BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A deputy with the Louisiana State Fire Marshal's Office was arrested Friday on charges that include animal cruelty following the death of a working dog.

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — A Louisiana business owner has pleaded guilty to filing false tax returns.

Robert Poimboeuf, 57, and his wife owned and operated D&G Holdings, LLC, a Shreveport...

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — A Louisiana parish commission has approved funding to remove a Confederate monument during a special budget meeting Tuesday.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Eight regional locations for Louisiana’s Office of Motor Vehicles have reopened after a cyberattack crippled agency operations last week.

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — After more than a year without a bishop, the Diocese of Shreveport has a new leader.

News outlets report Monsignor Francis Malone will become the third bishop of the...

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — A Louisiana man who took the stand in his own defense Wednesday has been found guilty of murder in the shooting of a Shreveport police officer.

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — Police in Louisiana have charged a 19-year-old who they say shot a 2-year-old girl in the head as she sat in the back seat of a car this weekend.

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — Louisiana authorities have identified the victims of a shooting in Shreveport that left a man injured and his toddler daughter dead.

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — A federal judge has refused to set bond for a Louisiana man accused of threatening President Donald Trump via social media posts last week.

BURLINGTON, Iowa (AP) — Police have charged a Louisiana man with murder in the death of a man whose body was found in an eastern Iowa home.

Burlington police say officers on Monday charged...

BOSSIER CITY, La. (AP) — A woman who police say was waving a pair of scissors when she was shot twice by a Bossier City officer has died.

Bossier City police spokeswoman Traci Landry says...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana's top higher education board is asking lawmakers to increase spending on public college programs by nearly $156 million next year, to raise faculty pay, boost...

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — As the State Fair of Louisiana prepares to open, organizers say you can expect a "Gumbo of Fun" — this year's theme.

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — The National Park Service has awarded a city in Louisiana an additional $500,000 grant to preserve a historic landmark and transform it into a civil rights museum.

GRAMBLING, La. (AP) — Two people have been hospitalized after a shooting at Louisiana's Grambling State University.

Trooper Michael Reichardt tells KTBS-TV that a person at a party on campus...

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — A judge says a northwest Louisiana city has been overcharging residential water and sewer customers for years.

An attorney for Shreveport residents says in a news...

DURANGO, Colo. (AP) — Authorities say a woman was killed and a man was injured in an explosion and fire that destroyed a garage and damaged a home in southwest Colorado.

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — The United Daughters of the Confederacy says a monument in front of a Louisiana courthouse that's been ordered removed is considered very fragile and could cost $1 million...

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — A Louisiana police officer has pleaded guilty to kicking a subdued suspect in the face while he was in custody.

News outlets report that 33-year-old Shreveport officer...

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — A planning committee in Caddo Parish has recommended setting aside up to $500,000 to move a Confederate monument.

News outlets report the Long Range Planning/Special...

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — A state agency in Louisiana has found 27 issues in an audit of the city of Shreveport's 2018 finances.

News outlets report the document was released Monday by the...

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — A whistleblower claim brought a $530,000 settlement from a Louisiana hospital.

A news release from U.S. Attorney David Joseph on Thursday says the claim targeted...

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — Authorities say a parent and seven students have been arrested after a fight at a northwest Louisiana high school.

The Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office says 38-year-old...

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — A Louisiana mayor has appointed a permanent police chief despite the appointee being a possibly controversial choice.

News outlets report Provisional Police Chief Ben...

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — Authorities in Louisiana say more than 100 patients received care and medication from a woman who wasn't authorized to be a nurse.

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — The Shreveport Fire Department wants its firefighters to have protective vests similar to those police officers wear because they sometimes encounter violent people at...

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — Two Louisiana inmates who fled a minimum-security building are back in custody.

The Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office says 21-year-old Brenden Jackson and 20-year-old...

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — Police say two officers overheard shots fired and were responding to the scene when they crashed their cruisers into each other.

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — A grocery store bagger in Louisiana has been hailed a hero for stopping a man who tried to steal a woman's purse.

News outlets report 26-year-old Juwone Scott was...

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — A Louisiana police department has finally welcomed a black woman onto its Mounted Patrol.

The Shreveport Times reported Thursday that Shreveport police Officer Catari...

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — A man killed in a collision involving a tractor-trailer and a train in Louisiana has been identified.

News outlets report the Caddo Parish Coroner's Office says...

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — A Louisiana teacher and football coach has been jailed on a child pornography charge.

An arrest warrant states 33-year-old James Allen Opie of Shreveport was arrested...

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — A council member in Louisiana has pleaded not guilty to driving while intoxicated and texting while driving.

News outlets report 41-year-old LeVette Fuller entered the...

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — A Louisiana man's lawsuit says two banks helped an investor defraud him out of $9.4 million in a Ponzi scheme.

KTBS-TV reports Shreveport businessman Byrum Teekell is...

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — Three City of Shreveport employees are facing charges.

Caddo Parish Sheriff Steve Prator said Friday that the Department of Water and Sewerage workers each are accused...

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — An unused minor league baseball stadium that's falling into disrepair in Louisiana could be demolished and turned into a parking lot under a bond proposal.

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — A Louisiana police officer has been arrested on a charge of malfeasance in office.

A Shreveport Police Department news release says Dylan Hudson turned himself in on...

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — A Louisiana judge has disqualified state Rep. Barbara Norton from seeking election to the state Senate.

News outlets report District Judge Craig Marcotte ruled Friday...

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — A man charged in the shooting death of a Louisiana police officer has pleaded guilty to unrelated federal firearms and drug charges.

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — A Shreveport woman is suspected of injuring her toddler in an attempt to profit off a bus crash.

Authorities say 38-year-old Diedra Michelle Lee is free on bond after...

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — A Louisiana school board member has pleaded guilty in a steroid conspiracy.

The U.S. Attorney's Office in Shreveport says Bossier (BOH-zher) Parish School Board member...

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — A Louisiana man accused of emailing a death threat to a sheriff's office has been arrested.

News outlets report Caddo Parish investigators found 12 unsecured guns...

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — An infant is dead after being shot in a drive-by shooting in north Louisiana.

News outlets report multiple police units responded just after 4:15 a.m. Saturday to a...

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — A north Louisiana coroner's office is investigating after a skull was found in Shreveport's Stoner Hill neighborhood.

The Caddo Parish Coroner's office says the human...

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — The trial against a man accused of scamming investors and banks out of $96 million has been delayed so the defendant can undergo mental evaluation.

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — A teenager from Arkansas has died after he was found face-down in a swimming pool at a Louisiana water park.

The Caddo Parish Coroner's office says in a news release...

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — A former school official in Louisiana pleaded guilty Thursday to criminal charges involving mail-order prescription drugs.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana's Office of Tourism has scheduled five more meetings around the state to help identify locations for a civil rights trail to share Louisiana's role in the...