Police have identified the store clerk shot during an early morning robbery.

A soldier stationed at Fort Polk has been killed in Iraq, the Pentagon reports.

NEW ORLEANS -- Energy companies have put up 423 bids for Wednesday's sale of offshore leases in the western Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Texas.

Louisiana's state-licensed casinos won just over $232 million last month, taking advantage of the Fourth of July weekend in one of the industry's typically big months.

Students will train in Navarro College's Oil and Gas Technology program.

Shreveport police are working reports of a carjacking in the Lakeside neighborhood. It happened about 9 a.m. on Ashton Street. A woman told police she'd given someone a ride when a male opened her car door and jumped inside of the vehicle. The woman reportedly got out of the vehicle and called police. When she returned to the car the man punched her in the face and drove off in the vehicle, according to police. A short time later, officers found the man and the vehicle in the 1600 block of Looney Street. The investigation into the carjacking continues.

A Bossier City couple was arrested Monday for domestic abuse battery, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Sophomore Deanna Wallace, 18, and junior John Kay, 20, are the alternate delegates for this area and will attend the Republican National Convention starting Sept. 1 in Minneapolis-St. Paul , Minn.

BATON ROUGE -- Tests are confirming the discovery of Africanized honeybees in a second part of central Louisiana.

NAPLES, Fla. -- Tropical Storm Fay moved inland today after making landfall in southwest Florida, bringing soaking rains and gusty winds but failing to reach the minimal hurricane status that had been predicted.