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Department of Health and Hospitals Secretary Bruce Greenstein says he expects to announce by Friday how he'll divvy up $859 million in cuts to Louisiana's…

First Lady Michelle Obama sat down with a group of Latina bloggers yesterday as the Obama campaign continues its outreach to the Hispanic community. The ladies in the Beauty Shop take up that topic and they also discuss teens and birth control. Guest host Maria Hinojosa checks in with columnist Mary Kate Cary, Democratic strategist Maria Cardona and bloggers Viviana Hurtado and Danielle Belton.

A massive influence on the likes of Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger, the author of "This Land Is Your Land" — and thousands of other songs — remains an inspiration to musicians nearly 45 years after his death.

Poverty among single mothers is an astounding 66 percent in Reading, Pa., where Jennifer Stepp is raising three children by herself. To survive, she relies on a safety net of support.

Snoballs stands are such a part of the New Orleans scene it’s hard to imagine a time before they were commonplace, but really that time was not so long…

In what is becoming an annual ritual, Gov. Bobby Jindal has again issued a partial hiring freeze on executive branch agencies in state government.The…

Maricopa County, Ariz., which for years has been ground zero in the debate over immigration, is now the center of an interesting trend. Undocumented immigrants inspired by the state's tough immigration law are among those mobilizing Latino citizens to vote in the November presidential election.

We reported on two cities plagued with financial woe; readers made recommendations.

Headlines about war and famine dominate much of the news out of Africa, but six out of the ten fastest growing economies in the world are there. That growth is affecting the continent's culture, which has become increasingly globalized with Internet cafes, international business and technology.

Officials from the Louisiana Department of Economic Development say the only action they could take against two companies that received about $935,000 in…