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Latest Louisiana News more» 
  • GOP face dwindling House seats
    Republican strategists faced with dwindling seats in the U.S. House of Representatives launched a $2 million territorial fight in the south, officials said. Republican candidates in Mississippi and Louisiana face scandal and disgruntled voters in what is
  • Alon USA to buy Valero's Louisiana refinery
    Alon USA Energy Inc. has agreed to buy Valero Energy Corp.'s refinery in Krotz Springs, La., for $333 million.The deal includes an earn-out provision currently valued at more than $100 million, plus other working capital at the refinery, which will be
  • Obama wins in North Carolina, but trails Clinton in Indiana (AP)

    Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., greets supporters in Raleigh, N.C.,Tuesday, May 6, 2008. Voters in both North Carolina and Indiana are crowding polling places Tuesday for the states' primary elections, the largest remaining contests in the Democratic presidential nomination struggle between Obama and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.(AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)AP - Barack Obama swept to victory in the North Carolina primary on Tuesday but fell behind Hillary Rodham Clinton in Indiana, the last big-delegate prizes left in their long race for the Democratic presidential nomination. Obama's win mirrored earlier triumphs in Southern states with large black populations, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana and South Carolina among them.



  • Cazayoux sworn in (AP)

    6th U.S. Congressional District candidate state Rep. Don Cazayoux, D-New Roads, calls supporters in this April 30, 2008 file photo. Cazayoux won a special congressional election Saturday, bolstering his party's majority status on Capitol Hill by taking a seat Republicans have held since 1974. (AP Photo/Tim Mueller, file)AP - Don Cazayoux became Louisiana's newest Democratic congressman on Tuesday as Democrats celebrated their capture of a longtime Republican seat in the South.



  • US prison finds something new to deter escapes: a bear
    MARY FOSTER NEW ORLEANS - The way the warden sees it, the more than 180kg black bear living in the middle of the sprawling Louisiana State Penitentiary is an extra layer of security.'I love that bear being right where it is,' Warden Burl Cain said
  • House losses stoke GOP tensions (Politico)
    Politico - House Republicans who hoped to be on a slow climb back to the majority by now are reeling from Democratic victories in special elections in Illinois and Louisiana, and sources say another loss in Mississippi next week would roil an already poisoned relationship between House Minority Leader John A. Boehner and National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Tom Cole.
  • MKJ XPLORATION TO EXPLORE OFF NICARAGUA
    MKJ Xploration to explore off Nicaragua May-05-2008 Eric Watkins Senior Correspondent LOS ANGELES, May 5 -- Nicaragua has signed a 6-year contract with Louisiana-based MKJ Xploration for exploration and development of offshore crude oil and natural gas
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Louisiana became the United States eighteenth state on April 30, 1812. The capital is Baton Rouge. Louisiana is named after King Louis XIV and is the only state in the Union that has parishes instead of counties. Because of slow communication, the famous Battle of New Orleans was actually fought two weeks after the War of 1812 ended. Louisiana is one of the most racially and culturally diverse states, with French, Spanish, Cuban, and African influences. The Pelican State ranks 33rd among the 50 states in land size with a total land area of 43,566 square miles.

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