SLIDELL, La. (AP) -- A 70-year-old Slidell man has been charged with negligent homicide in a two-vehicle crash that killed a motorcyclist.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- The Port of New Orleans has approved a 97.5 million dollar settlement with a major insurer over damages the port sustained during Hurricane Katrina.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A Harahan company has been ordered to forfeit $750,000 to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) _ Federal prosecutors say a Slidell man has pleaded guilty to crimes involving the sexual exploitation of children.

CHALMETTE, La. (AP) -- Authorities in St. Bernard Parish say a man is facing charges for swinging a 4-foot metal sword at a neighbor during a fight.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- In the wake of hurricanes Ike and Gustav, the Army Corps of Engineers has begun pushing ahead with new levee work for vulnerable New Orleans, which is built among swamps and coastal lakes.

COVINGTON, La. (AP) -- A Pearl River-area woman has been sentenced to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to vehicular homicide for running over a 34-year-old man in 2006.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- She was young, wearing feathers in her hair, silver in her ears and nose, and New Orleans police are hoping someone will be able to tell them who the murder victim they found over the weekend is.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- The New Orleans Museum of Art, the city's oldest fine arts institution, took a $6 million hit from Hurricane Katrina, was closed for six months and lost all but 15 of their 95 employees.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity says it will soon begin driving pilings for the music center planned as the heart of its Musicians Village.

BRAZILIER ISLAND, La. (AP) -- A marshy section of eastern New Orleans known as Brazilier Island will be added to the Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge, saving an important link in New Orleans' eastern flank from degradation.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Business leaders are launching a competition aimed at trying to keep 23-to-35-year-olds who came to the city to help rebuild it after Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans longterm.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- State police say a Belle Chasse woman and her mother have been arrested for stealing a winning lottery ticket.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- The Army Corps of Engineers will soon have a new commander overseeing the construction of the flood protection system for New Orleans and southeast Louisiana.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) _ St. Tammany Parish businessman Jim Harlan, who is running for the congressional seat now held by Steve Scalise, has released a five-point flood protection plan - the top point being a proposal for huge flood gates to keep hurricane storm surges from pushing the waters of Lake Pontchartrain into surrounding communities.

SLIDELL, La. (AP) -- Police say three teenage girls were arrested after a fight at Slidell High School.

UNDATED (AP) -- Authorities say two women, in separate incidents, were allegedly shot by their husbands yesterday.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A 19-year-old man was in critical condition Saturday after being shot in the head in New Orleans.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Police say an 18-year-old woman was shot and killed while sitting in a car in the Uptown section of New Orleans. A 19-year old man was also wounded in the Sunday night shooting.

MANDEVILLE, La. (AP) - State police say a 26-year-old Madisonville woman was killed in a single-vehicle accident in St. Tammany Parish.

JENNINGS, La. (AP) -- The body of an unidentified white woman turned up in rural Jefferson Davis Parish, making this the sixth body found in the last three years.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- New Orleans police have opened a murder investigation into the death of a woman whose half-naked, bludgeoned body was found late last month inside an abandoned bowling alley in eastern New Orleans.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A 2-year-old girl is in critical condition after a car crash in New Orleans sent her hurtling through a vehicle's window and onto the ground.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- An attorney who has been representing the brother and sister of Congressman William Jefferson in a criminal case is being removed from that case because of a conflict of interest.