This became a pattern repeated in New Orleans and other places.

A flood watch remains in effect until Saturday across most of south Louisiana.

For example, Louisiana s governor is of Indian origin, and has been mentioned as a possible running mate for John McCain.

President Jefferson sent Monroe to France to assist Robert R. Livingston in negotiating the Louisiana Purchase.

He was 78 years old. He spent 37 years in a Louisiana State Penitentiary for a crime he didn't commit.

Neither the subject nor the photographer was named, only the date and the place 1863, a Louisiana cotton plantation.

In arguing against the ruling, Louisiana officials said they would not punish doctors performing abortions while their applications for admitting privileges were pending.

This process has, over the past 5,000 years, caused the coastline of south Louisiana to advance toward the Gulf from .

The eastern boundary of the Louisiana purchase was the Mississippi River, from its source to the 31st parallel, though the source of the Mississippi was, at the time, unknown.

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said state officials are in constant contact with local officials, and assistance is already on the move to affected parishes.

Police in Baton Rouge, La., announced Saturday that a suspect has been arrested in the shooting death of LSU basketball player Wayde Sims on Friday.

Numerous rivers in southeast Louisiana and southern Mississippi were overflowing their banks and threatening widespread flooding after extreme rainfall, the National Weather Service reported.

We have also been able to watch on our televisions this month what appears to be the final stages in the battle to cap the huge oil spill off the coast of Florida and Louisiana.

The Louisiana Territory was vast, stretching from the Gulf of Mexico in the south to Rupert's Land in the north, and from the Mississippi River in the east to the Rocky Mountains in the west.

Census figures show that Maine has the highest percentage of people speaking French at home of any state 5.28 of Maine households are French speaking, compared with 4.68 in Louisiana.

The Army Corps of Engineers budget for levee construction in New Orleans was gutted, including funds specifically aimed at the Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project.

Critics also cite the diversion of infrastructure funds and Louisiana National Guard troops to Iraq as contributing causes to the emergency. These factors clearly played a role, but, overall, if a body of scientifically inclined people from the inner city had been involved in flood control and evacuation planning, the consequences of hurricane Katrina would certainly have been managed more effectively.

Critics also cite the diversion of infrastructure funds and Louisiana National Guard troops to Iraq as contributing causes to the emergency.

A U.S. federal judge on Sunday temporarily blocked enforcement of a Louisiana law that advocates say would likely have closed all five abortion clinics in the state.

What if climate activists couched arguments in libertarian terms a call to support the Pacific islands, Alaskan coastal villages and Louisiana bayou communities whose property rights are being literally wiped out by fossil fuels and their climate impacts?

The measure, signed into law by Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal in June and due to take effect Sept. 1, would require doctors who perform abortions to have patient admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of their practice.