(AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal’s administration sent formal notification Wednesday to federal officials that Louisiana won’t create its own health insurance market as provided by the national...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A New Orleans based U.S. Coast Guard anti-terrorism team is scheduled to return home Wednesday evening from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba after a six-month deployment in support of Operation...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Trumpet-maker Jason Harrelson said he’s donating one of the best trumpets he’s ever made to benefit a festival honoring the artist who sparked his passion for the instrument...
MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) — Lawyers turned over recordings Wednesday of Waffle House CEO Joe Rogers Jr. engaged in sexual acts that were made by a woman who alleges the executive forced her to engage in...
HAVANA (AP) — Cuban authorities say power has been almost completely restored in the eastern city of Santiago nearly three weeks after Hurricane Sandy.
A report in Communist Party newspaper Granma...
Scientists have identified a new gene variant that seems to strongly raise the risk for Alzheimer’s disease, giving a fresh target for research into treatments for the mind-robbing disorder.
The...
PARIS (AP) — First the French government went after the rich. Now it has it in for Nutella.
Despite an outcry in support of the beloved chocolate and hazelnut spread, the Senate passed a measure...
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — The unique bird and reptile species that make the Galapagos Islands a treasure for scientists and tourists must be preserved, Ecuadorean authorities say — and that means...
WEST MONROE (AP) — Louisiana College asked for approval Monday from the Louisiana Baptist Convention to ask for $12 million from the organization’s member churches.
Louisiana College President...
(AP) — A team of three emergency responders from the Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services has traveled to New Jersey to help officials there with their sheltering mission following...
SEATTLE (AP) — Two snowboarders who spent two nights stranded on Mount Rainier were well enough to snowshoe out Tuesday after rescuers had to “swim” through snow that was chest-deep in...
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — If you were to diagram the increasingly tangled sex scandal involving former CIA Director David Petraeus, nearly all lines would lead back to one person: Jill Kelley, a 37-year-old...
