Authorities in Iberia Parish and LA State Police are looking for Paul Stanley Collins Jr. who is accused of shooting to death his estranged wife - the mother of his two children.

The government is doling out $20-million to farmers in eight states, including Louisiana, to create habitats for migratory birds whose usual Gulf wintering spots may be fouled by the massive BP oil spill.

Louisiana is entering the grip of a summer heat wave for the weekend and into next week.

(Colorado Springs, CO)  --  New Orleans is ranked number one in income growth from 1983 to 2008.  The city ranked first in a bizjournals study of income growth in the country's 100 largest cities over the last 25 years.  Rankings were based on comparisons of growth among the 100 cities over 25 different time spans all ending in 2008 and ranging from a 25-year span to a one-year span, so results could be weighted toward recent growth.   The study noted rapid income growth in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina in 2005.  Coming in last was Provo, Utah.
 

(Baton Rouge, LA)  --  The 2009 NCAA Champion LSU baseball team is in Washington, DC today to take a tour of the city and its historic landmarks.  Head coach Paul Mainieri says full details of the tour had not been revealed before the team was to fly to the nation's capital, but White House officials say a scheduling conflict will prevent the team from meeting with President Obama.  This will be the first time an LSU baseball team has been invited to Washington since the 1991 College World Series champs received an invitation.  This will also be the fifth LSU sports team to visit Washington this decade.

(Covington, LA)  --  A Folsom-area man convicted of killing another man with a hammer has been sentenced to life behind bars.  Forty-two-year-old Edward McCray was found guilty in August of killing 35-year-old Mallery McGee.  McCray struck McGee four times in the head with a metal hammer on August 7th, 2005.  Witnesses testified that McCray took the victim's wallet and stash of crack cocaine, then removed his clothes.  Second-degree murder carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison.

Here's a look at stories making national news.

A new national poll finds former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney is currently the Republican with the chance of defeating President Obama in 2012. 

Arizona has filed an appeal in the federal lawsuit which resulted in an injunction against portions of the state's new immigration law.