Joni Mitchell fans worried about the folk singer; Iran nuclear talks progress; Airbnb opens bookings in Cuba for Americans and more national and international stories for Thursday, April 2, 2015 ...
The body of a black man found hanging in a tree in Mississippi has been sent from a state crime lab to a funeral home, but the FBI said it will be days before autopsy results are complete ...
The Supreme Court is adding a new case to decide whether its 3-year-old ruling throwing out mandatory life in prison without parole for juveniles should apply to older cases ...
Among major oil- and gas-producing states, Texas lost 36 rigs and Louisiana 18. New Mexico declined by five, North Dakota and Ohio each dropped three and Arkansas and Kansas lost two apiece ...
State lawmakers have delayed approval of a $3.6 million casino support services for New Orleans amid concerns the city's new smoking ban will hit the state treasury ...
An offshore oilfield worker has been sentenced to 3 years' probation and a $3,000 fine in U.S. District Court in New Orleans for tampering with blowout preventer testing records ...
Regulators say only 195 bids were placed on the 41 million acres of the Gulf of Mexico up for new oil and gas leasing off of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama ...
We need to face up to how the “new New Orleans,” so celebrated by the Mayor and the self-anointed civic elite, in fact amounts to a hostile assault on African-American families and the working poor ...