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French Quarter becomes a stage for music fest
Jazz guitarist Raphael Bas says French Quarter Festival is as close as it gets in the U.S. to the music festival he grew up attending with his family ...
Auriemma looks for eighth national championship
Geno Auriemma has never lost an NCAA championship game. Of course, his UConn Huskies haven't had to face a team like upstart Louisville, which is ...
Louisville women join men with shot at NCAA title
Louisville's basketball teams have been pulling for each other during both NCAA tournaments, sweating through the nail biters, cheering the wins.
UConn, Louisville to meet for women's NCAA title
Connecticut beat Louisville comfortably back in January and didn't even have star Breanna Stewart on the floor at the time. That doesn't mean the ...
Rapper Rick Ross explains lyrics on 'U.O.E.N.O.'
Rapper Rick Ross says critics have misinterpreted his lyrics on Rocko's "U.O.E.N.O" after uproar from women's advocacy groups. Ross raps about giving ...
Pat Riley to Danny Ainge: Shut up
Miami Heat President Pat Riley has added another chapter to his rivalry with the Boston Celtics. After LeBron James complained about calls and Boston ...
Hornets snap Nuggets' 15-game win streak
Even Brian Roberts couldn't believe the performance he delivered to help end Denver's 15-game winning streak. Starting for only the second time, the ...
Chef John Besh hosts new cooking show at La. home
John Besh has cooked for thousands in his restaurants. He has cooked for millions on TV. But he recently realized he'd lost sight of cooking for the ...
Appeals court rules for La. monks in casket fight
Benedictine monks may keep selling plain, low-cost caskets from their monastery outside New Orleans, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday, finding ...
Baylor, ND, UConn, Stanford top NCAA women's seeds
If that NCAA women's tournament bracket looks familiar, it should. Baylor, Connecticut, Notre Dame and Stanford all earned No. 1 seeds when the field ...
La. pipeline blaze could burn until Thursday
A fire raging in a coastal Louisiana bayou where a tugboat struck a gas pipeline appeared to have diminished Wednesday night, but is far from ...
Chavez death: Venezuelans in US ready for election
Ramon Perez traveled 16 hours by bus from Miami to New Orleans to vote last October in a Venezuelan presidential election won by Hugo Chavez.
Blaze erupts after tug hits pipeline on La. bayou
A tug boat pushing an oil barge struck a gas pipeline in a bayou south of New Orleans on Tuesday night, igniting a blaze that burned for hours and ...
Studies tie stress from storms, war to heart risks
Stress does bad things to the heart. New studies have found higher rates of cardiac problems in veterans with PTSD, New Orleans residents six years ...
Chavez's try to be savior of poor floundered in US
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez offered to send thousands of soldiers, firefighters and volunteers to help ...
Bryant, Lakers roar back against Hornets, 108-102
No matter how bad this season may look by the Lakers' lofty standards, it should be obvious by now that Kobe Bryant isn't remotely close to giving up.
Power failure blamed in New Orleans water issues
Taps in New Orleans briefly went dry Sunday after a boiler's heating flame went out of control in the immense steam generator that powers pumps for ...
POPE LIVE: End of a papacy, dawn of a retirement
"Pope Live" follows the events of the final day of Pope Benedict XVI's papacy as seen by journalists from The Associated Press around the world.
BP executive testifies at Gulf oil spill trial
A ranking BP executive testified Tuesday that the London-based oil giant and its contractors share the responsibility for preventing blowouts like the ...
1st witness testifies in Gulf oil spill trial
BP failed to implement a new safety plan on the ill-fated Deepwater Horizon drilling rig even though the company realized a blowout in the Gulf of ...
CEO Paul McIlhenny of Tabasco sauce company dies
Paul C.P. McIlhenny, chief executive and chairman of the board of the McIlhenny Co. that makes the trademarked line of Tabasco hot pepper sauces sold ...
'The Power of Few' makes limited-release debut
Comedian and actor Anthony Anderson sheds his funnyman persona to play a tattoo-faced, gun-wielding thug in "The Power of Few," an independent ...
Ex-New Orleans mayor pleads not guilty to bribery
Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges he accepted more than $200,000 in bribes plus free trips and other ...
Cruise passengers return home, feds probe fire
Passengers of the Carnival Triumph tried to put the memories of their nightmarish cruise behind them Friday, boarding buses and planes for home after ...
Cruise passengers became comrades on trip home
When their cruise ship lost power, passengers aboard the Carnival Triumph could have been selfish and looked out only for themselves and their loved ...