Two of the officers involved in the unexplained shooting that killed six-year-old Jeremy Mardis in Marksville, Louisiana have been arrested and charged with second-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder, according to multiple reports.

New details and an explicit disavowal of the initial explanation suddenly make the fatal shooting of six-year-old Jeremy Mardis look like the result of disastrous recklessness by local police, if not something worse.

Louisiana officials say a six-year-old boy was fatally shot when marshals opened fire on his father’s car while the man fled from an attempt to serve a warrant. The boy was riding in the car’s passenger seat.

Derek Myers, a television reporter with NBC affiliate WVLA in Baton Rouge, was fired from the network Tuesday after asking U.S. Senator and Louisiana gubernatorial candidate David Vitter about his admitted history of patronizing prostitutes. Myers believes that he was terminated because Vitter’s campaign threatened to pull $250,000 in advertising from WVLA over the confrontation.

A video that spread online earlier this week, showing a teenage McDonald’s employee being pulled through a drive-thru window and into a car, seemed too crazy to be real. But the attack wasn’t staged, and charges have been filed against the woman who allegedly grabbed the worker, plus three others in the car with her.

Everyone knows that racism is over in America. We have a black president! Come on. Think about Oprah, and Jay Z is pretty famous too. What’s the problem, all those officially sanctioned monuments to violent white supremacist uprisings against the government? I mean, we’re working on taking them down. Baby steps.

According to NBC News, a man was arrested in Sunset, Louisiana on Wednesday after allegedly stabbing three women, killing one of them, fatally shooting a police officer and crashing his car into a convenience store.

Authorities announced Friday that John Houser, despite a history of mental illness and having been denied a concealed-carry permit seven years earlier, was able to legally acquire, in 2014, the 40-caliber handgun with which he killed three people and injured nine others at a Louisiana movie theater this week.

According to the Associated Press, a gunman shot nine victims at a showing of Trainwreck in Lafayette, Louisiana Thursday night, killing two, before fatally shooting himself.

After 43 years of solitary confinement in Louisiana’s Angola prison, Albert Woodfox has been freed by a federal judge who wrote that “there is no valid conviction holding him in prison, let alone solitary confinement.” Woodfox has been convicted twice of killing a prison guard—and both convictions have been overturned.

According to NBC News, Louisiana’s Republican Governor Bobby Jindal will be making “a major announcement” about his 2016 plans later this month. Which—barring an declaration that he seeks to abolish the federal government and name himself Jindalator Supreme—means that he, too, is likely running for president.

An officer with the Housing Authority of New Orleans was found shot to death in his patrol vehicle at around 7 a.m. Sunday morning, NOLA.com reports. According to police, the car still had its lights on and was in drive, apparently having come to stop after hitting a curb.

Bobby Jindal launched a presidential exploratory committee today, because hey, that’s what you do. Presumably he’ll be exploring outside the state he governs, because as much as Louisianans hate Democrats and Obummer, they hate Bobby more, a new poll shows.

Louisiana governor and presumed 2016 presidential contender Bobby Jindal has an op-ed in The New York Times in which he takes a stand against everyone taking a stand against businesses taking a stand against gay marriage, and publicizes his push to pass a bill forbidding his state from taking “adverse action” against businesses that discriminate against same-sex couples. How brave.

A Louisiana family's argument about orange juice ended in bloodshed and an arrest for attempted manslaughter Sunday morning after a father allegedly shot his teenage son in the ass with a .357 revolver.

Jefferson Parish, La. police's account of the arrest of 17-year-old Brady Becker last Friday night has been called into question after video of an undercover detective punching the teen in the face while pinned to the ground surfaced online.

Original Teen Mom™ and Britney's kid sister Jamie Lynn Spears has seen some shit in her 23 years, which is perhaps why she was able to allegedly shut down a violent brawl at a sandwich shop last weekend by pulling a huge knife.

The Louisiana teen who reportedly bragged about having a threesome with two of his high school teachers is very, very sorry about the whole thing, according the teen's grandfather.

As any American looking to eat out on a budget, I'm not one to pass up a great deal, and this one is arguably better than the McDonald's value menu: Bring your gun to Bergeron's Restaurant in Port Allen, La. and get 10 percent off your order for making the owner feel "safer." "I just need to see a weapon. I need you to be carrying a gun," Kevin Cox told NBC33.

If there's anything to be learned from last year's "most deranged sorority girl email ever," it's that the internal communications of sororities are endlessly charming, fascinating, and full of the word "cunt." The Louisiana State University chapter of Tri Delta has proven that once again this week with a leaked parody song trashing the "fucking lards" and "poser cunts" in every other sorority on campus