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Peggy Ivie teaches merengue, waltz and East Coast swing at the Tennessee School for the Blind.

More than a half-century after a German drugmaker took thalidomide off the market because of birth defects, the company said it was sorry. The occasion was the dedication of a memorial to the victims near the company's headquarters. The sculpture features a girl with malformed feet and no arms.

Michigan officials and pig farmers are locked in an escalating debate over new rules that make wild boars illegal in the state. The state maintains that the animals can destroy natural ecosystems, but some farmers say that the rules will destroy their livelihoods.

The Coast Guard rescued two people and their cat in LaPlace.A Coast Guard spokesman said Murry Daniels and his wife were hoisted aboard a helicopter…

Plaquemines Parish officials say residents who live north of the Phillips66 Refinery near Belle Chasse can return home.Officials say there are no…

Lafourche Parish officials say water began seeping over a levee, but they had the situation under control by using sandbags.Officials say no homes are in…

Drivers patrolled streets looking for gas and faced long waits at stations that had power to pump Friday in the aftermath of Hurricane Isaac.Some stations…

The superintendent of the Louisiana State Police says there will be few state troopers helping with security and traffic at the LSU football game…

Helping Hats, run by a 13-year-old, raises money for charities in the community.

The state Department of Transportation and Development says the Plaquemine/Sunshine ferry landing has returned to service.The ferry was closed Tuesday…