Many of these chimps have been imprisoned and used in laboratory testing for 50 years without seeing sunlight. Now they start a new life at Chimp Haven.

It finally happened: a flash mob turned into a giant brawl in a mall in Louisiana.

Did you know that the totally proven* existence of the Loch Ness Monster Dinosaur means creationism is true and evolution is fake forever.

If you're a sex offender in Louisiana, you have to identify yourself as such on Facebook, officially.

It's no secret that YouTube has been a boon to young, struggling musicians looking to make a name for themselves, providing the opportunity to showcase talents to and from any point on the globe, eliminating, or at least lessening, the need for geographical proximity to the music industry's kingmakers.

As you may have heard, the Mississippi River is more swollen than it's been in decades and, in an effort to prevent the flooding of New Orleans and Baton Rouge, the Army Corps of Engineers has opened a couple of floodgates diverting a lot of the Mississippi's excess water into rural Louisiana.

I really don't want to talk about this.

One of the fun things about being from Louisiana is subscribing to the Twitter feeds of various Louisiana-based news outlets and seeing some of the ridiculous headlines that flash across my dashboard.