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West Feliciana joins school cooperative

The West Feliciana Parish School Board has agreed to join a cooperative of Louisiana school districts that hope to save money through bulk purchases of computers and software and by devising curriculum and online courses. The Vermilion Parish School Board administers the District Cooperative of Louisiana, and West Feliciana is ...

Mysterious illness kills 2 in southeast Alabama

A mysterious respiratory illness has left five people hospitalized and two dead in southeast Alabama, state health officials said Tuesday. Seven people have been admitted to hospitals with a fever, cough and shortness of breath in recent weeks, Alabama Department of Public Health spokeswoman Mary McIntyre said in a statement. ...

Legislation targets new Planned Parenthood clinic

Lawmakers are looking for ways to create roadblocks for Planned Parenthood's construction of a new facility in New Orleans that would provide abortions in addition to other health care services for women. Planned Parenthood doesn't currently operate an abortion clinic in Louisiana. Lawmakers are pushing resolutions urging various state and ...

Notes from the Legislature's regular session

The House refused Tuesday to relinquish legislative control over tuition hikes for students at Louisiana's public colleges. A proposal by Rep. Thomas Carmody, R-Shreveport, would have spelled out in the state constitution that tuition increases don't require approval of two-thirds of the House and Senate. Carmody said the campuses need ...

House overwhelmingly refuses to expand Medicaid

The Louisiana House overwhelmingly refused Tuesday to provide government-subsidized health insurance to thousands of people with the Medicaid dollars available under the federal Affordable Care Act, in a vote that appears to shelve the issue for the legislative session. Only 37 lawmakers out of the 105-member chamber supported the Medicaid ...

Doctor Urmen Desai, left, talks to reporters as Dr. Wrood M. Kassira, center, and Dr. Renaud Saint-Vil, right, look on during a news conference in Miami, Tuesday, May 21, 2013. The doctors gave an an update on the progress of Ronald Poppo, a homeless man whose face was mostly chewed off in a bizarre attack last year in Miami. The attack left Poppo blind, but the doctors say he's been working with an occupational therapist to learn how to take care of himself. The doctors say Poppo also has learned to play guitar and practices daily. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

Face-chewing victim recovering, strumming guitar

A homeless man whose face was mostly chewed off in a bizarre attack last year appeared Tuesday to be mostly at peace with his disfigurement, strumming a guitar, making jokes and thanking people for their donations to help pay for his care. Ronald Poppo doesn't like to leave his hospital ...

Law enforcement stand guard as stockholders arrive for the JPMorgan annual meeting Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Tampa, Fla. Jamie Dimon, the chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, said Tuesday that last year's $6 billion trading loss had been expensive and "extremely embarrassing" but he also asked shareholders not to fixate on the issue. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara) (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)

JPMorgan's Dimon survives shareholder referendum

Jamie Dimon, the CEO and chairman of JPMorgan Chase, easily survived a vote Tuesday that would have called on him to give up his role as chairman of the nation's largest bank. But shareholders sent a message that the bank needs better oversight by giving only narrow approval to three ...

Louisiana editorial roundup

Recent editorials from Louisiana newspapers: May 20 The Advocate, Baton Rouge, La., on panel nixes accountability: In rejecting a bill to expand public access to the records of the Governor's Office, the House and Governmental Affairs Committee early in this legislative session struck a blow against transparency in state government. ...

Suspect in FAMU hazing death files written plea

The attorney for the last of the suspects charged in the death of a Florida A&M University drum major during a hazing ritual said his client didn't have to appear for an arraignment Tuesday because he'd already entered a written not guilty plea. Darryl Cearnel was scheduled to be arraigned ...

A tornado moves past homes in Moore, Okla. on Monday, May 20, 2013. (AP Photo/Alonzo Adams)

Toby Keith says Okla. hometown is 'resilient'

Tornadoes are a part of life in Moore, Okla., something country star Toby Keith was reminded of when a deadly, devastating one leveled parts of his hometown on Monday. "It's happened so many times through my life, I've been in so many," Keith said in a phone interview Tuesday. "During ...

Florida editorial roundup

Recent editorials from Florida newspapers: May 20 The Tallahassee Democrat on Gov. Scott still prefers leaner government: The proposed 2013-2014 spending plan that lawmakers agreed upon this month, in what was viewed as a more fruitful year, faced the same fate as budgets proposed in the lean years of the ...

More women arrested for pain pills stresses jails

A Tennessee prosecutor says the burgeoning pain pill problem is filling jails beyond capacity with women. Ninth Judicial District Attorney General Russell Johnson told the Knoxville News Sentinel (http://bit.ly/13HXKj6) three of the four counties in his district have overcrowded jails, largely because of an increase in women being arrested. Johnson ...

SC Lottery

These South Carolina lotteries were drawn Tuesday: Mega Millions Estimated jackpot: $12 million Pick 3 Midday 1-0-1 (one, zero, one) Pick 4 Midday 6-2-9-9 (six, two, nine, nine) Powerball Estimated jackpot: $40 million

Criteria Recording Studios founder Emerman dies

Mack Emerman, the founder of Criteria Recording Studios where acts including Eric Clapton, James Brown and the Bee Gees made some of their most famous records, has died after a long illness. He was 89. His daughter Bebe Emerman said Tuesday that her father died of complications from pneumonia at ...

Christus to close main Shreveport hospital

Christus Health will close Sutton Children's Medical Center in Shreveport as it moves services from Christus Schumpert St. Mary Place to south Shreveport and Bossier City. Dr. William Lunn, Christus Health Shreveport-Bossier chief operating officer says the closure is part of a two-year plan to focus on outpatient services and ...

Cuts needed to align Monroe school budget

Reductions in the number of employees, possible school closures and cuts to services including food and transportation are all possibilities as Monroe City Schools superintendent-elect Brent Vidrine takes the helm of the district on June 1. Vidrine tells The New-Star (http://tnsne.ws/118EAgM ) the district will consider all expenditures to balance ...

Judge to hear request to expand Eastside

The proposal to expand Hammond Eastside Middle School to eighth grade will be discussed in federal court May 29 in New Orleans. The Daily Star reports (http://bit.ly/16IOOxJ ) attorneys in the Tangipahoa Parish School Board's desegregation case also will ask U.S. District Judge Ivan Lemelle to recognize that the school ...

Trial begins in international custody case

A trial was to begin Tuesday in federal court that will determine what country will decide the fate of two 13-year-old twin boys at the center of an international custody battle that extends from Eastern Europe to Middle Tennessee. The trial won't determine whether or not the boys should stay ...

2 Fantasy 5 players share $95,813.71 top prize

Two winners of the "Fantasy 5" game will collect $95,813.71 each, the Florida Lottery said Tuesday. The winning tickets were bought in Fort Myers and Winter Park, lottery officials reported. The 256 tickets matching four numbers won $120.50 each. Another 8,625 tickets matching three numbers won $10 each, and 83,718 ...

UT-Martin to offer nursing degree at Parsons

The University of Tennessee at Martin says it will offer a degree in nursing at its Decatur County location beginning next year. The university says its Parsons Center location will offer a Bachelor of Science in nursing in the fall of 2014. The center will have openings for up to ...

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