While setting your clocks forward for Daylight Saving Time, the Louisiana Highway Safety Commission reminds everyone to “spring forward for safety” by checking for critical vehicle safety recalls. Vehicle recalls are issued by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The federal agency is...

70 Years Ago March 11, 1954 Adept at biscuit making is Gloria Williams (below), daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. O. Williams of Olla. Gloria and other LaSalle Parish 4-H club members this week are celebrating national 4-H club week throughout the U.S. The young lady shown above has entered the 4-H club b...

The spring Angola Prison Rodeo will be held Saturday and Sunday, April 20-21, offering the best in prison rodeo excitement. The Angola Prison Rodeo holds performances in every Sunday in October but allows two days of the Wildest Prison Rodeo in the South each spring. Warden Tim Hooper invites the pu...

In a continuing flood of criminal justice legislation, a Louisiana House committee approved a bill that would keep secret the means and methods of exe...

It may soon be harder to sue police officers in Louisiana, with the House advancing a bill 73-31 last Thursday that would shield police officers from ...

Louisiana, which tops lists for both incarceration and crime, moved last Friday toward almost entirely eliminating parole and dramatically shrinking g...