This story was published in The Times-Picayune on Oct. 6, 2007. Gorbachev died Tuesday at 91.
Mikhail Gorbachev, who as the last leader of the Soviet Union waged a losing battle to salvage a crumbling empire but produced extraordinary reforms that led to the end of the Cold War, has died
Louisiana will get nearly $100 million in federal transportation aid that went unused by other states, officials said Tuesday.
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While major disruptions are scheduled for Interstate 10 just as a new administration enters office in 2024, Louisiana's highways chief said plans to trim I-10 by one lane in each direction should be limited to about one year as outgoing leaders ha…
Louisiana’s insular medical marijuana industry — which is seeing a flood of new customers and a spike in sales this year after smokable flower became legal — is set to expand further.
Once envisioned as a citywide network of vibrant charter schools that would set the standard for public education in the capital city, the state-run Recovery School District-Baton Rouge is slowly withering, with two of the largest schools it still…
Like other Republicans, U.S. Sen. John Kennedy has been hammering President Joe Biden for the rise of inflation, especially high gas prices.
ISLE DE JEAN CHARLES - When she was a girl, Theresa “Betty” Billiot would open the back door to a view of cattle grazing in pastures, cotton fields and wild prairie dotted with duck ponds. Now she opens the same door and sees nothing but the rising sea.
U.S. Sen. John Kennedy sharply criticized President Joe Biden’s program announced Wednesday to forgive up to $20,000 in student loan debt per borrower.
Louisiana’s favorite parlor game – Who’s Running for Governor? – always includes the name of U.S. Rep. Garret Graves, R-Baton Rouge, along with fellow Republicans Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser, Attorney General Jeff Landry, and state Treasurer John Schroder.
About three weeks ago, it was finally Kimbra Williams-Webber’s turn.
WASHINGTON — Fourteen of the 15 boxes recovered from former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate early this year contained classified documents, many of them top secret, mixed in with miscellaneous newspapers, magazines and personal corresponde…
The state is preparing to launch a scaled-down version of a program to aid students with reading problems that is named after the late Steve Carter, who championed literacy for years when he served in the Legislature.
A last-minute challenge has stalled broadband installation in a poor northeast Louisiana parish that Gov. John Bel Edwards used on July 25 as a backdrop to ballyhoo the rollout of 67 grants to extend high-speed internet into underserved rural parishes.
U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy began remarks about the infrastructure bill passed last year by Congress by noting that his Republican colleagues in Louisiana’s congressional delegation all voted against it.
Amazon sells, for $17.95, T-shirts that say, “Joe Biden Sucks.” There’s a “Let’s Go Brandon” T-shirt listing the president’s major successes as a border crisis and inflation. Both come in a variety of colors.
Herschel Walker, who won the 1982 Heisman Trophy as a running back for the University of Georgia, was in New Orleans Monday night to raise money for his hotly-contested U.S. Senate campaign.
Shreveport Mayor Adrian Perkins is back on the ballot after the Louisiana Supreme Court narrowly ruled Friday that a paperwork mistake does not disqualify him from running for re-election this fall.
The Louisiana Supreme Court on Friday said a businessman kicked off this fall's Tangipahoa Parish ballot because the home address he listed on his qualifying papers didn't match that of a homestead exemption in his name should still have a chance …
It was unusually cool in the Capitol High gym Wednesday night thanks to the recent addition of air-conditioning but the passions still ran warm as an audience of more than 100 people, most of them graduates, shared what they want to see in the fut…
As he turned the dirt on what will be the first monument to Black veterans on State Capitol grounds, Gov. John Bel Edwards remarked Wednesday that he had reached his 50s before learning of the significance and valor of Black troops at the Civil Wa…
Shreveport Mayor Adrian Perkins’ right to run for reelection this fall hangs in the balance after the Louisiana Supreme Court held a hearing Tuesday on whether a paperwork mistake ought to disqualify him.
The Louisiana Democratic Party capped an afternoon of confusion Saturday by voting to endorse three main challengers to U.S. Sen. John Kennedy.
U.S. Sen. John Kennedy on Friday continued to question the FBI’s search of former President Donald Trump’s home, even after newspapers reported Thursday night that agents seized highly classified documents relating to nuclear weapons.
