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Louisiana Fifth District Judge Terry Doughty will take a seat on the federal bench after being confirmed by the U.S. Senate Monday.
The Senate voted 98-0 in favor of Doughty's nomination to serve as a federal judge on the U.S. Western District of Louisiana Court.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Bernard-Henri Levy believes directly showing the contribution of the Kurdish Peshmerga to a select group of congressmen through his documentary, 'Peshmerga,' will speak to the "beating heart of American democracy" and not the White House.
Richland Parish's Chamber of Commerce donated $25,000 to help build an enclosure at the Northeast Louisiana Veterans Cemetery to shield mourners from storms during funerals and ceremonies.
The donation was announced during the chamber's annual banquet in Rayville before a sellout crowd of more than 300.
Gov. John Bel Edwards and Hunt Forest Products co-owner James D. Hunt announced the company will build a state-of-the-art $115 million lumber mill in Urania, a LaSalle Parish community in the heart of Louisiana’s $11 billion forest products industry.
After the tragic events in parkland Florida, a popular sporting goods chain says it's pulling assault rifles off the shelves.
Dick's sporting goods says they're doing this because gun violence has taken the lives of too many people and they believe it's time to do something about it.
HAMMOND, La. - On Friday, February 22, Congressmen Ralph Abraham informed senior Jude Vitrano of St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic High School that he has been appointed to the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Louisiana’s two U.S. senators – Sens. John Kennedy and Bill Cassidy – have co-sponsored legislation honoring evangelist Billy Graham, who died Feb. 21 at the age of 99.
WASHINGTON — Congressman Ralph Abraham, M.D., R-Alto, announced Friday in a news release that the Vixen Water System in Caldwell Parish will receive $3.2 million in assistance from the United States Department of Agriculture for major upgrades to the system.
Allowing teachers to have guns in their classrooms?
Congressman Ralph Abraham supports it, but with the proper training.
"It's a voluntary program that if you want to go through the course of firearm safety, proficient, how to use a firearm than I'm ok with that," he said.
A Louisiana Congressman wants to get a bill passed that would help bring better roads and faster internet to rural communities.
Representative Ralph Abraham says it allows local municipalities, school boards and police jurors to get direct access to 2.1 billion dollars of the department of transportation money. The money would be given out through grants.