Louisiana

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Some residents of Louisiana's capital city have begun struggling to return to flood-damaged homes on foot, in cars and by boat as waters recede in some areas.

WALKER, La. (AP) — Thousands of people are living in shelters after rising waters forced them to flee their homes in southern Louisiana.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The last of the three Louisiana law enforcement officers killed in an ambush near a busy highway in Baton Rouge will soon be buried.

MARKSVILLE, La. (AP) — The head of Louisiana's state police force says investigators have spent 12 hours examining forensics following a shooting by city marshals that left a 6-year-old boy dead and his father critically wounded.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is headed back to Iowa to meet with local pastors and again look for support among Christian evangelicals for a possible White House campaign.

HAHNVILLE, La. (AP) — With enthusiasm and vigor that belie his 87 years, Louisiana's four-term former Gov. Edwin Edwards, is running for Congress in south Louisiana in what would be his second political resurrection.

HOPEDALE, La. (AP) — Oyster harvests along the Gulf Coast have declined dramatically in the four years since the BP oil spill.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — One of the ten victims of a weekend shooting on New Orleans' Bourbon Street has died.

HOUMA, La. (AP) — A south Louisiana fire inspector says the blaze that killed three children from Alabama started in the living room of the mobile home where they were staying.

Police say a man was shot in both of his legs after the suspects taunted him for being an Alabama fan at a gas station early Sunday morning following the Alabama-LSU game. AL.com reports that there was a physical altercation at the Shell station on the corner of Skyland Boulevard and Greensboro Avenue in Tuscaloosa hours after the 38-17 Alabama victory...