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In this undated photo provided by the Audubon Nature Institute, Arnold, right, and Kali, two of three African lions diagnosed with COVID-19, are shown before they came down with coughs and runny noses. The three infected African lions are doing well and have normal appetites. The Audubon Zoo said in a news release Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2021. Asani, Arnold and Kali were tested after they came down with coughs and nasal discharges, and the other three are now being tested, the statement said. (Audubon Nature Institute via AP)

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Louisiana COVID deaths near 15K; 3 of 6 zoo lions infected
By JANET MCCONNAUGHEY - Associated Press
Wed,12/29/21-4:12PM , 142 Reads
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana’s COVID-19 death toll edged toward 15,000 on Wednesday, and the zoo in New Orleans said half of its lions had been diagnosed with the disease.
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In this image taken by doctoral student Heru Handika and provided by Louisiana State University, shows a field camp from which scientists and students worked to collect shrews in April 2018 on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. A decade of trips to a dozen mountain and two lowland areas on the island enabled the group to identify 14 newly recognized species of shrews in one genus on the island, tripling the previously known total. (Heru Handika/Louisiana State University via AP)

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Louisiana researchers ID 14 new shrew species on Sulawesi
By JANET MCCONNAUGHEY - Associated Press
Sun,12/26/21-9:06AM , 116 Reads
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana researchers have identified 14 new species of shrews on an Indonesian island where seven in that genus were previously known.
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$475M settlement proposed in longest-running US oil spill
By JANET MCCONNAUGHEY - Associated Press
Wed,12/22/21-2:20PM , 141 Reads
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A New Orleans-based oil company has agreed to turn over a $432 million cleanup trust fund and pay an additional $43 million to settle a federal lawsuit over cleaning up abandoned wells leaking since 2004,
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Judge: Grain terminal zoning suit to proceed; no ruling now
By JANET MCCONNAUGHEY - Associated Press
Thu,12/16/21-12:59PM , 106 Reads
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Opponents of a $400 million grain terminal planned in a small Louisiana community may continue their challenge to zoning they contend was granted decades ago to further a corrupt plot, a state
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