Louisiana

Lacey Louis was taken into custody after an incident at Westlake Middle School in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Democrat incumbent John Bel Edwards defeated his Republican challenger despite three Trump rallies in the Bayou State.

Where the "Trump bump" panned out for Tate Reeves in Mississippi, it ultimately flopped for Eddie Rispone, just as it did for Gov. Matt Bevin in Kentucky. Both candidates were the scourge of local teachers unions.

While the president promised to defend Louisiana citizens' right to bear arms during his Thursday rally, the president made no mention of the Thursday school shooting which killed two.

He cried "one time while making a speech," Trump said.

Trump is stumping for Republican businessman Eddie Rispone, who seeks to unseat Louisiana's Democratic governor. 

Addressing supporters at a "Keep America Great" event in Monroe, Louisiana last night, the former real estate mogul said he had a "nicer everything" than the elite.

"You can't understand America if you don't understand slavery," said artist Dread Scott, who has organized the reenactment.

U.S. attorneys claim that five people committed fraud in connection by staging an accident with a commercial truck, according to an Thursday indictment. They were allegedly assisted in the scheme by an unnamed attorney.

A Louisiana SWAT commander and his schoolteacher wife were arrested this week on charges of possessing a surplus of self-produced child pornography.

Jamar Davis, 30, is facing child desertion charges after a customer found his son wandering in a Walmart parking lot while Davis worked inside.

Meshell Hale, 51, of Baton Rouge, is accused of poisoning Damian Skipper in 2015 and murdering Arthur Noflin Jr. in 2016.

The research was carried out after a spike in anti-abortion legislation, and a drop in patients accessing the procedure, the authors explained.

The season's next tropical storm is expected to form in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday and could hit Florida this weekend.

Robert Brunson Blair, 71, has been arrested in the 1989 disappearances of Isabelle Mansell Blair—his wife—and 31-year-old Marian Elizabeth Coutee, both of whom were last seen near Blair's Louisiana home.

The president tackled multiple subjects while stumping for two Republican candidates for House and Senate.

"I will be in Louisiana tonight (Love it!) to get Republicans to vote for either of our two great Republican Candidates," Trump tweeted early Friday.

The 23-year-old man had to be medevaced from the cruise ship Carnival Valor in the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. Coast Guard said.

Abortion clinics are already extremely face—requiring them to have hospital admitting privileges will only make it worse for women.

David Mohr of The Roleaux Foundation donated the funds after his own pup was killed in a botched car robbery earlier this year.

"As a dog owner myself, I was completely appalled when we received a complaint of such horrific animal cruelty in our community," said St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office chief Randy Smith.

"When you antagonize enough, they are going to strike back," said Pamela Bossier, the manager of the Tiger Truck Stop in Grosse Tete, where the incident occurred.

If preliminary rainfall totals are accurate, Imelda would be the 7th wettest tropical cyclone in United States history.

The woman's dire state was only discovered thanks to a visiting relative deciding to check on her injuries.

"BRPD is not the only Louisiana law enforcement agency we have sent public records requests to, nor the only one where we have found officers using slurs," attorney William Most revealed to Newsweek.

The right-wing candidate and cousin of progressive Democrat Mitch Landrieu used the slur about bullying.

After a visitor to a Louisiana plantation complained, "We didn't come to hear a lecture on how the white people treated slaves," food historian Michael W. Twitty decided to respond.

The area known as River Ridge did not even have a Little League until six years ago. After losing their first game in Williamsport, they went through and pulled off a remarkable feat.

A public defender who was in the court at the time is also facing contempt charges for filming the encounter.

Eddie Rispone is a successful businessman and political outsider running for governor in Louisiana. A supporter of the president, he's been called "Louisiana's Donald Trump."