Jackson Louisiana Travel Guide

President Barack Obama addresses the nation from New Orleans on this 5th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

A 52-year-old woman was issued a citation Wednesday after a 2-year-old girl fell out of the van that the woman was driving and used to transport people to area medical facilities, a police spokesman said.

According to one Louisiana school system, a high school student was recently being disruptive and was eventually tased by an officer at the school.

A 46-year-old man accused of forcing a woman into his car at gunpoint 14 years ago and raping her in a Baton Rouge Avenue field is under indictment.

A state district judge threw out indictments today against three men accused in the July 2009 shooting death of a Clinton man during an alleged drug deal.

Inmates who are mentally incapable of standing trial must now be moved out of local jails and into a state-run facility, according to a federal judge's ruling on Friday.

A Solitude Road bar where two people were killed in separate shootings less than nine months apart is closed and may not reopen, West Feliciana Parish Sheriff J. Austin Daniel said Monday.

ST. FRANCISVILLE _ One man was killed and another seriously wounded in a shootout early today in the parking lot of a Solitude bar, West Feliciana Parish Sheriff J. Austin Daniel said.

It will happen eventually. Parts of downtown Alexandria will become Chicago, while other parts will become downtown Dallas during the early 1930s.