BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Former Louisiana lawmaker Steve Carter, a Baton Rouge Republican who championed school choice issues during his three terms in the state House and spoke strongly in favor of following health guidelines to stop the spread of the coronavirus, died of complications from COVID-19. He...
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A judge has refused to toss out six criminal complaints filed against a Louisiana pastor charged with violating coronavirus gathering capacity rules put in place during the early days of the pandemic. Nineteenth Judicial District Judge Eboni Johnson-Rose on Monday dismissed pastor...
BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — Virginia Tech has indefinitely suspended starting guard Tyrece Radford from all men’s basketball team activities. In a release Monday school school officials said Radford failed to uphold “the high standards Virginia Tech has for its students and athletes.” The...
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — An Alexandria lawmaker who once led the state House Republican delegation announced Monday that he's running to be chairman of the Louisiana GOP, challenging the current party leader. Rep. Lance Harris said he'll seek to unseat state Republican Party Chairman Louis Gurvich, a New...
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The father of the Baton Rouge native who designed Kamala Harris’ dress for Wednesday’s inauguration said watching the vice president take the oath of office in a purple dress his son designed is one of the proudest moments of his life. Christopher John Rogers II, who...
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Seven people have been charged in an attack last year on a restaurant hostess trying to enforce COVID-19 dining rules. The teenage hostess was punched multiple times in the face and hit with a “wet floor” sign during the Aug. 9 confrontation at a Chili's restaurant in...
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — More than two dozen candidates vying to be Louisiana's newest U.S. House members registered by Friday's deadline to run in the March 20 special election to fill the two vacant congressional seats. Thirteen contenders filed paperwork to appear on the ballot for the 5th District seat...
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The sign-up period for the March 20 election ended Friday. The ballot includes two special elections for U.S. House seats and a special election for a state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education seat. The candidates who qualified are: U.S. HOUSE, 2nd DISTRICT: Chelsea Ardoin,...
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Donna Britt, who capped a nearly four-decade Louisiana broadcast journalism career with periodic on-air chronicles of her battle against a debilitating neurological disease, died Thursday in Baton Rouge. She was 62. WAFB-TV, where Britt rose from fledgling reporter to longtime,...
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Candidate registration opened Wednesday for Louisiana's March 20 election to fill two vacant U.S. House seats, one representing a majority-minority district centered in New Orleans and the other a rural district covering the state's northeast and central parishes. The special...