The Lafayette City-Parish Council will hear an appeal Tuesday from the owners of a popular downtown Lafayette nightclub facing a three-day suspension of its permit to serve alcoholic beverages. 

State police have revealed the identities of five Iberia Parish sheriff's deputies who were involved in the shooting death of a New Iberia man Wednesday night after a standoff lasting nearly three hours. 

Earl is now being called a hurricane after reaching winds of 85-miles-per-hour while churning toward islands in the eastern Caribbean.

The U.S. Department of Education awards a 170-million-dollar grant to a consortium of 26 states, including Louisiana, to develop new common assessments for public school students.

An early morning fire Thursday in the 2200 block of Curtis Street kept Baton Rouge firefighters busy for a while. 

Baton Rouge police report that officers responded to a shooting about 3:30 Thursday morning in the 1500 block of North Marque Ann Drive where they found a black male lying in a parking lot who had been shot. 

A bench-clearing brawl in Miami made news as the Marlins outslugged the Nationals 16-10 Wednesday night. 

The Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against Arizona's controversial Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

Israelis and Palestinians have now planned to meet for peace talks every two weeks.