NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The manslaughter charges brought against two relatively low-ranking BP rig workers in the deadly Gulf of Mexico disaster may be as far as federal prosecutors are willing to go....

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal isn’t getting involved in the Republican battle in Louisiana’s 3rd District congressional race. Jindal spokeswoman Shannon Bates said Monday...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Hundreds of people have turned out in Indianapolis for the funeral of a couple killed in a house explosion earlier this month. According to the Indianapolis Star, Monsignor...

ALONG THE GULF COAST (AP) — Dolphins are washing ashore along the northern Gulf Coast with bullet wounds, missing jaws and hacked off fins, and federal officials are looking into the mysterious deaths. ...

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — Twinkies will live to see another day. Hostess Brands Inc. and its second largest union agreed on Monday to try to resolve their differences after a bankruptcy court judge...

MBABANE, Swaziland (AP) — As the Church of England weighs whether it will allow women to become bishops, the Anglican Church has ordained its first female bishop in Africa. Ellinah Wamukoya, 61,...

HAVANA (AP) — Colombia’s main rebel group announced a unilateral cease-fire on Monday as it began much-anticipated peace talks, but the Bogota government responded that it would continue military...

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The wine-red walls of the Brueghel exhibition hall at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art are now bare, like the crime scene of a daring art heist. Tel Aviv’s leading art museum,...

(AP) — The state Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is offering up to $10,000 to help oyster harvesters buy refrigerators to comply with state and federal laws and regulations. Participants can...

(AP) — Louisiana’s public service commissioners have stalled an effort to cut prices on collect calls from parish jail and state prison inmates. The commission split 2-2, with one abstention,...