LAKE ARTHUR, La. (AP) — Hurricane Laura pounded the Gulf Coast for hours with ferocious wind, torrential rains and rising seawater as it roared ashore over southwestern Louisiana near the Texas border early today, threatening…

GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — Hurricane Laura is forecast to rapidly power up into a “catastrophic” Category 4 hurricane, even stronger than previously expected, as it churns toward Texas and Louisiana, swirling wind and water over…

WASHINGTON —Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. joined the Supreme Court’s liberal justices to deal a surprising setback to abortion opponents on Monday, striking down a restrictive Louisiana abortion law and reaffirming the court’s past…

WALKER, La. (AP) — Police are searching for an “aggressive chicken” accused of engaging in fowl play at a Louisiana bank. The Walker Police Department responded to a complaint about the brazen animal Friday, the…

MADILL, Okla. (AP) — Severe weather was moving through the South today after at least six people died in Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana, including a factory worker whose body was found a quarter-mile away after…

GALLIANO, La. (AP) — Louisiana authorities are perplexed over why a man left apparent designer bags holding drugs, a gun, cash and a digital scale in a convenience store. The man went into the store…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Building toward hurricane strength, Tropical Storm Barry began hitting Louisiana with wind and rain Friday as it closed in for what could be a long, slow — and epic — drenching…

OPELOUSAS, La. (AP) — Each church catered to an African American congregation. Each graced a rustic, country setting. Each fronted a small cemetery. And each is now a charred disaster scene, the result of three…

Once again, the courts have rebutted Kansas’s attempt to defund Planned Parenthood. On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear arguments by Kansas and Louisiana requesting they be able to deny Medicaid funding for…