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House Speaker Clay Schexnayder this morning launched a probe in response to an Associated Press report last month that showed Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards was informed within hours that troopers arresting Ronald Greene engaged in a “violent, lengthy struggle,” yet he kept quiet for two years as State Police told a much different story to the victim’s family and in official reports: that Greene died from a crash after a high-speed chase.

A Louisiana Senate committee advanced a map of revised state Supreme Court districts today...

Members of Gov. John Bel Edwards' staff were in communication with people involved in...

A proposed new congressional district map that would create a second mostly Black district was rejected Tuesday by Louisiana's Senate, which instead approved a map that looks very similar to the current configuration.

The small details and behind-the-scenes bartering involved with redistricting are sucking the oxygen out of the state Capitol, and the anxiety and politics may all be for nothing if the maps produced are challenged in court. 

The two Louisiana State Police detectives in charge of the Ronald Greene investigation met with Gov. John Bel Edwards' top attorney this week in the state Capitol to discuss the case, USA Today Network reports. 

The Louisiana Legislature opened its special session on political redistricting Tuesday with 22 proposals for reworking boundaries for the state’s seats in Congress, the state Senate, Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, Public Service Commission and on the state Supreme Court. More proposals are in the works for the Louisiana House of Representatives.

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards has scheduled a 4:30 p.m. news conference today to address the growing chorus of questions

The Louisiana Supreme Court recently ruled that a man who drove someone else’s car as a favor to get a tire fixed wasn’t covered when he got in an accident. 

Louisiana’s top GOP lawmaker today weighed taking legislative action against Gov. John Bel Edwards for “gross misconduct and the highest level of deceit” in his response to the deadly 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene.