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This undated photo courtesy of Marianites of Holy Cross, shows from left, Sister Suellen Tennyson, with Sister Pascaline Tougma, a midwife from Burkina Faso, and Sister Pauline Drouin, a nurse from Lake Magantic in Canada. Sister Suellen Tennyson was taken from her bed in Yalgo, Burkina Faso, late Monday, April 4, 2022 , Sister Ann Lacour, U.S. congregational leader for the Marianites of Holy Cross in Covington, Louisiana, told The Associated Press. (Courtesy of Marianites of Holy Cross via AP)

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Sister: Gunmen took 83-year-old nun from bed in Burkina Faso
By JANET MCCONNAUGHEY - Associated Press
Wed,04/06/22-1:02PM , 129 Reads
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Ten gunmen kidnapped an 83-year-old American nun from her bed in the west African nation of Burkina Faso and destroyed almost everything in the house where she lived, but left four other w
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This undated photo from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows little brown bats with the fuzzy white patches of fungus typical of white nose syndrome, which affects at least 12 species nationwide. Louisiana is now among 41 states where the fungus has been found on bats, though the disease has not shown up in the state. (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via AP)

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Fungus that causes fatal bat disease found in Louisiana
By JANET MCCONNAUGHEY - Associated Press
Tue,04/05/22-11:23AM , 164 Reads
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A fungus that has killed millions of bats nationwide has been found in Louisiana, but no bats in the state have been sickened by it so far.
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Purple Louisiana iris and pink and white African crinum lilies bloom on Saturday, April 2, 2022, in the Chalmette, La., unit of the Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve. Nearly 60 years ago, a historic Black community founded as a home for newly freed slaves was demolished to expand a national park commemorating the Battle of New Orleans and Civil War casualties. Now park rangers and iris enthusiasts believe they may have found a botanical reminder _ Louisiana iris and African lilies that the village's residents may have planted. (AP Photo/Janet McConnaughey)

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National park battlefield irises may mark razed Black homes
By JANET MCCONNAUGHEY - Associated Press
Sat,04/02/22-7:52AM , 173 Reads
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Nearly 60 years ago, a historic Black community founded as a home for newly freed slaves was demolished to expand a national park commemorating the Battle of New Orleans and Civil War casualties.
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Roux, a baby orangutan born on Christmas Eve, 2021, grips assistant curator of primates Kelsey Forbes' fingers as she lifts him to strenthen his grip and arm muscles on Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022, at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans. Staffers showed some of the "baby boot camp" exercises used to strengthen Roux so he can be reunited with his mother and then join the zoo's other orangutans. (AP Photo/Janet McConnaughey)

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'Baby boot camp' exercises critically endangered orangutan
By JANET MCCONNAUGHEY - Associated Press
Thu,02/24/22-3:13PM , 137 Reads
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The 2-month-old critically endangered orangutan, still so tiny that infant-sized diapers hung loosely in front of his belly, clung tightly to a caretaker’s fingers as she lifted him gently from
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