(AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal is donating $30,000 in campaign donations to charity after the Florida donor was accused of orchestrating a $1 billion Ponzi scheme.The money was funneled to Jindal's campaign...
(AP) — A government cost-cutting panel wants tightened monitoring of the thousands of contracts, totaling millions, that state government agencies enter into each year.The Commission on Streamlining...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin man transformed his apartment into a pornographic shrine to young girls, arranging mannequins in a sex act and setting up a bed covered with stuffed animals, investigators...
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) — Officials at the University of California, Santa Cruz say dozens of protesters who were occupying the university's main administrative building have ended their protest.Campus...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The creatures living in the depths of the ocean are as weird and outlandish as the creations in a Dr. Seuss book: tentacled transparent sea cucumbers, primitive "dumbos" that flap...
HOUMA (AP) — A grand jury in Houma has indicted a Chauvin man accused of beating and smothering his girlfriend's 10-month-old baby on a first-degree murder charge. Authorities say 23-year-old William...
CAIRO (AP) — Angry soccer fans rampaged through a posh diplomatic neighborhood in Cairo over the weekend, smashing shop windows and shouting obscenities in a frenzy fed by venomous headlines that...
LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say five male students have been arrested on suspicion of sexual battery after two ninth-grade girls were attacked at a Long Beach high school. Long Beach Police...
CALABASAS, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say a 12-year-old boy assaulted by a group of middle school classmates in Southern California may have been targeted after an Internet posting urged students...
SHREVEPORT (AP) — A vacant house in Shreveport that served as the backdrop for four homicides in two years has been reduced to a mound of rubble by city order.A homeless man was gunned down inside...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran on Sunday began large-scale air defense war games aimed at protecting its nuclear facilities from attack, state TV reported, as an air force commander boasted the country...
THIBODAUX (AP) — Nicholls State says it does more than educate Louisiana residents, it's also a big contributor to the state's work force. According to data compiled and released by Nicholls on Tuesday,...
