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) -- A federal appeals court has upheld dismissal of a lawsuit filed by a teacher who claims she lost her job because school officials objected to her adult-oriented art.

Louisiana lawmakers had until Tuesday to submit forms that will keep their salaries at the current rates, if a pay raise becomes law. A look at who's refusing the pay raise and who opposed the pay raise bill:

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.

LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) -- The Lafayette Parish school system has received a federal grant aimed at helping students prepare for college and other post-secondary education.

SLIDELL, La. (AP) -- Police say two teenagers were arrested after snatching kittens from the Slidell animal shelter.

LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) -- Lafayette Police continue their search for 25-year-old Benjamin Aaron Rhodes, who is wanted for the second-degree murder of his stepfather, 44-year-old John T. Polk.

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.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A newspaper says contractors figure the 72-mile levee system proposed to protect the Houma area is likely to cost at least $10.7 billion. That is seven times what a state official says Congress has OK'd.

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.

MANDEVILLE, La. (AP) -- One day this week, the water will run red in Bayou Cane.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- The head of the state-run Recovery School District is set to present a status report to the public Monday.

LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) -- People living in a rural area south of Lake Charles are trying to stop the reopening of a landfill once used for Hurricane Rita debris.

LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) -- Because of unfinished pretrial business, the trial of Dr. Peter LaFuria will not begin as scheduled today.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- The Louisiana House has begun debate on a bill to triple the pay of state lawmakers.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A New Orleans woman was charged in a two-count federal indictment of theft and wire fraud in connection with her application for federal funds under the state's Road Home hurricane recovery program, U. S. Attorney Jim Letten announced Friday.