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 parents of a family moving from Florida to Louisiana ran into some big-time trouble with the law in Mississippi on Monday.  A Hancock County deputy sheriff stopped the moving truck they were traveling in on I-10 after the Highway Patrol received a report that children had been locked in the back of the vehicle.  Sure enough, the deputy found the parents in the cab of the truck and four girls, ages seven, ten, eleven and 15-years-old in the back of the truck.  The parents, John and Kimberly Leinweber of Atlantic Beach, Florida, were arrested on the spot.  Each is charged with four-counts of child endangerment.
 

The state is talking to Foster Farms about increasing their offer
for the Pilgrims Pride plant in Farmerville. In the meantime, the
Louisiana Attorney General's office is looking into possible legal
action. At issue...is Pilgrims Pride trying to drive up chicken
prices with this closure, and does that violate the state's Unfair
Trade or anti-trust laws? Trey Phillips with the A-G says since
Pilgrims Pride is in Chapter 11, why didn't they present the last
two offers to the bankruptcy court?

The son of a Ku Klux Klan leader is asking for a sanity hearing.
Shane Foster, along with his dad Raymond Foster, is charged with
second-degree murder in the death of an Oklahoma woman. Attorneys
for the younger Foster want to put up an insanity defense.
 

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.