Former Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards, a Democrat who served four terms as governor and nearly 10 years in federal prison for extortion, conspiracy and racketeering, has died at age 93. Former Louisiana ...

A populist firebrand of Louisiana politics has died. Four-term Democratic Gov. Edwin Edwards, who also served prison time for corruption, died Monday at his home in Gonzales, La. He was 93. A ...

BATON ROUGE, La. – Events marking the death of former Louisiana Gov. Edwin W. Edwards were set to begin Saturday with a public viewing in the marble-trimmed Memorial Hall of the state Capitol where ...

She was a Washington Mardi Gras queen, a model, an actress, a high school teacher – and the second oldest child of Edwin Edwards, the only four-term governor in Louisiana history. Now at 71, Victoria ...

Former Gov. Edwin Edwards - four-time Louisiana governor, convicted felon and recent failed TV reality star - announced this afternoon at the Baton Rouge Press Club that he would be running for ...

Former Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards turns 90 today. Edwards, a Democrat, will celebrate with a sold-out birthday bash Saturday night in Baton Rouge at the Renaissance Hotel. Before he was first ...

The Rascal Who Stopped the KlansmanEdwin Edwards went from the governor’s mansion to the penitentiary and back again, saving Louisiana from David Duke. Louisiana Has Two Living Ex-Governors: An Old Ex ...

E.L. “Bubba” Henry, a self-described country lawyer who rose to the top echelons of Louisiana politics by serving two terms as speaker of the state House during the 1970s, died Wednesday in Baton ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Mourners steadily filed by the flag-draped open casket of former Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards on Saturday, saying their farewells at a public viewing in the marble-trimmed main ...