KENNER (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday that it has accepted a preliminary application to lease Louisiana's largest commercial airport to a private operator.The FAA's action...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — As police charged a Yale animal lab technician with murdering a graduate student who worked in his building, a portrait began to emerge Thursday of an unpleasant stickler...

(AP) — Home sales in the Baton Rouge metro area fell just 4 percent in August, a tighter margin for a year that's seen double-digit gaps every other month.Realtors sold 630 homes compared with 658...

WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time in two years, Americans actually got a little wealthier. Household wealth grew by $2 trillion, or about 4 percent, this spring, ending the longest stretch of...

BRUSSELS (AP) — EU leaders issued a joint plea to President Barack Obama on Thursday to back their call for rich and developing nations to cap bankers' pay and to impose deeper cuts on emissions...

(AP) — A nearly $45 million list of new state construction spending is moving ahead. The state Bond Commission approved the list of projects Thursday without objection. That list includes local museums,...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A nonpartisan research group has joined the state ethics board in calling for changes to ethics laws Gov. Bobby Jindal pushed through the Legislature in 2008. On Thursday, the...

HOBART, Australia (AP) — A cat named Clyde was reunited with his owner on Wednesday after a mysterious three-year odyssey in which the long-haired Himalayan strayed 2,400 miles into the Australian...

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — Clyde Wagnon retired 25 years ago and decided he didn't like it.So the 90-year-old Idaho Falls resident is going back to school, pursuing a master's degree in business administration.Wagnon's...

(AP) — The two panels charged with finding ways to trim government costs got their targets Wednesday from Gov. Bobby Jindal: a combined $948 million in budget cutting ideas. Jindal asked for $802...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate voted Wednesday to permit passengers on the Amtrak passenger railroad to transport handguns in their checked baggage. The proposal, approved by a 68-30 vote, seeks to...

CAMP BUCCA, Iraq (AP) — The U.S. military on Wednesday closed Camp Bucca, an isolated desert prison that was once its largest lockup in Iraq, as it moves to release thousands of detainees or transfer...