President Biden’s reelection campaign is blaming former President Trump for a bill proposed in Louisiana that would criminalize possession of the abortion pills mifepristone and misoprostol. In a statement first shared with The Hill from…
Cook Political Report: “Just when Democrats thought they could count on picking up new Black majority seats in Alabama and Louisiana, a three-judge federal panel threw a wrench in that
Louisiana is once again without a valid congressional map following a new federal court ruling issued Tuesday evening, and it's not yet clear how the matter might get resolved. But proposals put forward earlier in the complex litigation…
Louisiana high school teacher Alexa Wingerter, 35, allegedly had sexual relations with "at least one" of her 18-year-old male students, and bought booze for others.
A newly drawn congressional map in Louisiana has been struck down by a panel of federal judges who found that the new boundaries, which form a second majority Black district in the state, amounted to an “impermissible racial gerrymander”…
SLIDELL, La. – A school teacher in Louisiana has been taken into custody after she reportedly sent naked photographs to students while also supplying them with alcohol, and having sex with “at least one” of them, according to law…
Xavier University of Louisiana and Ochsner Health System are partnering to create the nation’s fifth HBCU medical school. The newly-minted Xavier Ochsner College of Medicine will reportedly “mitigate disparities that kill Black people with…
In a story published April 30, 2024, about a panel of federal judges rejecting a new congressional map for Louisiana, The Associated Press erroneously reported that a separate remap case before U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick in Baton…
A new congressional map in Louisiana creating a second majority-Black House district was rejected by a panel of federal judges, causing uncertainty for fall elections. The ruling blocked a map from 2022, which maintained one Black-majority…
A panel of federal judges rejected a newly drawn congressional map Tuesday that would have created a second majority-Black district in Louisiana. The move tees up a potential redistricting battle in the nation's high court. In a 2-1 ruling…