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Janet Feder has built a career on unusual instrumental guitar playing. Her new album, Songs With Words, is the first to feature her singing — a bold choice that may alienate her old fans.

The NCAA says it will levy "corrective and punitive measures" against the school over the child sex abuse scandal involving Jerry Sandusky. The move comes the same day Penn State removed the statue of legendary football coach Joe Paterno from outside the football stadium.

A Houma contractor was issued a summons on a fraud charge Wednesday for allegedly taking payments for more than a year on a home improvement project…

North Oaks Health System in Hammond is expanding its emergency room and doing other improvements in a $9.3 million project.The Daily Star reports the work…

The top officer in the Louisiana National Guard is now a major general, also called a two-star general.Maj. Gen. Glenn H. Curtis was "pinned" with his new…

Authorities say a three-alarm fire that broke out early Sunday morning at the Valero refinery here did not cause any injuries or force any evacuations.The…

A 17-story hotel was imploded on Sunday after months of delay.The old Pallas Hotel on Canal Street was blown up at 8 a.m. with 400 tons of explosives,…

Actor Donald Faison could watch Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back a million times. "We spent a lot of money at the movie theaters," he says, "I want to say I saw it at the movie theaters 30 times."

Outside the movie theater in Aurora, Colo, where Friday's deadly shooting occurred, there's a makeshift memorial at the edge of a hot and dusty lot. There are hundreds of candles and flowers, American flags and signs memorializing the victims. There are also some signs around town that life is starting to return to normal.

The U.S. has taken a bit of a nosedive when it comes to winning Olympic medals in diving. Not a single American diver has stood on the medal stand in the past two games. 23-year old David Boudia hopes to change that. Sam Klemet WBAA