday to threaten residents in southwest Louisiana and southeast Texas, where highways were overloaded with frustrated evacuees.
Army Lt. Gen. Russel Honore -- the colorful leader of the military's response to Hurricane Katrina -- said that the joint task force mission was nearing its end stage, barring any further destruction from Hurricane Rita.
Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco asked President Bush to declare an emergency for her state Tuesday ahead of Hurricane Rita's arrival somewhere on the Gulf Coast.
Louisiana officials working to rebuild families torn apart by Hurricane Katrina are being especially challenged in trying to locate some 500 foster children still unaccounted for by guardians.
Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco vowed Wednesday evening to rebuild New Orleans and other areas of her state devastated by Hurricane Katrina so more than 1 million displaced residents can come home.
Conditions seemed to be improving in the New Orleans area Wednesday, more than two weeks after Hurricane Katrina ripped across the Gulf Coast, and Louisiana's governor pledged, "We will rebuild."
Many of the 4,000 Web sites claiming to offer help to victims of Hurricane Katrina are suspicious, the Justice Department said Tuesday.
Hurricane Katrina displaced one-quarter of the teachers in the New Orleans area and several districts will have to rebuild, Louisiana's education chief said.
As education officials assess damage and begin rebuilding plans, schools across the country have opened their doors to students displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
Hurricane Katrina victims may find themselves with little more than the clothes on their back. Starting over is challenging especially without any documents proving your identity. It may be difficult getting your local banker to recognize you.
Posted: 5:01 p.m. ET CNN's Manav Tanneeru in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Ever since Hurricane Katrina slammed into the region on last week hundreds of thousands of Louisiana and Mississippi residents have been forced to leave their homes.
Oil prices tumbled nearly $2 Tuesday to back where they were before Hurricane Katrina slammed into oil facilities and forced most production in the Gulf of Mexico to shut down last week.
Posted: 7:15 p.m. ET CNN's Sean Callebs in Houston, Texas
Nearly a week after Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, military helicopters circled above New Orleans on Sunday to drop supplies and rescue people trapped in the nearly deserted city.
A busload of evacuees fleeing the Hurricane Katrina flooding overturned Friday north of Lafayette, Louisiana.
In a five-day, tabletop exercise last summer, emergency preparedness officials faced an imaginary "worst-case scenario" in which a hurricane hit the New Orleans, Louisiana, area.
Two major suppliers of gasoline to the eastern seaboard of the United States have resumed partial service, and two other crucial pipelines were operating at partial capacities Thursday.
Louisiana's education superintendent has asked school districts across the state to accommodate thousands of students displaced by Hurricane Katrina and urged displaced teachers to apply for work in the areas where they have taken shelter.
Posted: 5:28 p.m. ET CNN's Ed Lavandera in Kenner, Louisiana
Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco said Thursday she has requested the mobilization of 40,000 National Guard troops to restore order and assist in relief efforts in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans.
President Bush spoke Wednesday at the White House after meeting with his Cabinet about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. This is a transcript of his remarks:
One of two pipeline companies supplying gasoline to the eastern seaboard of the United States said Wednesday it hopes to be back in partial operation soon. The other pipeline is still waiting for an indication on when electricity to pumps will be restored.
Posted: 4:12 p.m. ET CNN's Jeanne Meserve in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
In 1926 and 1927, the Mississippi River, heavy from months of rain, started bursting its banks.
The following are some helpful Web sites and phone numbers for the Louisiana area:
Victims of Hurricane Katrina -- some of whom escaped with only their lives -- soon will get help from a massive federal relief effort led by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Pentagon.
Hundreds of thousands of refugees from Hurricane Katrina holed up with friends and family across the South probably have one question foremost on their minds: When can I go home?
Louisiana officials Monday urged the hundreds of thousands of people in the state who fled Hurricane Katrina to stay where they are.
Hurricane Katrina intensified Sunday to a Category 5 storm as it churned towards the U.S. Gulf Coast with maximum sustained winds of 160 mph.
Hurricane Katrina was packing winds of up to 145 mph early Sunday as it approached the U.S. Gulf Coast, the National Hurricane Center said early Sunday.
Hurricane Katrina will make a "big shift" to the west on its way across the Gulf of Mexico and is expected to reach dangerous Category 4 intensity before making landfall Monday afternoon in Mississippi or Louisiana, the National Hurricane Center said Friday.
Police have arrested the pastor of a defunct church in Ponchatoula, Louisiana, his wife and six former congregants in a sexual abuse case involving as many as 24 children, authorities said.
The carnival season is upon us and millions of revelers are revving up.
Republicans picked up a congressional seat in southern Louisiana on Saturday, but gave another right back to Democrats in a second, much closer runoff election that was also in Cajun country.
Republican challenger John Thune beat Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, adding a South Dakota Senate seat to GOP gains in Georgia, Florida, Louisiana and the Carolinas.
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