BAYOU CORNE (AP) — A well drilled to examine a failed salt cavern has penetrated the roof of the deep cavern to begin tests to learn whether its failure caused a huge sinkhole in Assumption Parish. ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Details of an agreement to clean up the troubled New Orleans Police Department were heard Friday by a federal judge who must approve the reforms. The agreement, spelled out in...

LAFAYETTE (AP) — The star of the hit CW television series “The Vampire Diaries” stopped at a doggy kissing booth and told fans he’s going to create a sanctuary to rehabilitate both...

MARINA, Calif. (AP) — In the Central California coastal town of Marina, a $7 million desalination plant that can turn salty ocean waves into fresh drinking water sits idle behind rusty, locked doors,...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — The love letters, school papers and dramatic works of college-age Joseph Goebbels reveal a romantic young man beginning to show signs of anti-Semitism and egotistical and...

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — City authorities in Zimbabwe’s second largest city said Saturday they were appealing to home owners to flush their toilets at a specified time as a way to unblock sewers...

(AP) — In a now familiar global ritual, Apple fans jammed shops across the globe to pick up the tech juggernaut’s latest iPhone. Eager buyers formed long lines Friday at Apple Inc. stores...

MILAN (AP) — At least the fashion world can agree on one antidote to the financial crisis: Color. Black, a wardrobe staple that might be a safe haven in a crisis, is not a mainstay of the previews...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Florida man has been convicted by a federal jury in New Orleans of child sex trafficking charges. Thirty-year-old Benson December Coriolant, of Orlando, Fla., faces a maximum...

LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — Lafayette police are investigating an incident in which a substitute teacher at J. Wallace James Elementary School allegedly taped a student’s mouth shut to keep the child...

AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — A new chemical analysis shows that virtually all the tar balls now washing onto the Alabama coast are directly linked to the BP oil spill that occurred more than two years ago. ...

ATLANTA (AP) — Chick-fil-A is once again in the public relations fryer. The controversy flared up this week when a Chicago politician said the company was no longer giving to groups that oppose...