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Francine is spreading dangerous conditions across the South Thursday after it slammed into Louisiana with extreme rainfall, life-threatening flooding and destructive winds.
Antebellum Louisiana was a leading slave state, where by 1860, 47% of the population was enslaved. Louisiana seceded from the Union on January 26, 1861, joining the Confederate States of America. New Orleans, the largest city in the entire South at the time, and strategically important port city, was taken by Union troops on April 25, 1862.
Saman Shafiq, USA TODAY December 18, 2024 at 1:52 PM Dozens of cars piled up on a bridge near New Orleans after dense foggy conditions in Louisiana caused multiple car crashes.
Editor's Note: This page is a summary of news on Hurricane Francine for Wednesday, Sept. 11. For the latest, view our story for Thursday, Sept. 12. Francine made landfall along the Louisiana coast ...
September 1, 2008 – Hurricane Gustav reached the Louisiana coast on the morning of September 1, making landfall near Cocodrie, Louisiana as a Category 2 with maximum sustained winds of 105 mph. The center of the storm continued northwest across the state resulting in significant damage and 7 deaths; 34 parishes were declared as disaster areas.
By the late 1920s, Louisiana's incidence rate of leprosy reached an all-time high of 12 per 100,000. [11] However, leprosy never became an epidemic in Louisiana and at the most residents Carville ever had was about 400 people. [12] By the early 1990s, the leprosarium had a budget of $21 million in U.S. per year.
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Classes are canceled at a Louisiana high school where a student was shot to death and two others were injured, authorities said. The names and ages of the victims of the shooting at St. Helena ...