Louisiana said homeowners should be warned about the fire risk associated with the Chinese-made product.A large quantity of Chinese drywall was imported during the housing boom and after a string of...

VIENNA (AP) — Austria's renowned Spanish Riding School has canceled performances because some of its elegant white Lipizzaner stallions have caught a cold. Chief Financial Officer Erwin...

East Tennessee State ."Hopefully, we're this good," Calipari said. "I'm not sure if we are, but we'll see if we can keep it going."That result had spectators falling asleep in their seats Thursday...

MOSCOW (AP) — The so-called Quartet of Middle East mediators is calling on Israel to freeze all settlement activities and denouncing Israel's aim to build new housing in East Jerusalem. U.N....

Members of Ladies in White, a group of female dissidents, carrying flowers, take part in a march marking the anniversary of a major government crackdown on dissent, in Havana, Thursday, March 18,...

DENHAM SPRINGS, LA (WAFB) - A 17-year-old girl is dead and the driver of the car she was in faces vehicular homicide charges after a crash near Denham Springs Thursday night. Louisiana State Police...

Carmelo Anthony recorded 26 points and a career-high 18 rebounds to propel the Denver Nuggets past the New Orleans Hornets 93-80 on Thursday for their eighth win in nine games. The Nuggets (47-22)...

Texas .Smith's pull-up jumper from about 17 feet out with 1.3 seconds remaining in overtime gave ninth-seeded Wake Forest an 81-80 win over the eighth-seeded Longhorns in the first round of...

(AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)Kentucky guard DeMarcus Cousins celebrates on the bench during an NCAA college basketball game against East Tennessee State in New Orleans, Thursday, March 18, 2010....

Entering Thursday, Carmelo Anthony had played exactly 500 career games, and fans had seen it all in the Melo 500 — a bevy of buzzer beaters, improbable dunks, savvy passes and even, yes, some...

Denver, CO (Sports Network) - Carmelo Anthony scored 26 points and pulled down a career-best 18 rebounds as Denver gained a big halftime lead and topped New Orleans, 93-80, to climb up a notch in the...

LAFAYETTE — City-Parish Council Chairman Jay Castille is proposing that the power council members have over Lafayette’s public utility should be based on how many utility customers live...

LAFAYETTE — The next step in getting the school district’s newest high school off the ground will be finding students to fill its classrooms. The new high school, which will focus on...

LAFAYETTE — The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s investigation into the New Iberia Research Center is still pending, a USDA spokesman said Thursday. In March 2009, the Humane Society of...

Police arrest suspect in shooting attempt LAFAYETTE — Authorities have arrested a 31-year-old Lafayette man for allegedly trying to shoot another man early Tuesday. Thurman Travis Thibodeaux,...

Protester Anthony Battaglia, of First Baptist Church in Gonzales, discusses God and homosexuality from a spiritual point of view Thursday with several hundred people who gathered at Dutchtown High...

OPELOUSAS — The city of Eunice is being offered $102,000 by the St. Landry Parish Council to settle a decades-old civil lawsuit for alleged costs of housing state prisoners in the municipal...

The first “Fashion is Unforgettable” charity fashion show and silent auction is set 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Mayon’s, 37092 Miller St., Prairieville. Katie Haydel, co-chairwoman of...

Emeka Okafor . So, who was left to clean up the glass? 'Melo. Anthony pulled down a career-best 18 rebounds to go with his 26 points in Denver's 93-80 win over...

DENHAM SPRINGS- At approximately 9:00 pm, March 18, 2010, Louisiana State Police Troop A investigated a two-vehicle crash that resulted in the death of 17-year old female. The crash occurred on LA...

Denver Nuggets guard Arron Afflalo (6) worked around New Orleans Hornets guard Morris Peterson (24) in the first half Thursday night. The Denver Nuggets hosted the New Orleans Hornets at the Pepsi...

(03-17) 23:29 PDT -- Add one more win to Don Nelson's career total, this one compliments of the Development League. Led by Anthony Tolliver, Reggie Williams and Chris Hunter, the Warriors erased a...

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemalan human rights groups expressed outrage Thursday over a judge's decision to release a former army colonel convicted of killing a prominent Roman Catholic bishop...

Nuggets guard Chauncey Billups looks to pass the ball as Hornets guard Darren Collison defends in the first quarter Thursday night in Denver. Billups scored 10...

New Orleans Hornets 93-80 Thursday night. Despite allowing a late run, it was another in a long line of fine performances by the Nuggets while the team awaits the return of defensive...

DENHAM SPRINGS, LA (WAFB) - A car crashed into a house on Corby Drive in Denham Springs, injuring a child. Deputies said the driver backed out of the house and drove off after the accident. They...

ALICE — Alice was within a goal of District 59-4A champion Flour Bluff for the first 35 minutes of Thursday night’s Class 4A bi-district playoff match. That was before midfielder Kaitlyn...

CORPUS CHRISTI — ALICE Flour Bluff’s boys soccer team grabbed the lead on District 60-4A champion Laredo LBJ Thursday night. Yet it was the quick-strike Wolves taking a lead into the half...

BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - A legislative committee heard pros and cons Thursday on whether Citizens Insurance, the insurance company of last resort for many Louisianians, should be wiped out. "If we...

BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - An arrest was made Thursday in the 2007 murders of Drexel Swayzer and Jamie Williams. West Baton Rouge deputies arrested David L. Williams as he was being released from...

Scott Drew 's postgame locker room chat with his team dragged on longer than usual before he emerged - behind schedule - to discuss as big a victory as many Bears fans can remember."Sorry I'm late....

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — It's a dirty job, and now the government's gonna do it. A mayor loyal to President Hugo Chavez said Thursday that his office will take over two waste-collection...

GEISMAR, LA, (WAFB) - Dutchtown High is putting on a performance of "The Laramie Project" Thursday night and that small production has drawn the spotlight on south Louisiana. The play is about the...

PRAIRIEVILLE, LA (WAFB) - The public's help is needed to find a missing Prairieville man with Alzheimer's. Pearlie Broussard, 87, was last seen leaving his home to go to his barber shop in...

The Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday that it will study potential human health and water quality threats from an oil and natural gas drilling technique that injects massive amounts of...

Teresa Weatherspoon still has her game face - that look of intense concentration, the bit of belligerence, the slight swagger.Now she's back where she honed the flash and brilliance that made her...

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says it will study potential human health and water quality threats from an oil and natural gas drilling technique that injects massive amounts of water, sand and...

Luke Harangody 's putback wasn't enough for sixth-seeded Notre Dame on Thursday. Old Dominion held on for a 51-50 victory in the first round of the South Regional, its first NCAA tournament win since...

BOSTON (AP) -- The nation's oceans chief on Thursday detailed reforms on the ways fishermen are policed, including a proposal to force her agency to better justify penalties against...

BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - Police are looking for a man who robbed a Florida Blvd. business on Thursday afternoon. The suspect walked into the Check Into Cash in the 9200 block of Florida shortly...

Convergys Corp. plans to hire 200 people at its Baton Rouge call center.The Cincinati-based company said Thursday that the additional jobs would boost the center's employment to 650. The center...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Opposition leaders in this South American country threatened Thursday to boycott the first municipal elections in 16 years over a plan to give a government-dominated...