The Covington Police department needs your help in finding David K. Repath who walked away from a drug rehab program, violated his parole, and has warrents for his arrenst in stealing checks from Faith Bible Church.

LAPLACE, La. (AP) -- The LSU AgCenter is asking southeast Louisiana residents who have citrus trees to be on the lookout for a pest that can carry a disease that kills the trees.

U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu says a small-scale cellulosic biorefinery in Jennings will get up to $40 million in federal funding over the next five years.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Groundbreaking is scheduled for Thursday for one of five public schools placed on a fast-track construction schedule in New Orleans.

LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) -- A 63year-old Lafayette man will stand trial on charges that he raped a family member more than 40 years ago.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- New Orleans Police are investigating a shooting death in the city's Gentilly neighborhood.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- New child support laws passed this year by the Louisiana Legislature could mean an increase in the financial commitment paying parents make to their children.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Starting August 15th, possessing or wearing body armor such as bulletproof vests on school grounds, on school buses, at off-campus events and within 1,000 feet of a campus or in a firearms free zone will be illegal.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- New Orleans has its own Running of the Bulls. But the horned creatures chasing white-clad men through narrow streets are aggressively female.

THIBODAUX, La. (AP) -- Police say in recently filed court records that a Lafourche Parish woman facing first-degree murder charges in the deaths of her two young children confessed to the stabbings last year in her hospital room as she recovered from a self-inflicted knife wound.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Frank ``Blackie'' Campo, a marina owner who was a trusted source of fishing information in St. Bernard Parish for decades, has died at age 90.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- The crowd of challengers taking on Louisiana Congressman William Jefferson is growing.

JENA, La. (AP) -- Jesse Ray Beard, one of the ``Jena Six'' defendants, is headed to New York after state District Court Judge Tom Yeager released him from house arrest for the summer.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- The U.S. Census Bureau reports that New Orleans was the fastest-growing large city in the nation last year. Even so, its population is still about half what it was before Hurricane Katrina.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Two candidates have signed up to challenge embattled Congressman William Jefferson, as the New Orleans Democrat again runs for re-election under a cloud of federal bribery allegations.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A congressional report released today finds manufacturers knew there were high levels of formaldehyde in the trailers provided to Hurricane Katrina victims, but sold them to the government anyway.

EDGARD, La. (AP) -- The state Supreme Court has named retired state Judge Anne Lennan Simon of New Iberia to preside over a case involving several Garyville area industries asking to be excluded from the proposed new town of Garyville.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Governor Bobby Jindal has signed into law legislation that would ban government funding in Louisiana for what is sometimes called ``therapeutic cloning.''

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Former Louisiana Supreme Court Justice Revius Ortique Jr. has died of complications from a stroke. He was 84.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- A $110 million spending plan packed with projects pushed by the Jindal administration has been approved by the House budget committee.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Louisiana is among seven states expected to have the most active hiring for financial business positions this summer.