NEW ORLEANS -- Louisiana's only four-term governor, Edwin Edwards, is turning 90-years-old on Aug. 7. To say he is a colorful character is an understatement. Edwards, who was always dogged by ...

50 years after he first won a congressional seat, Edwin Edwards is asking voters to send him back to Washington. The four-time former governor is a Louisiana legend, but – as Sue Lincoln reports – it ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) – Former Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards has been hospitalized with pneumonia but his wife says he is responding well to treatment. “He’s tired, but overall he’s doing well” after being ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Former Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards is in the hospital, and his wife is telling a television station that her 89-year-old husband has ...

I haven’t decided if our governor is channeling Edwin Edwards, with his flashy powder blue suits, light tan shoes and Cajun accent, or Huey Long, given his interference with and demagoguery of the LSU ...