July 29, 2008 -
This past weekend, Louisiana Environmental Action Network technical supervisor Wilma Subra toured the banks of the Mississippi River through Orleans, St. Bernard and Plaquemines parishes to witness firsthand the effects of last week's devastating oil spill.
July 28, 2008 -
Keith Hempstead, an attorney in Durham, N.C., has dropped the lawsuit he filed against the Raleigh News & Observer for breach of contract, the paper reports. He filed the suit when paper owner McClatchy Co.
July 28, 2008 -
A man with a shotgun entered a church Sunday and opened fire on congregants during a children's play at Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville, Tenn.
July 28, 2008 -
In states across the South, utility companies are pushing ahead with plans to construct a new kind of nuclear reactor. Designed by Westinghouse Electric Co., the AP1000 is to date but an idea on paper, having never been tested with a demonstration model in the real world.
July 26, 2008 -
The Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper and Atchafalaya Basinkeeper patrolled the air yesterday to check on the section of the Mississippi River affected by Wednesday's oil spill.
July 25, 2008 -
New Orleans City Business reports that New Orleans District Attorney Keva Landrum-Johnson is filling up Louisiana's prisons with a new policy charging minor marijuana offenders with felonies if they have prior convictions.
July 25, 2008 -
This week, Facing South's Book Fridays brings you a selection of online photo essays.