Whatever one might say about Edwin W. Edwards and the late Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, they were always good Democrats. One of them died recently, having waged a courageous battle with cancer. She ...

Former Gov. Edwin W. Edwards won approval Thursday from the Louisiana Real Estate Commission to apply for a real estate broker’s license. The vote was 7-2. The decision came after Edwards, 87, ...

Edwin W. Edwards recently spent nine years in prison after being convicted for extorting millions of dollars in exchange for riverboat gambling licenses, and now he’s running for office. The ...

Since Edwin Edwards’ death last summer, Louisianans have had time to ponder the legacy of our history-making four-term governor. Edwards was a bundle of contradictions: Courteous but conniving, ...

Edwin Edwards waves to reporters before entering the Federal Medical Center- Fort Worth in Oct. 2002. WASHINGTON -- President George W. Bush left office Tuesday without acting on former Louisiana Gov.

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 ...

GONZALES, La. — The late, former Louisiana governor Edwin Edwards wrote his final wishes in just a few sentences on a sheet of legal paper in 2017, and that handwritten document was filed this week in ...

Even by the standards of Louisiana, which has the most bizarre and Byzantine politics of any state in the union -- "colorful" is the euphemism often resorted to by the press -- Edwin W. Edwards was a ...

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NEW ORLEANS -- In his heyday, Edwin W. Edwards famously and frequently declared that the only way he'd lose a race was if he were found in bed with a dead woman or a live boy. The suave, high-living ...