Louisiana

2022 Campaign 11/07/19, 05:29

The president attended a campaign rally on Wednesday night, Nov.6, at the Monroe Civic Center, in Louisiana, and spent a great deal of time scolding the House Democrats for their impeachment inquiry. At his third campaign rally within a week, the president referred to the investigation as a "deranged, delusional, destructive ...

Politics 10/13/19, 04:44

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat, was forced into a runoff in a bid for re-election, where he will face Republican businessman Eddie Rispone. Edwards fell short of the majority needed to clinch re-election in Saturday’s all-party primary. He received 47 percent of the votes cast, unable to pass the ...

Politics 10/12/19, 15:42

In the second campaign rally in as many days, President Donald Trump stressed that the United States is returning to “one glorious nation under God,” and he called for the people of Louisiana to vote for Republicans on the Oct. 12 gubernatorial election to help make America great again. After lashing ...

U.S. 10/12/19, 05:35

Louisiana did one big sign Trump 2020 to welcome President Trump at 7 million square feet of space, the border alone is 2 miles long,  160 acres, and 1/2 mile square. President Donald Trump held a campaign rally in Lake Charles, Louisiana, Friday evening, Oct. 11, to support for Republican ...

Politics 10/02/19, 05:18

President Donald Trump on Tuesday, Oct. 1, called on Louisiana voters to choose Republican runners, Eddie Rispone or Ralph Abraham, instead of Democratic incumbent Gov. John Bel Edwards in the state’s upcoming gubernatorial election. The president was urging local people to vote for one of the two Republicans, less than two ...

U.S. 07/13/19, 12:42

Tropical Storm Barry has been upgraded to a Category 1 hurricane, as of late Saturday morning, with sustained winds reaching 75 miles per hour off the Louisiana coastline. Louisiana has remained in a state of emergency since yesterday evening, as the outer reaches of the storm began to edge their way ...

U.S. 07/12/19, 06:20

President Donald Trump announced a federal declaration of emergency for Louisiana late on Thursday, July 11, in an effort to help the state prevent possible damage from imminent Tropical Storm Barry and put people in urgent situations first. According to AccuWeather, Barry formed on Thursday morning and is spinning through the ...

U.S. 05/30/19, 22:14

Louisiana's Democratic governor signed a ban on abortion as early as six weeks of pregnancy Thursday, a move that puts him squarely in line with the leaders of other conservative Southern states while provoking anger from members of his own party. With his signature, Gov. John Bel Edwards made Louisiana the ...

U.S. 05/02/19, 11:32

The Trump administration has agreed to rewrite regulations to help thousands of Louisiana homeowners with damage from the 2016 floods access federal aid, the state's U.S. senators said Thursday. Republican Sens. Bill Cassidy and John Kennedy said that U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson spoke with them and confirmed ...

U.S. 04/11/19, 07:02

Fires hit three historically African American churches in state of Louisiana

Politics 02/08/19, 18:27

Activists on both sides of the abortion debate are reacting cautiously to a 5-4 Supreme Court vote blocking Louisiana from enforcing new abortion regulations. They agree that the crucial tests of the court's stance are still to come. Depending on the viewpoint, the vote represented a temporary victory or setback — ...

Politics 02/08/19, 02:01

A divided Supreme Court stopped Louisiana from enforcing new regulations on abortion clinics in a test of the conservative court’s views on abortion rights. The justices said by a 5-4 vote late Thursday that they will not allow the state to put into effect a law that requires abortion providers to ...

U.S. 01/30/19, 20:15

EPA and state regulators in Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma say Sunoco Pipelines and its Louisiana partner Mid-Valley Pipeline Company agree to make amends for spills that occurred in 2013, 2014 and 2015

U.S. 12/20/18, 16:07

Even as he touted Louisiana's economic picture, Gov. John Bel Edwards said Thursday that President Donald Trump's tariffs are causing "pain" for agricultural and petrochemical industries and stifling the state's growth. The Democratic governor typically refrains from criticizing the Republican president. But he blamed the tariffs Trump has imposed on certain ...

Sports 09/17/18, 07:34

LSU should be No. 1 in The Associated Press college football poll.