The Huey P. Long Bridge will be closed in both directions for 48 hours this weekend as crews begin demolishing the old lanes after traffic switched to new lanes last month as part of the $1.2 ...

Huey Pierce Long Jr. met an early demise nearly 90 years ago from an assassin’s bullet, but he remains an enduring figure in U.S. politics.A left-wing Democrat with a populist edge, he became a ...

The Huey P. Long Bridge, photographed on June 7, 2013, in the final days of a $1.2 billion widening project started in April 2006. The bridge, originally opened December 1935, was widened from two ...

On this day in 1935, a Sunday, Sen. Huey Long was shot in the Louisiana state Capitol by the son-in-law of a political enemy. He died about 30 hours later at age 42. News of Long’s death made ...

BATON ROUGE, La. -- BATON ROUGE, La. For his first meeting with presidential candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt, in 1932, Huey P. Long dressed in his flamboyant Kingfish mode: plaid suit, purple ...

Louisiana’s Huey Long had been a senator for less than four years when an assassin gunned him down at the State Capitol building in Baton Rouge on Sept. 8, 1935. His last words were, “God, don ...

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.

Huey’s cynical theory was — and remains — a common enough thought but nary so well expressed. It would apply just as well now to the supposedly crucial policy differences between Hillary ...

The west bank bound lanes on the Huey P. Long Bridge will close on Friday night until Monday morning.The closure will begin at 10 p.m. Friday.In addition to the lane closures, the entire bridge in ...

Huey Long Understood Paul Greenberg | Mar 26, 2016 The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of Townhall.com.