Iberia deputies are looking for the suspect who robbed the Baskin Robbins Ice Cream Store on East Main Street yesterday.  Police say a black male wearing a read shirt and a white cap with ECHO on it entered the store and ordered ice cream. When the clerk rang up the sale the suspect produced a knife and demanded the money from the register.  He grabbed some money and fled.  The suspect dropped the knife when he was leaving and it was recovered by investigators.  He is described as a black male, 5'9", stocky build, possibly in his mid 30s with a light beard.  Anyone who has any information about this case can call the Iberia Parish Sheriff's Office at 369-3711.
 

The state health department has announced changes in immunization requirements for students for fall 2009. Dr. Frank Welch is the immunization program director for the Department of Health & Hospitals.  He says D-H-H decided to make chicken pox and meningitis immunizations required--rather than recommended--after parents and school systems had adequate time to become familiar with the vaccinations and get used to their schedules.  Welch says parents can get a list of parish health un its by logging on to "dhh.louisiana.gov".

Detectives with the Lafayette police department made the arrest. Corporal Paul Mouton says 38-year-old Edward Paul Verdon is accused of billing services from a company he made up and charged services to a local insurance company. More than 300-thousand dollars in payment were made to the bogus company since 2007.
 

The wife of a  Keithville man found murdered in his home Sunday has been arrested for hiring someone to kill her husband.

State Wildlife and Fisheries Secretary Robert Barham reopens part of the Mississippi River delta in Plaquemines Parish to recreational fishing.

First Lady Supriya Jindal was in Shreveport and Alexandria today to rally support for an effort to assist those affected by the Gulf oil spill crisis.

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.