Associated Press

Six state higher education institutions will divide more than $2.7 million.

The first crop is expected to be ready by the end of 2017.

Sylvester Holt is dead after an hours-long standoff on the Crescent City Connection Bridge yesterday.

The boy told police his mother gave him a white pill to go to sleep.

St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff's investigators and Louisiana State Police are investigating the gory discovery.

A man from Ragley was killed in his home after investigators improperly obtained a warrant to search his residence for drugs.

Pres. Obama imposed sanctions on Russian officials and intelligence services in retaliation for Russia's interference in the U.S. presidential election.

A state audit says about $3 million in state-owned hospital equipment remains missing.

Louisiana has one of the highest income inequality rates in the country.

A federal jury has convicted Dylann Roof in the racially motivated slayings of nine black church members in South Carolina.

A Patterson police officer has been hospitalized after he was allegedly stabbed multiple times by a shoplifting suspect.

Authorities have released the identity of the man whose body was found floating in a canal Wednesday near Jennings.