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Lil Wayne opens Trukstop skate park in hometown N.O. in lower ninth ward

By Associated Press September 26, 2012

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Lil Wayne is returning to New Orleans, his hometown, for the opening of the Trukstop skate park in the Lower 9th Ward — one of the most devastated sections of the city after...

Deadline nears for conservation program, applications due Friday

By Associated Press September 26, 2012

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Landowners interested in selling property to help Louisiana and federal coastal forest conservation efforts have until Friday to apply for part of the $7.4 million available...

Assumption Parish sinkhole expands, swallows several trees and roadways

By Associated Press September 26, 2012

NAPOLEONVILLE, La. (AP) — Officials say the sinkhole in Assumption Parish has swallowed up more trees and part of a road built to expedite cleanup activities as it continues to expand. Officials...

White House: President Obama views Libya attack as terrorism

By Associated Press September 26, 2012

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP) — The White House said Wednesday that President Barack Obama considers the deadly assault on the U.S. consulate in Libya a terrorist attack. White House spokesman Jay...

UC agrees to pay $1 million to finally settle pepper spray suit

By Associated Press September 26, 2012

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The University of California has agreed to pay $1 million to settle a lawsuit filed by demonstrators who were pepper-sprayed during an Occupy protest at UC Davis last fall, according...

Rise of evangelicals changes Brazil fashion, modest garb the new trend

By Associated Press September 26, 2012

ITABORAI, Brazil (AP) — Strolling down the main shopping drag in this working-class Rio de Janeiro suburb, it’s not the second-skin dresses in shocking pink spandex that catch the eye or even...

Hundreds of Nigerian pilgrims held in Saudi Arabia in poor conditions

By Associated Press September 26, 2012

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The detention of hundreds of female Nigerian pilgrims heading to Mecca at Saudi Arabia’s busiest airport over a rule requiring them to travel with a husband or male relative...

Zurich-based foundation says Da Vinci painted early Mona Lisa work

By Associated Press September 26, 2012

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The University of California has agreed to pay $1 million to settle a lawsuit filed by demonstrators who were pepper-sprayed during an Occupy protest at UC Davis last fall, according...

Broussard pleads guilty in corruption case, could receive 15 years in prison

By The Associated Press September 25, 2012

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Former Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard pleaded guilty Tuesday to federal corruption charges, admitting he cheated taxpayers in a payroll fraud scheme and took payoffs...

Corps off the hook for Katrina levee break, New Orleans residents upset

By The Associated Press September 25, 2012

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A surprise ruling by a federal appeals court that lets the Army Corps of Engineers off the hook for paying compensation for Hurricane Katrina’s catastrophic flooding isn’t...

This Sept. 23, 2012 photo, provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, shows a dead bottlenose dolphin they say somebody shot and killed, which was found dead over the weekend on Elmer’s Island in Jefferson Parish, La. The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society is offering a $1,500 reward for information leading to the conviction of the person or people who shot the dolphin. (AP Photo/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)

Dead dolphin found in Louisiana was shot in lung, reward offered

By The Associated Press September 25, 2012

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Someone shot and killed a bottlenose dolphin found over the weekend on Elmer’s Island Wildlife Refuge, and there’s a $1,500 reward for information leading to a conviction,...

Idaho woman’s prison time extended for stick-figure threat sent from jail

By The Associated Press September 25, 2012

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A woman who was about to be released from an Idaho prison will stay behind bars a while longer because federal prosecutors say she mailed a threatening stick figure drawing to...