Louisiana

SHREVEPORT, La. — A local high school teacher will showcase his trivia knowledge on national television Thursday afternoon. Andrew Medlin, an English and philosophy teacher at Caddo Parish Magnet High School, is set to compete on a new episode of "Jeopardy!" The broadcast airs locally at 4:30 p.m. on KTBS 3.

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The Plaquemines Parish Coroner’s Office said Thursday (Oct. 29) that two brothers died at a fishing plant in September from suffocating on hydrogen sulfide gas released by decomposing fish. The coroner said one brother died trying to save the other Sept. 4 and that their...

New Orleans officials have set an end-of-year deadline for developers to close a financing deal for the former Six Flags site in New Orleans East, five years after former Mayor LaToya Cantrell selected Bayou Phoenix to build a youth sports complex surrounded by hotels, a water park and film studio.

A New Orleans meteorologist is tracking a powerful cold front headed to South Louisiana, with temperatures potentially taking a serious dip.

Several nonprofits operating out of offices on the LSU New Orleans campus were told last month to clear out by October 31 so the university's athletics department could move its coaches into the space, according to the groups' directors. Project NOLA, Court Watch NOLA, Soul NOLA and Silence Is Violence all received notices to vacate the Training, Resource, and Assistive-Technology Center, a Lakefront campus facility historically used for disability and rehabilitation services.

Saints and Pelicans owner Gayle Benson's property management group has pitched a city panel on moving New Orleans' dilapidated City Hall and Civil District Court into a downtown office building Benson owns, an offer city officials appear to be taking seriously. GMB Vision, a company that represents Benson, suggested that...

ZACHARY - Spooky season brings out the creative side in many people. But one man puts a twist on getting creative with Jack-O-Lanterns. Robert Barr has a full display of more than 100 pumpkins that he carved by hand. "The process relaxes me, and it takes about six to eight...

A Baton Rouge Police Officer physically assaulted his wife, striking her several times and preventing her from leaving or contacting police, a warrant said. Sirtelli Dorsey, 37, was arrested Thursday morning for aggravated battery, domestic abuse battery, false imprisonment and home invasion. He was booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison.

HAMMOND - A man who reportedly robbed a gas station and was caught by a Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Office K-9 was found choking the dog before he was arrested, officials said. TPSO said Latrail James, 20, went into a convenience store along Airport Road on Tuesday morning. He reportedly wore...

Leigh Ann Sharp, a coastal wetlands expert with the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, has spent over 20 years implementing restoration projects across Southwest Louisiana. From her Lafayette office, […]