With strong opposition from Gov. Bobby Jindal's legal adviser, legislation that Rep. Wayne Waddell said would allow the public more access to the governor's records died in committee.
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Waddell said House Bill 169 would "open up the windows and let the sunshine in" on the governor's records.

But at the urging of Executive Counsel Jimmy Faircloth, the windows stayed shut.

With the economy in tatters, some of the lowest presidential approval ratings in American history, and a Republican party left crippled after his eight years as president, George W. Bush's final days in office are winding down with little fanfare.

For much of the country, his time power can't end soon enough. A New York tabloid cover last week sent him off with the headline: "Good-bye ... and good riddance."

But northeastern Louisiana has had an exceptional reaction to the Bush years: it's one of the few regions in which Bush retains strong support. In fact, the region has actually grown more conservative during that time.

COVINGTON, La. (AP) - A woman was murdered in rural southeast Louisiana in connection with a Ku Klux Klan initiation ritual, the sheriff of a New Orleans suburb says. Eight arrests were reported.

The woman, whose identity has not been released, was recruited via the Internet to come to Louisiana from Oklahoma for a KKK initiation, according to a news release Tuesday from St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Jack Strain.

Strain said the woman arrived in Slidell, La., last week and was taken to a remote campsite, but she was shot Sunday after a fight broke out when she asked to be taken back to town.

One of the suspects, identified as 44-year-old Raymond "Chuck" Foster, no address available, was booked with second-degree murder.

Seven other suspects are under arrest, including Shane Foster, Raymond Foster's son, WWL-TV reports.

Five others were booked with obstruction of justice and charges were pending against two others.

well, that shocks us here in david dukeville!

but the faces we saw in early voting did look a bit sad and remorseful...

louisiana blue!

A federal jury Tuesday convicted a woman of conspiring with a former Louisiana lawmaker to conceal her illegal operation of an insurance business by laundering money.

Prosecutors contend Gwendolyn Moyo sold bogus construction bonds and laundered roughly $2 million to hide her operation. Moyo argued she was acting as an insurance consultant and did not need a license. She accused the government of pressuring business associates to testify against her.