Former Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco died Sunday at the age of 76 after a long battle with cancer. Blanco died from complications from ocular melanoma. As soon as the news broke, friends and ...

BATON ROUGE, La. -- Even after Hurricane Katrina ended her political career and as cancer ate away her strength, former Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco still described her life as "charmed." With ...

Former Gov. Kathleen Blanco, who recently revealed she is suffering from a form of liver cancer without a known cure, called for University of Louisiana-Lafayette graduates to embrace civility in a ...

(Reuters) - Trailblazing former Louisiana Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, whose tenure was dominated by the trauma of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005, has died from complications of cancer, ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Former Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, who became the state's first female elected governor only to see her political career derailed by the devastation of Hurricane ...

Gov. Kathleen Blanco's large family gathered in New Iberia on Saturday for a special ceremony in honor of her trailblazing political career. Dozens of the governor's children, grandchildren, siblings ...

New Iberia honored former Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco with a new statue and museum exhibit. Blanco was the first woman elected governor of Louisiana, leading the state during Hurricanes Katrina and ...