Louisiana lawmakers want crackdown on massage parlors engaged in sex trafficking

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - A Senate-passed bill targeting massage parlors that allegedly engage in human sexual trafficking advanced to the Louisiana House floor Tuesday (May 27). Sen. Beth Mizell (R-Franklinton) authored SB 221, which got a hearing before the …

Carthage’s Cuff drives in 3 runs in Louisiana loss

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (KLTV) - Former Carthage Bulldog Connor Cuff had two hits and drove in three runs in Louisiana’s 17-13 loss to Marshall in the Sun Belt Conference tournament on Friday. The sophomore got the start at third base and batted eighth. Cuff was …

OMV Warns Residents of Scam Texts Targeting Louisiana Drivers

Louisiana drivers are being warned not to fall for a phishing scam posing as an urgent message from the Office of Motor Vehicles.The scam arrives as a text message, often claiming that the recipient has to pay an outstanding traffic ticket or that their …

How a Houston lead helped track down escaped Louisiana inmates in Walker County

According to the Louisiana State Police, Leo Tate and Jermaine Donald were arrested in Walker County. HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A fugitive takedown has sent two men to jail. A near two-week search for Leo Tate and Jermaine Donald is now over in dramatic fashion, …

Hold down car insurance rates, or drive them even higher? Louisiana House OKs controversial bill

Over the strong objections of Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple and the insurance industry, the House deferred to Gov. Jeff Landry and gave final passage to a bill Tuesday that he says will make it harder for insurance companies to raise rates. Temple …

Louisiana Grind Cake with Brownish Butter Luster

Fresh from the Kitchen Area: Recipes & Food Concepts This Louisiana Grind Cake meal is a wet, buttery additional pound cake studded with toasted pecans, coconut flakes, and covered with a brownish butter polish that takes it over the leading! It’s …

Recent escapes in Louisiana, Arkansas spark concern over prison security

Timeline of nuclear plant shutdown raises questions about Louisiana blackout

Elected officials homed in Tuesday on the timeline of events that led to an abrupt order of forced blackouts on Sunday in Louisiana, prompting Entergy and Cleco to cut the lights to 100,000 residents in the New Orleans area amid hot, late-spring …

This Louisiana Lakeside House Is Built for Entertaining—but Purposefully Only Has One Bedroom

“We all house contradictions. No one of us is anymore who we were ten or twenty years ago,” wrote architect Bobby McAlpine in “The Art of Reinvention,” an essay that appeared in recently in VERANDA. “The curative, if not spiritual, act of keeping up with …

This Louisiana Spot is a Road Trip Essential: Here's Why

If you escape Shreveport often, you've probably dropped into a Billy’s Boudin and Cracklins, who hasn't? It is a Louisiana road trip staple. If so many Americans travel through Shreveport on I-20, why don't we have an epic gas station? We can …