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.

A Baton Rouge man is facing charges that include negligent homicide in the death of a bicycle rider. Allen Ketelsen's pickup ran into the rear of a bicycle killing a New Orleans man. Ketelsen was booked into the Parish Jail.

High gas prices are continuing to put a stranglehold on the pocketbooks of Louisiana motorists. Triple-A reports the statewide average price of unleaded regular is up another penny today to just shy of three-94 a gallon, a new record high. Diesel is right at four-70 a gallon, also an all-time high. Nationwide, the average price of regular has now climbed to a record high price of four-dollars-five-cents.

44-year-old Darryl Whittington of Zachary has been booked on charges stemming from a deadly hit-and-run accident late Friday night in Baton Rouge. Whittington's pickup, was found abandoned Saturday with damage matching that sustained by the car that struck and killed a St. Francisville woman.

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.