The government’s approach to voting rights is changing fast under the new administration, and a complex, closely watched ...

Nearly a dozen blocks of an avenue in Algiers named after a Confederate general would be renamed after an educator and pastor ...

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Louisiana elections use the majority-vote system. All candidates compete in the same primary, and a candidate can win the election outright by receiving more than 50 percent of the vote. If no ...

(AP) — A federal judge has blocked the enforcement of a Louisiana law that makes it ... Friday granting a preliminary injunction, U.S. District Judge John deGravelles said that the police ...

(AP) — An arrest warrant has been issued for a New York doctor indicted on Friday by a Louisiana grand jury ... Grand jurors at the District Court for the Parish of West Baton Rouge unanimously ...

Google Maps will display the name “Gulf of America” instead of the “Gulf of Mexico” for U.S. users once official government sources are updated to reflect the name change ordered by ...

A baby shark was hatched at a Louisiana aquarium despite there being no male sharks in the tank for three years, the aquarium said. Footage released by the Shreveport Aquarium on Friday, January 24, ...

On a recent winter afternoon in downtown Truckee, the sun dipped behind the mountains as a full moon rose above Donner Pass Road, the California city’s main thoroughfare. As the temperature ...

RUSTON, La. (AP) — Daniel Batcho's 18 points helped Louisiana Tech defeat Western Kentucky 77-67 on Thursday night. Batcho shot 5 of 7 from the field and 8 for 14 from the line for the Bulldogs ...