Kentucky Senator Spirits, a name synonymous with rich, small-batch bourbon, is making waves by expanding into Louisiana with not one but two exciting offerings. The award-winning brand, known for it ...

Huey Long ran roughshod through Louisiana politics for a decade, first as governor and then U.S. senator before he was gunned down inside the state Capitol in Baton Rouge in 1935.

Long was born on Aug. 30, 1893, in Winnfield, Louisiana. He grew up on a family farm where the soil was “too poor to raise much cotton,” so they focused on cattle and hogs. It was a “self ...

For all his populist promises, the reality of living under Huey Long was a painful one, and the damage he did to Louisiana has never fully been repaired. During his time in politics, he hurt a lot ...

For his first meeting with presidential candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt, in 1932, Huey P. Long dressed in his flamboyant Kingfish mode: plaid suit, purple shirt, pink necktie.

Huey P. Long, historian Arthur Schlesinger explained in a 1986 Ken Burns documentary, was the closest thing to a dictator the U.S. has ever seen.

Cpt. Ronnie Jones, Lt. Donald Moreau, and Roy Fontenot of the Louisiana State Police talk at a press conference in 1992. Jones is holding up a picture of the bullet hole in Huey Long's jacket.

Louisianans either loved or hated Huey P. Long; there was no middle ground with “the Kingfish.” In the relatively short span between his election as Louisiana governor in 1928 and his death ...

On Sept. 8, 1985, 50 years almost to the minute from the time of Long`s assassination, ”Huey Long” had its premiere in the Louisiana State Capitol, the site of the slaying.

Huey Long was a powerful and controversial figure in Louisiana politics, and was assassinated September 8, 1935. A panel of Long family members and family friends discussed the life, legacy, and ...

There are oil wells amid the crawfish along the bayous now. And to the north, right across from Huey Long`s statue in his hometown of Winnfield, there is a place selling satellite-reception dishes ...