The Louisiana Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by abortion providers to block the state’s strict abortion law for the third time, delivering another blow to advocates for abortion rights as part of a roller-coaster legal battle since Roe v. Wa…
State appellate court judges indicated Wednesday that they are unlikely to upend an upcoming East Baton Rouge school board election while a legal challenge over voting maps plays out.
U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy may have voted to convict Donald Trump on an article of impeachment charging the president with “incitement of insurrection,” but he joined fellow Republicans Tuesday demanding to know why the FBI searched the former preside…
When Vince Wozniak went noodling for the first time, the rush of adrenaline had him hooked.
After 39 years of the state saying no, a legislative committee agreed Tuesday to pay $101.5 million to Tangipahoa Parish victims of flooding caused by the building of Interstate 12.
A Hammond man’s hopes of becoming the city’s next mayor were dashed Tuesday morning after an appeals court affirmed his disqualification for living at an address different from his voter registration.
Days after a Baton Rouge mother was arrested in a case involving her toddler overdosing on fentanyl and dying, the Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services announced Monday that its caseworkers will immediately visit young children who…
Ronald Marshall recalls being drained of energy every morning after picking vegetables in the unshaded fields of Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. But the dorm where he lived with about 80 others was hotter than outside.
A Hammond man seeking to be the city’s next mayor is fighting to reverse his disqualification in the race after the address on his voter registration failed to match his home address.
U.S. Sen. John N. Kennedy traveled to Iowa Friday to headline a re-election campaign fund-raiser for Gov. Kim Reynolds.
Anthony Claude “Buddy” Leach Jr., a plumber’s son who amassed a fortune in land, cattle and oil and gas holdings while winning and losing big races at the highest levels of state politics during the Louisiana Democratic Party’s heyday, died Saturd…
The fate of this fall’s congressional elections was pretty much set when the U.S. Supreme Court told U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick to stand down, Louisiana would use the Legislature’s status quo maps.
While continuing to call himself pro-life, Democratic Senate candidate Luke Mixon is now calling on Congress to legalize abortions in all 50 states.
U.S. Sen. John N. Kennedy has begun airing re-election ads online that play to his reputation among conservatives as a guy who provides plain talk to the Washington swamp.
Louisiana's two U.S. senators say the state's energy interests will suffer from the Inflation Reduction Act, a massive measure Democrats are angling to vote on in the next few days before adjourning for the summer.
State appellate court judges indicated Wednesday that they are unlikely to upend an upcoming East Baton Rouge school board election while a legal challenge over voting maps plays out.
U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy may have voted to convict Donald Trump on an article of impeachment charging the president with “incitement of insurrection,” but he joined fellow Republicans Tuesday demanding to know why the FBI searched the former preside…
When Vince Wozniak went noodling for the first time, the rush of adrenaline had him hooked.
After 39 years of the state saying no, a legislative committee agreed Tuesday to pay $101.5 million to Tangipahoa Parish victims of flooding caused by the building of Interstate 12.
A Hammond man’s hopes of becoming the city’s next mayor were dashed Tuesday morning after an appeals court affirmed his disqualification for living at an address different from his voter registration.
Days after a Baton Rouge mother was arrested in a case involving her toddler overdosing on fentanyl and dying, the Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services announced Monday that its caseworkers will immediately visit young children who…
Ronald Marshall recalls being drained of energy every morning after picking vegetables in the unshaded fields of Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. But the dorm where he lived with about 80 others was hotter than outside.
WASHINGTON — Democrats pushed their election-year economic package to Senate passage Sunday, a hard-fought compromise less ambitious than President Joe Biden's original domestic vision but one that still meets deep-rooted party goals of slowing gl…
A Hammond man seeking to be the city’s next mayor is fighting to reverse his disqualification in the race after the address on his voter registration failed to match his home address.
U.S. Sen. John N. Kennedy traveled to Iowa Friday to headline a re-election campaign fund-raiser for Gov. Kim Reynolds.
Anthony Claude “Buddy” Leach Jr., a plumber’s son who amassed a fortune in land, cattle and oil and gas holdings while winning and losing big races at the highest levels of state politics during the Louisiana Democratic Party’s heyday, died Saturd…
The fate of this fall’s congressional elections was pretty much set when the U.S. Supreme Court told U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick to stand down, Louisiana would use the Legislature’s status quo maps.