This is the introduction for the Inside Report columnist section.
A military man with a passion for LSU sports, Gen. Ron Richard knows he isn’t always the most popular man throughout the campus.
Tulane University Medical Center Dr. Corey Hebert said during a recent forum on the state of mental and public health in Louisiana that there is a “perceived wellness’’ among victims of hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Anthony Bell put state District Judge Todd Hernandez in a seemingly no-win situation before Bell’s capital murder trial even began. The day in February when Hernandez granted Bell’s request to fire his court-appointed attorneys and represent himself in his trial was the day Hernandez might have doomed the trial outcome.
The Lafayette Parish school system is swimming into waters that dropped off more quickly and deeply than anyone foresaw the last time it was tried — overhauling bus routes in its transportation system.
With an approved revised action plan for reducing the size of the annual summer “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana scientists, state agencies and others have started to meet on how to take action.
Some local Republican leaders would love to replace Mayor-President Kip Holden with one of their own this fall. But they are having difficulty finding a candidate to challenge Holden, a black Democrat whose administration has had a distinctively Republican flavor.
A House committee’s rejection of a bill to toughen passing grades for high school athletes and others was amazing on several levels.
One approach isn’t enough to lower the traffic fatality rate in Louisiana that ranks among the nation’s worst. But some hope three might work. Engineering. Enforcement. Education.
The fledgling Central Community School system is pondering how to absorb more than 2,000 new students in the next four years. The first step, school officials have decided, is to open a new school.
The 6th Congressional District of Louisiana became a bastion of the Republican Party by the slimmest of margins 30 years ago, but the GOP has held on to the seat since.
Completing college applications, paying for the ACT exam and filling out lengthy student financial aid forms might be daunting for students attempting those tasks for the first time.
The West Feliciana Parish Courthouse Annex is a beautiful building that architecturally complements the adjacent courthouse that has been around since 1903.
In a world where you can log onto the Internet to review anything from restaurants to professors, a new Web site allows people to rate their interactions with law enforcement.
