NEW ORLEANS (AP) — President Obama's administration allowed fish farming in federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, a move criticized by environmentalists fearful of pollution and threats...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Jonathan Bray, one of the organizers of Southern Decadence, a celebration that has become known as the gay Mardi Gras, spent his time this week getting ready for the big party...
ROME (AP) — A group of 91 countries reached an agreement Tuesday on a U.N.-backed treaty that aims to leave those engaged in illegal fishing without a safe haven. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization,...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The United States is increasing pressure on the interim Honduras government, threatening to cut off millions of dollars promised for farming and transportation projects if the...
(AP) — In two years, Louisiana has moved from 44th in the nation to second in the percentage of toddlers getting their vaccinations on time.The National Immunization Survey by the Centers for Disease...
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — The Brazilian Senate has approved a bill that would allow consensual divorces to be filed and resolved on the Internet.The Senate's official news agency says the bill would...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Firefighters reported some progress Tuesday against a gigantic blaze on the edge of Los Angeles, but warned that this one might be just a preview of even greater dangers ahead....
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesians ran screaming out of buildings when a major earthquake rocked the country Wednesday, killing more than 30 people and unleashing a mass of rock and mud that buried...
(AP) — A Monroe pastor who heads a national interfaith organization said Gov. Bobby Jindal should pay his own way, rather than use taxpayer dollars, when he travels to church services around the...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal authorities failed to follow through on plans earlier this year to burn away highly flammable brush in a forest on the edge of Los Angeles to avoid the very kind of wildfire...
PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico (AP) — Jimena strengthened into a dangerous Category 4 hurricane off Mexico's Pacific coast Sunday, and forecasters said it could hit the Baja California peninsula as a major...
(AP) — A Louisiana State Medical Society survey finds that many physicians will cut down on their Medicaid care because of a recent 10 percent cut in the money they receive for the patients. Two-thirds...
