Work has recently been completed on three new buildings in the Legacy Park area of student housing on the University of Louisiana at Lafayette campus. The new units feature apartment-style...

Lafayette’s Little League Junior All-State team is headed to the southwest regionals in Midland, Texas. Members of the team are, back row, left to right: Coach Jerry Plauché, Manager Rudy Garza,...

LAFAYETTE — The proposed city-parish budget for next year cuts 23 vacant positions, increases employee health insurance premiums, nixes raises except for firefighters and pulls spending in most...

OPELOUSAS — A St. Landry Parish grand jury has indicted a 25-year-old Opelousas man on a manslaughter charge in the May 6 death of his girlfriend’s 2-year-old daughter. The grand jury...

STEM Academy fair set for this weekend LAFAYETTE — Parents and students can learn more about the Lafayette Parish School System’s newest schools of choice option — the STEM Academy...

BATON ROUGE, La. -- The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals reopens three oyster harvesting areas east of the Mississippi River, including Lake Borgne (born) in Orleans Parish.Secretary...

Holt Webb revs the engine of a borrowed four-wheeler. "We're headed to the only natural beach on Grand Isle." A gulf breeze whips through the artist's hair as he stops his ride on a bare...

City of New Orleans New Orleans City Council members announced on Friday that they will take a 10 percent salary cut.The announcement came as the council and Mayor Mitch Landrieu's administration...

For Tim Gautreaux, a Louisiana local whose family is immersed in the oil industry, the BP leak means the death of his whole community. And things can only get...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's biggest television network canceled a popular news show to protest the kidnapping of four reporters in what media advocates said Friday is an escalation of a...

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — The former chief of Chile's feared secret police who was convicted in the 1974 assassination of Gen. Augusto Pinochet's biggest enemy in exile says the CIA committed the...

BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - A multi-car crash that sent five people to the hospital and closed down I-10 West Friday afternoon was allegedly caused by a drunk driver. Police say Leroy Fisher's...

www.ksfcounsel.com ), a nationally recognized Louisiana-based law firm with offices also in New York, and KSF partner Charles C. Foti, Jr., former Attorney General of Louisiana, announce that a class...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders' hopes of becoming a Dutch Cabinet minister evaporated Friday after exploratory talks to include him in a right-wing coalition...

LIMA, Peru (AP) — A Peruvian journalist whom the U.S. deported to Russia this month in a spy swap is free to return home but her Russian husband could be charged with lying on his citizenship...

LAFAYETTE — Parents and students can learn more about the Lafayette Parish School System’s newest schools of choice option – the STEM Academy during a fair from noon to 4 p.m....

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Lorenzen Wright's ex-wife was threatened at her home by three men who were carrying guns and looking for the former NBA player about six weeks before he was shot to death, the...

BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - A Baton Rouge man is facing charges after allegedly threatening to kill a murder witness. Marcus Hasten, 24, is accused of calling the witness and a friend of the witness...

KENTWOOD, LA (WAFB) - A 35-year-old Kentwood man has been arrested after narcotics agents intercepted a package containing 22 pounds of marijuana being sent to him. According to reports, Markcalus...

BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - One suspect has been arrested and another is still on the loose after a deadly shooting Thursday afternoon in the 1900 block of Mariner.Jordan Daigre, 20, was arrested...

MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Liberia's government, still recovering from a 14-year civil war and previous decades of poverty and illiteracy, said Friday it will now require all children to get...

MOSCOW (AP) — President Dmitry Medvedev's human rights adviser has resigned after a Kremlin-backed youth organization threatened her with a libel suit for her harsh...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Federal officials predicted Friday that most Gulf Coast beaches have seen their last major oiling from the BP spill, and South Florida and the East Coast should be spared any...

Boris Johnson Mayor of London poses for the media as a new cycle hire scheme starts in London, Friday, July 30, 2010, with the London Eye in background. The cycle hire scheme aims to enable travelers...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- With approval from federal officials, Louisiana has reopened to commercial fishing a portion of state waters that had been closed because of the BP oil...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- The South is roasting under temperatures and humidity that make beaches feel more like a bakehouse, and heat advisories were posted from the Atlantic to the Great...

