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.

 Many New Orleans residents who lost homes to Hurricane Katrina could have that deja vu feeling in the future.  "USA Today" reports at least 23-hundred homes destroyed by the wind and flooding of Katrina have been rebuilt "on the cheap," skirting requirements that newly-built homes be elevated.  Larry Larson, head of the Association of State Floodplain Managers says if homeowners don't elevate, "it's the federal taxpayers who pay to fix it, time after time."  The hurricanes of 2005 caused so much damage that taxpayers were forced to pony up 20-billion dollars to bail out the federal flood insurance program. 

Homeowners themselves aren't necessarily to blame.  A 2006 report by the Homeland Security Department's inspector general found after Katrina, local officials would lower damage estimates so they'd fall just below a level requiring elevation for a rebuild.  Even homeowners who want to raise their homes are having difficulty.  Louisiana has spent less than ten-percent of the one-and-three-quarter-billion dollars the federal government gave the state to elevate homes damaged by storms three years ago.  K.C. King who lives in a previously flooded section of New Orleans says about 125 of his neighbors have rebuilt but only about a dozen raised their homes.  he says, quote, "if that's not a portrait of failure, I don't know what is."

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.