Chris Cheramie isn’t a Katrina victim, but he was surprised to learn he is the first person to occupy a home of a kind specifically designed to shelter Louisiana residents displaced by the storm.

Louisiana’s attorney general said Wednesday he plans to appeal a federal judge’s decision to overturn the conviction of a former Black Panther in the 1972 killing of a prison guard.

A federal judge in Louisiana has overturned the conviction of a former Black Panther in the 1972 stabbing death of a prison guard.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal has vetoed a bill that would have doubled salaries for the state’s lawmakers.

Despite a massive effort to repair and upgrade flood defenses since Hurricane Katrina, storm surge could pour over levees in New Orleans if a strong Category 2 or higher hurricane strikes the city, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Monday.

A former Black Panther who was convicted of killing a prison guard in 1972 should get a third trial because his attorney previously failed to object to certain testimony and hire experts for his defense, a federal magistrate said.

John McCain is challenging Barack Obama to join him in 10 town hall meetings with voters between now and the Democratic National Convention in August.

The arrest of three men in the December slayings of two Louisiana State University students brought relief Friday to a campus shaken by the school’s first homicide in more than a decade.

Three young men, including two who had been working offshore in the Gulf of Mexico, have been arrested in the killing of two Louisiana State University graduate students late last year, authorities said Thursday.