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.

New Orleans Police Superintendent Warren Riley says an investigation
has revealed that about 200-thousand dollars in cash has been stolen
from the police department's evidence and property room. Riley says
the cash was in envelopes that contained money seized in connection
with several criminal cases. He says suspects have been identified.
 

General Motors now announces its plant in Shreveport will be closed by mid-2012.  Shreveport Mayor Cedric Glover says he's optimistic that jobs at the plant will be saved somehow.  Northwest Louisiana officials are adding up the economic toll of GM's coming closure of the Shreveport truck plant. They say it's a loss of over 7-million dollars in tax revenue, along with the hundred-million dollar payroll. Now, this facility turns out Hummer H-3 and H-3T SUV's and GMC Canyon and Chevrolet Colorado pickups. Hummer is being bought by Chinese manufacturer Thengzhong, and hasn't committed to having the   H-3 and H-3T made at the Shreveport facility beyond 2010.
 

A Mobile home fire in Stonewall, south of Shreveport, has claimed
the life of a 21-year-old mother and her 6 year old daughter. De
Soto Parish deputies believe smoke inhalation killed them. A
35-year-old man has been hospitalized, while 3 others living there
escaped unharmed. The home burned to the ground.

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.