Rental boats are available at the park’s launch area, where a well-weathered sign proclaiming “BEWARE ALLIGATORS DO NOT FEED” ...

Rental boats are available at the park’s boat launch, where a weathered sign warning “BEWARE ALLIGATORS DO NOT FEED” serves ...

To really experience the scenery and wildlife of a Louisiana swamp, you need to find a way to go deep into the woods, away from the traffic and commotion of daily life.

Thankfully that doesn't literally mean any food in Shreveport is unhealthy, the researchers mean that according to data the share of obese residents is high, while the number of people not eating ...

ANGOLA, La. (AP) — Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put a man to death Tuesday evening for a killing decades ago, marking the first time the state has used the method as it resumed executions ...

Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, to death Tuesday evening in the state's first execution in 15 years. Nitrogen gas has been used just four other times to execute a person ...

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Louisiana on Tuesday executed a death row inmate using nitrogen gas for the first time in state history and only the fifth time in U.S. history. Death row inmate Jessie Hoffman's execution is the ...

A convicted murderer and rapist in Louisiana was executed by nitrogen gas Tuesday night, marking the state’s first death row killing in 15 years — and the first time the lethal method was used ...

Florence Ruffin, back right, is the sister of Hoffman. (Chris Granger/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP) Darrel Vannoy, center, the warden of Louisiana State Penitentiary, walks into ...