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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- A legal challenge against a first-of-its-kind measure that recategorized two widely used abortion -inducing drugs as "controlled dangerous substances" in Louisiana can move forward, a judge ruled Thursday.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Arguments surrounding first-of-its-kind legislation that categorizes two widely used abortion -inducing drugs as "controlled dangerous substances" in Louisiana are scheduled to take place before a state judge Thursday morning.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- As 18-year-old Bobby Gumpright rode his bike home from his bartending job in New Orleans in 1999, he began to concoct a story about why he didn't have any money. In the throes of addiction and not wanting to admit he had spent his paycheck on drugs, Gumpright lied to his father and said a...
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Kseniia Petrova never imagined she would face significant immigration issues, but it has been 68 days since she was detained at the Boston airport while traveling with undeclared frog embryo samples.
JENA, La. (AP) -- An immigration judge in Louisiana said she will decide later this week whether the government can continue to detain Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University activist facing deportation for his role in pro-Palestinian campus protests.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- A judge has ordered Louisiana State University to fully reinstate a professor who was removed from his teaching duties last month after he used vulgar language to criticize Gov. Jeff Landry and President Donald Trump during a lecture.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Louisiana Treasurer John Fleming, a Republican and appointee of Donald Trump's during his first term as president, has announced that he will run for U.S. Senate in the hopes of unseating current member Bill Cassidy, also a Republican, who is up for reelection in 2026.
BATON ROUGE, LA. (AP) -- A new Louisiana law that requires the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public classroom by Jan. 1 has been temporarily blocked after a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction on Tuesday.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- In a critical election year, Democrats are looking to flip a once reliably Republican Louisiana congressional seat, where political boundaries were recently redrawn to form the state's second mostly Black congressional district.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- A federal judge heard arguments at a hearing Monday on whether he should temporarily block a new Louisiana law that requires the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public school classroom by Jan. 1.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- A federal judge on Monday will hear arguments on whether he should temporarily block a new Louisiana law requiring that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom by Jan. 1.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry says that he plans to call the Legislature into a special session in November, marking the third such gathering this year, with the hopes of overhauling the state's current tax system that the Republican said is failing residents.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Louisiana is the latest red state to announce additional measures to ensure that non-U.S. citizens are not voting in elections, despite it already being illegal and there being no evidence of widespread voter fraud.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- A slew of Louisiana legislation, including a first-of-its-kind law that allows judges to impose the punishment of surgical castration for offenders guilty of certain sex crimes against children, went into effect Thursday.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Poised to flip a once reliably Republican congressional seat in Louisiana, Democrats' are placing their hopes with state Sen. Cleo Fields, who has been a fixture in state politics for more than three decades and is looking to return to Congress.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Even as a legal challenge is already underway over a new Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in classrooms, the details of how the mandate will be implemented and enforced remain murky.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Louisiana has long been reliably red. The Bayou State has voted for the Republican candidate in every presidential election since 2000, with residents overwhelmingly supporting Donald Trump during the past two, and the GOP has held a majority in the statehouse for years.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Louisiana has long been reliably red. The Bayou State has voted for the Republican candidate in every presidential election since 2000, with residents overwhelmingly supporting Donald Trump during the past two, and the GOP has held a majority in the statehouse for years.