BATON ROUGE - The Louisiana House appointed its number two person in charge.
Joel Robideaux of Lafayette won the nomination for speaker pro tem.
The pro tem often presides over House debates when the speaker is absent.
LAFAYETTE - The University of Louisiana-Lafayette introduced their new men's basketball coach Bob Marlin Monday.
The former Sam Houston State coach led his old team to a Southland regular season tournament championship and an NCAA tournament berth
Handguns may be allowed at state parks, churches and near school yards in the future.
Louisiana lawmakers open a session on Monday to discuss loosening regulations on state firearms.
LAFAYETTE - 350 students were honored in the 21st Annual Black Student Achievement Awards reception took place Tuesday night.
Awards were given to students who had a GPA of 3.0 or higher.
The ceremony marked the largest ever by the University o
NEW ORLEANS - Federal charges for a man accused of ripping off investors, including a group of New Orleans Saints.
Wayne Reed is accused of de-frauding 15 Saints players to pay for what they thought would be state movie industry tax cedits.
LAFAYETTE — The EPA is looking into potential health hazards caused by oil and natural gas drilling techniques.
The process known as fracking injects massive amounts of water, sand and chemicals underground that could affect the water supply
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