NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A regional levee authority in Louisiana asks Congress to set up a commission to investigate levee failures during Hurricane Katrina - and the entire Mississippi River system.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- House Speaker Jim Tucker has made it clear that he believes Governor Bobby Jindal should honor a pledge not to veto a bill that doubles legislators' base pay.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- The House has given final legislative approval to one of Governor Bobby Jindal's major legislative goals _ a bill to send hundreds of low- and moderate- income students in New Orleans to private schools at public expense.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- As Congress moves to cut 73 million dollars in housing aid for disabled Hurricane Katrina victims from the same bill that provides 350 million to help Iraqi refugees, Governor Bobby Jindal has joined efforts to salvage the Katrina measure.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) --A new reports finds girls and boys are being sold for sex in Baton Rouge and New Orleans, even though no one yet has been charged in Louisiana under federal or state sex-trafficking laws.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- A Senate panel restored millions of dollars in education and health care spending stripped from next year's budget bill by the House. Then, the committee approved the $30 billion spending plan and sent it to the full Senate for debate.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A Louisiana lawmaker is asking a federal judge to order separate trials for him and the woman he allegedly helped launder money for her illegal insurance business.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- After posting a down month in April, Louisiana's state-licensed casinos recorded a jump of more than 10 percent in their winnings from gamblers in May.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- The Louisiana Senate has given final legislative approval to a proposal that would let science teachers change how they teach topics like evolution, cloning and global warming in public schools.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- The latest financial disclosure reports that members of Congress are required to file each year make clear that both of Louisiana's U.S. Senators have more to fall back on than their annual $165,200 salary.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- The House's budget committee refused to give state Superintendent of Education Paul Pastorek the authority he sought to sidestep public bid requirements for educational consulting contracts.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- The state Senate is getting its first chance to make changes to next year's 30 billion dollar budget proposal -- after weeks of hearings about what's in and what's out.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- The state health department says bacteria levels are too high for swimming at almost every Louisiana beach.

HACKBERRY, La. (AP) -- Commercial seafood workers who were affected by the 2005 hurricanes may qualify for $100,000 in loans or grants from the state Department of Economic Development.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Though it took two votes to get through the Louisiana House, a bill to increase public college tuition over four years easily sped through a state Senate panel today.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- A Senate committee today approved measures that propose major changes at New Orleans' two big transport hubs: its airport and port.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- The House plans to debate a bill to triple lawmakers' pay on Friday, and Louisiana residents are lighting up the airwaves and filling newspaper pages with complaints about the idea.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- The House has given final legislative passage to a bill that would ban government funding for what is sometimes called ``therapeutic cloning.''

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- The House has given final legislative passage to a bill that would ban government funding for what is sometimes called ``therapeutic cloning.''

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- U.S. Senator David Vitter has introduced a bill that would require all states to collect DNA samples from convicted felons.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- U.S. Senator David Vitter has introduced a bill that would require all states to collect DNA samples from convicted felons.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Louisiana is one of 12 sites selected by the federal health department to participate in a Medicare pilot program that gives incentive payments to doctors who use electronic health records.