Hundreds of VIPs and international dignitaries attended a state memorial ceremony for the late prime minister who died Saturday after eight years of being in a coma following a stroke.
Former Crowley city judge Edmund Reggie is dead at 87. The one time political prodigy, and father in law to Senator Edward M. Kennedy passed away at his home in Lafayette.
This week marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of the 35th President of the United States John Fitzgerald Kennedy and now you can see the assassination film like you've never seen it before.
Disagreement arose Wednesday night between Lafayette Parish School System Dr. Pat Cooper and Lafayette Parish School Board members over expansion plans for Green T. Lindon Elementary School in Youngsville.
According to The Blaze, they did; the Democrats and Republicans, in secret emails recently leaked, worked together to get a meeting with President Obama to exclude themselves from the Affordable Care Act.
As of 12:01 a.m. EST on Tuesday, the federal government closed down. Congressional leaders in the House of Representatives and the Senate were unable to reach an agreement on a budget or a temporary fix, known as a continuing resolution, before the start of the new fiscal year on October 1.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and John Lewis, Congressman and civil right leader, were among the many who attended the funeral to share their words of praise for Boggs.
According to the Wall Street Journal, President Obama will return 5% of his salary this year to stand in "solidarity" with furloughed federal employees because of the sequester.
Chuck Hagel, whose confirmation hearing in the Senate was highly contentious, was finally confirmed today as the next secretary of defense by a vote of 58-41.