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ANALYSIS: Edwin Edwards' legacy? It's complicated KEVIN McGILL, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail FILE - In this Nov. 4, 2014, file photo, former Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards addresses the crowd during an election watch party in Baton Rouge, La. Edwards, the high-living four-term governor whose three-decade dominance of Louisiana politics was all but overshadowed by scandal and an eight-year federal prison stretch, died Monday, July 12, 2021, of respiratory problems. He was 93.Bill Feig/AP NEW ORLEANS (AP) — That Edwin Edwards' fame might have diminished a bit while he was imprisoned...

OPINION | PHILIP MARTIN: End of the hayride by Philip Martin | Today at 1:57 a.m. You can wear out your heart on the thin roads of southwest Louisiana amid the palmetto groves and the silvered shacks and the empty poverty of all the dying little towns. I used to live in one of those towns not far from a place called Crowley that lies in the sweltering flatlands beneath I-10, a fading city of low two- and three-story brick buildings that lead down Parkerson Avenue to the square built around the old WPA courthouse. When I was last there, nearly 40 years ago, the jail was in the basement.

Lafayette Daily Advertiser Former Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards, the charismatic Cajun rogue who served a record four terms in the Capitol as well as a stint in federal prison for corruption, died Monday morning. He was 93. Funeral arrangements are incomplete for Edwards, who entered hospice care last week. Edwards, the state’s last populist Democratic governor in the tradition of Huey Long and Earl Long, served consecutive terms from 1972 to 1980 and single terms from 1984 to 1988 and 1992 to 1996. Before that he served as a state senator from Crowley and then represented Acadiana in Congre...

Louisiana's ex-Lt. Gov. Jimmy Fitzmorris dies at 99 July 1, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 3 1of3File- This 1984 file photo shows Jimmy Fitzmorris discussing various topics in politics and the World's Fair. Fitzmorris, the affable two-time lieutenant governor who narrowly lost his long-sought-after bids for New Orleans mayor and Louisiana governor, has died. He was 99. Fitzmorris died Wednesday, June 30, 2021, his son-in-law Bruce Clement announced on his Facebook page Thursday. (Eliot Kamenitz/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP, File)Eliot Kamenitz/APShow MoreShow Les...

February 3, 2021 GMT BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Former Louisiana Senate President Michael O’Keefe, a powerful political figure in the 1970s and 1980s whose career ended when he was convicted of defrauding his business partners, has died. He was 89. O’Keefe died from cancer at his New Orleans home on Sunday, according to an obituary and statements released by his family. O’Keefe represented Orleans Parish in the state Senate from 1960 until 1984, the last eight years as president — the first state Senate president in Louisiana as allowed under a new state constitution. He served as the ...