Gov. Edwards added that the Middle District of Louisiana U.S. Attorney's office and the FBI will also assist in the investigation.

Aman convicted of murdering two women and on death row for one of the murders has died. Derrick Todd Lee fell ill over the weekend and died at a Louisiana hospital Thursday morning for yet unknown reasons. Lee, 47, was currently serving a life sentence for one murder and a death row sentence for the […]

A penny connoisseur from Ruston, La. gave up his very special collection for the sake of his health, USA Today reports.

A 2014 Equal Employment Opportunity report shows that Black woman make up zero percent of Twitter’s employees. Only 14 Black women are currently employed at…

Prosecutors in Louisiana are excluding potential Black jurors three times as often as jurors of another race by using peremptory challenges

In the town of Clinton, La., a white 54-year-old man was arrested and charged with a hate crime and an additional misdemeanor charge after he…

A 28-year-old man went swimming in a Southwest Texas marina, at which point he was attacked and killed by an alligator. According to Fox News: Police…

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Advisers confirmed on Monday that while serving as an elected official in 2002, Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.), the House majority whip, spoke at an event…

Today ABC’s host of Good Morning America, Robin Roberts, turns 52. Roberts is a Mississippi native who attended, Southeastern Louisiana University where she played basketball and graduated cum laude with a degree in communications. Roberts worked for EPSN before joining ABC as  a sportscaster. A Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame  inductee, Roberts, is a breast cancer survior […]

The Opelousas Massacre in St. Landry Parish, La., has baffled historians over the years. From varying accounts, hundreds of Blacks were reportedly killed, because of…