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.

The U.S. Coast Guard has ended its search for 18-year-old Bruce
O'Krepki of Hammond, who fell overboard Sunday night from a the
Carnival Fantasy cruise ship into the Gulf, about 150 miles
southwest of Tampa, Florida. O'Krepki was on a trip to celebrate
his recent high school graduation.

A Franklin man was charged with careless operation of a vehicle and operating an off road vehicle on the roadway.  St. Mary deputies say Derrick Watson was riding on the road with a 4 wheeler and lost control of it, hitting a mailbox.  Both the driver and passenger were thrown from the vehicle and Watson was issued a summons. 
 

One person was killed in a Tuesday afternoon crash on Big Lake Road south of Lake Charles. While passing a car, the driver lost control and was struck by an oncoming car.  Driver Artem Dubovoy, 17, was killed.  Police says he Dubovoy was wearing a seatbelt when the car he was driving struck another one, but he was pronounced dead at the scene.
 

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.