BILOXI, MS (AP) - BP's incoming CEO said it's time to scale back the massive effort to clean up the oil spill, but added the commitment to make things right is the same as ever. Bob Dudley...

RAMAH, LA (WAFB) - Investigators said the driver of an 18-wheeler that overturned on Interstate 10 Thursday, causing the roadway to shut down for about 12 hours, may be to blame for the crash. ...

What Is Extreme Heat? Temperatures that hover 10 degrees or more above the average high temperature for the region and last for several weeks are defined as extreme heat. Humid or muggy conditions,...

HOLDEN, LA (WAFB) - Authorities believe a man whose body was found inside a truck Tuesday evening in Holden may have died from carbon monoxide poisoning while trying to stay cool in the recent high...

On the evening of July 29, 2010, at 6:51 p.m., Louisiana State Police Troop G responded to a three vehicle crash on Interstate 220 at mile post 8.7 in Bossier Parish which claimed the life of a...

LAKELAND | The SPCA of Lakeland expects to receive another 14 dogs this afternoon from the Louisiana SPCA. The dogs have been displaced by the economic effects of the oil spill off the Louisiana...

TORONTO (AP) — Canada's top court upheld Friday six murder convictions of a pig farmer accused of butchering women and feeding them to pigs in what police have referred to as the country's...

DUBLIN (AP) — The suspected remains of a 57-year-old Northern Ireland man who was abducted by the Irish Republican Army in 1981 have been unearthed in a bog in...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A draft constitution that Kenya votes on next week guarantees women the same rights as men — unless a judge in a Muslim family court decrees...

PARIS (AP) — President Nicolas Sarkozy says he wants to revoke the French citizenship of immigrants who put police officers' lives in...

Washington (CNN) -- Two officers in the troubled New Orleans Police Department have been indicted in connection with the beating death of a civilian in 2005, according to the U.S. Justice...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- BP says it has picked a charitable foundation in Louisiana to administer a $100 million fund for oil workers struggling because of a federal moratorium on deepwater...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A spokeswoman for Sandra Bullock says the actress wants her parts of a video promoting Gulf Coast restoration removed until she learns whether oil companies influenced...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Arkansas Sen. Mark Pryor's planned trip to the Gulf Coast with Nevada Sen. John Ensign to tour damage from BP's oil spill is being...

-6.38% ) said Friday it swung to a second-quarter profit of $22 million, or 16 cents a share, from a loss of $29 million, or 28 cents a share, in the year-earlier period. The building products...

WALKER, LA (WAFB) - Authorities said a man mysteriously passed out while allegedly trying to break into the home of an elderly woman late Thursday morning. According to the Livingston Parish...

Cypress Tees, LLC joined forces with America's WETLAND Foundation’s Conservation Corps to help with Louisiana’s oil-damaged marshes. By donating 30% of the proceeds from the sale of all ‘Bird...

PARIS (AP) — Two men who work for the U.S. Embassy in Paris underwent medical tests after handling a suspicious letter Friday, but the embassy said preliminary analysis suggested it was not...

PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech prime minister said Friday his government has been negotiating a plan with the United States to place a warning center in the Czech Republic as part of a reworked U.S....

ROME (AP) — After months of squabbling, Premier Silvio Berlusconi has declared a split from a long-time ally and co-founder of the governing political alliance but vowed his government is...

BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - Two men were seriously injured in a shooting Thursday night, but they are expected to recover from their wounds. According to the Baton Rouge Police Department, the victims...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An Iranian official says cigarettes smuggled into Iran have been tainted with pig blood and nuclear material as part of a Western...

The Sodertorn District Court on Friday convicted Goran Lindberg of more than a dozen sex offenses, including buying sexual favors. The 64-year-old former police commissioner has denied all charges...

MOSCOW (AP) — Forest fires continue to rage around several Russian cities and officials say at least seven people have died, including two...