According to a coroner's report obtained by NBC News, Victor White, a 22-year-old black man, committed suicide in the back of a police car by shooting himself in the chest while his hands were cuffed behind his back. The report contradicts the official police account, which said White shot himself in the back.

When Louisiana ran out of lethal injection drugs this year, officials announced the state would switch to a new two-drug cocktail. But what they apparently failed to disclose was that the new drugs had been purchased from a hospital that thought it was healing prison hospital patients.

Princess Marks was arrested Friday when police found her children unattended in an SUV parked outside a Louisiana Walmart. When the 25-year-old returned to the vehicle, she allegedly told police she had been in her boyfriend's car, in the same parking lot, going down on him.

The warden of Louisiana's Angola prison says he is prepared to release inmate Kenny "Zulu" Whitmore from solitary confinement "When I can conclude he's not going to cause me the blues." Whitmore, a Black Panther, has been in solitary for a total of 35 years.

The video above, published by the Associated Press, shows a tour guide in Lafitte, Louisiana swimming with wild alligators, feeding them marshmallows straight out of his mouth.

With the close of the academic year, there are now no traditional public schools in New Orleans. The state-run school district is replacing them all with charter schools. That should fix everything.

In case you were wondering, sodomy is still illegal in Louisiana. Yesterday, the State House rejected an appeal of the state's unconstitutional anti-sodomy law. Those who support keeping that law shriek, "The children! Won't someone think of the children!" loudly and often, or at least they want you to think they do.

Last night, after Rep. Vance McAllister (R-La.) publicly apologized for snogging, on surveillance video, in his congressional office, a staffer who was not his wife, he received a text from a stranger: "Hey bro. How's your day goin." For some inexplicable reason, he replied—at length.

Rep. Vance McAllister, a freshman Republican congressman from Louisiana who made his Baptist faith a central focus of his campaign for Congress, has been making out in the dark with a staffer who was not his wife, according to surveillance video released today.

Perhaps you've never heard of Sabine Parish, Louisiana, up on the Texas border. It's most famous as the birthplace of Christopher Columbus Nash, who created the White League, a Christian white men's club like the KKK, except its members weren't anonymous. Old habits apparently die hard.

Godspeed, Senator. Huggies from all the staff here. You're gonna have to press a lot of flesh, but we all believe in your quest to pamper the hard-working citizens of Louisiana. Oh and don't forget to stay away from hookers.

Looks like we published The Year in Mass Shootings too early: Last night, a Louisiana man went on a shooting rampage, killing his current wife, his ex-mother-in-law, his former boss, and injuring three others before committing suicide.

What with the big uproar over Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson piping up against gay sex, let's all remember: sodomy is still illegal down there in Louisiana. Phil Robertson for Louisiana Attorney General!

Residents of Louisiana's Lafourche Parish will vote this Saturday on a controversial ballot proposal to use money currently financing the local library system in order to construct a brand new $25 million jail.

Police in Louisiana arrested a 15-year-old boy last week and charged him with terrorizing and interference with the operation of a school after he allegedly uploaded a YouTube video of himself "shooting" classmates using the popular mobile app Real Strike.

Go ahead and add "indoors" to the list of places where you could get struck by lightning at any moment.

It hasn't been a very good week for Congressional offspring.

An explosion at a chemical plant in Louisiana this morning has injured many—though no reports of fatalities as of yet. Hazmat units are attending to the accident at Williams Olefins Chemical Plant in Geismar, Louisiana. The plant churns out 1.3 billion pounds of ethylene and 90 million pounds of propylene per year. The industrial area is a little over 50 miles northwest from New Orleans, 30 miles southeast of Baton Rouge.

You can now get a fine for sagging your pants in a Louisiana town after the town council voted 8-to-1 in favor of an ordinance Wednesday night that makes sagging illegal.

As it turns out, this whole "evolution" thing isn't just a phase. And now Louisiana has to figure out whether we should be teaching it in our schools.