Louisiana State Police Troop D will have additional troopers on patrol this Labor Day holiday.  

U.S. Senator David Vitter today called on Charlie Melancon to apologize to the large number of tea party members and voters in Louisiana for comparing them to the fringe, far-left activist group MoveOn.org.

An oil platform exploded and burned off the Louisiana coast Thursday, the second such disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in less than five months.

Earlier Friday in New Orleans, U.S. Attorney Jim Letten announced  that the former director of aviation at Louis Armstrong International Airport and his wife have been indicted for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and lying to the FBI.

Closed earlier because of the BP oil spill, more than 42-hundred-square-miles of federal waters off the western Louisiana coast were reopened Friday for commercial and recreational fishing.

Authorities are trying to identify a skull and other human remains found in a wooded area in southeast Baton Rouge Sunday afternoon. 

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.