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Animal group: Army base escalates wild horse roundups
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Animal rights advocates want a federal court to make an Army base in western Louisiana stop rounding up hundreds of feral horses on land it owns or uses. Fort Polk began escalating efforts in November, and some captured horses a...
Mississippi arboretum looking for milkweed hunter-growers
Mississippi State University's arboretum is looking for gardeners who know where milkweed's growing wild and want to help monarch butterflies. Crosby Arboretum director Pat Drackett hopes gardeners around Mississippi will both experiment with seed...
Feral hog poison field tests in Texas, Alabama in 2018
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Feral swine do more than $1.5 billion a year in damage around the country, and scientists are taking what could be a big step toward controlling them. They are field-testing poison baits made from a preservative that's used to c...
Baby bongo born, more likely soon at Species Survival Center
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A bouncing baby bongo has been born in New Orleans. The 46-pound female is from a highly endangered antelope subspecies. It's the first calf conceived at the Species Survival Center created by the Audubon Nature Institute and San D...
Fats Domino stirred New Orleans flavor into rock 'n' roll
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — In appearance, Fats Domino wasn't a typical teen idol. He stood 5-feet-5 and weighed more than 200 pounds, with a wide, boyish smile and a haircut as flat as an album cover. But Domino sold more than 110 million records, with h...
Fats Domino dies at 89; gave rock music a New Orleans flavor
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Fats Domino, the amiable rock 'n' roll pioneer whose steady, pounding piano and easy baritone helped change popular music while honoring the traditions of the Crescent City, has died. He was 89. Mark Bone, chief investigator with t...
Hurricane Nate makes landfall at mouth of Mississippi River
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Hurricane Nate came ashore a sparsely populated area at the mouth of the Mississippi River on Saturday and pelted the central Gulf Coast with wind and rain as the fast-moving storm headed toward the Mississippi coast, where it w...
Invasive stink bugs plaguing soybean farmers in 3 states
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Deep South's nastiest soybean pest is marching north, and Mississippi and Arkansas are facing their worst invasion ever. Two warm winters followed by this year's warm spring have let invasive red-banded stinkbugs spread well b...
1 beetle may have brought lethal tree disease now across SE
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A lone female fungus-farming beetle inadvertently imported to Georgia may have been the source of a disease that has killed some 300 million redbay trees and threatens Florida's avocado groves, researchers from Mississippi and F...
Bad beasts, good treats: Feral hog slaughterhouse takes off
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — In a region that takes food seriously, feral hogs are despised as destructive, but their rich, dark meat is winning fans among Louisiana chefs. A small slaughterhouse is butchering the wild pigs , which cause the state $76 m...
What are the odds? Mom, dad, son all share a birthday
Luke and Hillary Gardner never have a problem remembering each other's birthday. After all, the husband and wife were born the same day. And so was their son, 27 years later this past December. The odds of that happening are about one in 133,000, sta...
Deep South drought kills crops, threatens herds, dries lakes
ATLANTA (AP) â” Six months into a deepening drought, the weather is killing crops, threatening cattle and sinking lakes to their lowest levels in years across much of the South. The very worst conditions â” what forecasters call "except...
ACLU: Students file complaints on right to sit during pledge
NEW ORLEANS (AP, posted Sept. 15, 2016) — Two students at separate schools have filed complaints with the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana saying they were told they would be punished for sitting during the Pledge of Allegiance, an act p...
