A number of suburban New Orleans communities may be declared ineligible to participate in a popular government-backed rural home loan program this fall, limiting mortgage options for prospective homebuyers.

Louisiana Experience Shows Top-Two Systems Make it Easier for Incumbents to be Re-Elected Than in a Normal Partisan Nomination System Although the California press is filled with stories about California's top-two election system, no newspaper story in California has discussed how the system has worked in Louisiana.

Larry Raymond, the director of Caddo Parish Parks and Recreation, poses in front of the pier at Earl G. Williamson Park in Oil City.

Our state has locked itself into a prison. If you read Louisiana Incarcerated , the eight-part series that concludes today, you know that it details what this state has done to its people: lock a shamefully high percentage of them behind bars.

Louisiana Delta Community College commemorates the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attach with a tree-planting and stone marker dedication on Friday, September 09, 2011.

For five years, the mighty Harris County Jail in Houston and the mundane LaSalle Correctional Center, 238 miles away in Louisiana, carried on a long-distance relationship built on mutual dependency.

Chinese company Wanda Group announces $2.6 billion acquisition of US cinema chain AMC to create world's largest cinema owner.