NEW ORLEANS (AP) - New Orleans Archbishop Gregory Aymond says retired Archbishop Philip Hannan is expected to be moved from a hospital to a skilled nursing facility. The 97-year-old Hannan was hospitalized Dec. 19 because of shortness of breath, after more than a week in bed because of pneumonia. Aymond... more »
The America Foundation for Suicide Prevention will have their Out of the Darkness Community Walk on October 9th. The event will take place at Parc Sans Souci from 8am - Noon. There will be music, breakfast snacks, coffee, and drinks. Along with a raffle filled with wonderful prizes. Tickets for... more »
CAMERON, La. - First Baptist Church in Cameron will celebrate its grand reopening Saturday, five years and one day after Hurricane Rita nearly obliterated the town. Such upbeat milestones have been rare in Cameron, which has seen its population shrink from roughly 1,500 to 280 residents since Rita and Hurricane... more »
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - The Jindal administration's plan to give $30 million to steelmaker Nucor for an iron and steel plant in St. James Parish is throwing the state's construction budget out of balance. To make the numbers work, some of the new construction projects lawmakers and the administration... more »
SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) - Cody Mikesell says bats are driving him out of a Shreveport apartment complex. KSLA-TV reports it filmed dozens of bats flying out of the complex about an hour after dusk. Mikesell says he and other tenants have been complaining since March about the noise and the... more »
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Louisiana lost its second bid to get a slice of the billions of dollars in federal education grant money available in the "Race to the Top" competition. The state was not chosen Tuesday by the U.S. Education Department for the latest round of the $4.4... more »
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - BP and the Obama administration face mounting complaints that they are ignoring foreign offers of equipment and making little use of the fishing boats and volunteers available to help clean up what may now be the biggest spill ever in the Gulf of Mexico. The Coast... more »
WASHINGTON (AP) - James Lee Witt, America's go-to guy for disaster response, knows how to take an unpopular organization and turn it around. If BP hires the former Federal Emergency Management Agency director to help with community relations, it could further a makeover of the oil giant's Gulf Coast image.... more »
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Tropical Storm Ida is prompting some flight cancellations at Louisiana's largest commercial airport.
An American Airlines spokeswoman says the carrier and regional American Eagle have cancelled late Monday flights from Dallas, Miami, Chicago and St. Louis into Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport due to... more »