NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- The Federal Emergency Management Agency has extended its deadline for providing temporary housing for evacuees of Hurricane Ike.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- The Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board says Chef John Folse of Baton Rouge has the perfect game-day recipe for LSU tailgaters and couch tigers watching their team play Saturday at Florida.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff's deputies say a 44-year-old man has been booked for allegedly beating another man to death in a dispute about a food-stamp card.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Coast Guard hearings into a collision on the Mississippi River that resulted in a major oil spill and closed the river for six days is expected to resume Thursday.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Legislative Auditor Steve Theriot says investigators have received allegations of wrongdoing in the post-hurricane ``Katrina cottage'' housing program but haven't yet determined if they have merit.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- New reports by state biologists say this year's devastating hurricane season killed millions of fish and turned many of Louisiana's green marshlands into brown and dead expanses. But overall the state's abundant ecosystem should manage to rebound.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ A New Orleans area lawmaker who suggested the state should consider paying poor women to undergo sterilization as a way to shrink welfare rolls has lost his position as vice chairman of the House health care committee.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A panel of House lawmakers accuses government scientists of failing to protect tens of thousands of Gulf Coast hurricane victims from exposure to potentially harmful fumes in FEMA trailers.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) _ A judge has refused to give the federal government total immunity from lawsuits that claim many Gulf Coast hurricane victims were exposed to potentially dangerous fumes while living in FEMA trailers.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Fifty years after digging the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet shipping passage and destroying vast wetland areas, the Army Corps of Engineers has begun to look at restoring the damage the channel caused in the swampy landscape southeast of New Orleans.

VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP) -- A hospital in Mississippi has sued Louisiana's Medicaid program for what it calls inadequate reimbursement for non-emergency patients.

LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) -- Memories of veterans who paid the ultimate sacrifice more than 30 years ago will be revived this month.

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) -- More than 120 Louisiana National Guard Soldiers will bid farewell to family and friends at a deployment ceremony on Sunday at Shreveport's Municipal Auditorium.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- U.S. Attorney Jim Letten says four southeast Louisiana women pleaded guilty this week and a fifth was sentenced for defrauding the American Red Cross after hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

DRY PRONG, La. (AP) -- A three-member panel of the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeal has heard arguments over access to records in ``Jena Six'' member Mychal Bell's criminal case.

MONROE, La. (AP) -- A video taken the day two Bastrop detectives were shot has been shown at the federal trial of Tanya ``Little Feather'' Smith.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Louisiana hurricane victims have until Thursday to apply for blue tarps to cover storm-damaged roofs.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- The Department of Health and Hospitals is offering free well-water testing in hurricane affected areas.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- The principal of Bunche Accelerated Academy for High School Preparation delights in telling the story of Tewan Leonard.

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) -- School districts nationwide are struggling to find qualified science, math, foreign language and special education teachers.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- The Army Corps of Engineers says its contractors have installed more than 6,000 ``blue roofs'' in the wake of hurricanes Gustav and Ike this month.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- State education officials say they're concerned about a school district's plan to help schools' performance by counting test scores from gifted students who live nearby but attend magnet programs and schools elsewhere.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A 30-year-old Ponchatoula woman has pleaded guilty to a mail fraud charge related to bogus applications for American Red Cross disaster financial assistance offered after hurricanes Katrina and Rita struck in 2005.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- U.S. Attorney Jim Letten says 55-year-old Dennis Finch has pleaded guilty in federal court to the adulteration of milk.