PAJU, South Korea (AP) - North Korea on Wednesday barred South Korean workers from entering a jointly run factory park just over the heavily armed border in the North in the latest sign that Pyongyang's warlike stance toward South Korea and the United States is moving from words to action.... more »
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - A judge has refused to suppress a man's videotaped statement in which he confessed that he fatally shot two employees of a Baton Rouge auto parts store in 2011. The Advocate reports Judge Richard Anderson's ruling Monday means a jury will be allowed to hear... more »
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A federal judge refused Thursday to postpone an April 4 sentencing hearing for five current or former police officers convicted in deadly shootings on a New Orleans bridge after Hurricane Katrina. The officers' lawyers had asked U.S. District Judge Kurt Engelhardt to delay the hearing until... more »
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A federal magistrate has ruled that Transocean Ltd. doesn't have to make its CEO, Steve Newman, available to testify at a trial for tens of thousands of court claims spawned by the Gulf oil spill in 2010. BP PLC, which leased the Transocean-owned rig that caught... more »
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The owner of the rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico is refusing to honor subpoenas from a federal board that has challenged the company's involvement in monitoring the testing of a key piece of equipment that failed to stop the oil spill disaster. Transocean... more »
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A federal judge who overturned the Obama administration's initial six-month moratorium on deepwater oil drilling has refused to disqualify himself from the case. Several environmental groups had asked U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman to withdraw from the case because of his investments in several oil and... more »
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - The speaker of the state House is refusing to cut the state's income projections, despite economists' expectations the state will end the year with a budget defict. The refusal by House Speaker Jim Tucker to allow the Revenue Estimating Conference to revise its estimates Friday... more »