TODAY'S NEWS

• Sky-high electric bills spark pleas for help

• Bush to laud post-storm progress

• Jindal bucks tradition, gives up LSU tickets

• Protesters call for Shell to pay La. $362 million

• Troy Carter: Promises a fresh perspective

• 3 booked in Slidell apartment drug raid

• All robber wanted was to be a snitch

• Blood drive set to help boy, 9

• Boyfriend booked in shooting death

• Bush to laud post-storm progress

• Covington land add passes panel

• Covington puts tax on ballot

• Doctor says bouncers killed student

• Extra judge is added to state 5th Circuit

• Gretna to enforce property rules

• Kenner to budget for trash money

• Man held in LaPlace robbery, carjack

• Marrero man booked in shooting

• Marrero teenager guilty in killing

• Metairie man gets life in prison

• New law will send board back to school

• New library to be built at Lakeshore location

• New Orleans man held in shooting

• N.O. school plans receive cautious support

• Parish may fight fire flap with PR

• Pharmacy students getting their coats

• Playing the game of cat and house

• Police cruiser crashes on South Claiborne

• POLICE REPORTS

• Sky-high electric bills spark pleas for help

• Slain teacher remembered as generous

• Slidell woman dies in accident

• Sneed plans to resign Jefferson council post

• St. Charles is recognized for emergency alert system

• TAKING A STAND

• Treme club ordered to close

• West Bank road lanes to close

• William Jefferson: Longevity, clout matter

• U.S. 11 bridge lanes to close

• HAPPENINGS

• MEETINGS

• Prison term set over bootleg CDs

• Water quality tests are canceled

• N.O. school plans receive cautious support

• TAKING A STAND

• Doctor says bouncers killed student

• Police cruiser crashes on South Claiborne

• Treme club ordered to close

• All robber wanted was to be a snitch

• Pharmacy students getting their coats

• New Orleans man held in shooting

• N.O. POLICE BLOTTER

• N.O. POLICE BLOTTER

• Kenner to budget for trash money

• New library to be built at Lakeshore location

• Parish may fight fire flap with PR

• Blood drive set to help boy, 9

• Covington puts tax on ballot

• New law will send board back to school

• Slidell woman dies in accident

• Covington land add passes panel

• 3 booked in Slidell apartment drug raid

• POLICE REPORTS

• U.S. 11 bridge lanes to close

• Extra judge is added to state 5th Circuit

• Man held in LaPlace robbery, carjack

• St. Charles is recognized for emergency alert system

• Hopedale hooks fishing tour

• State judge pleads innocent to theft

• Gretna to enforce property rules

• Marrero man booked in shooting

• Slain teacher remembered as generous

• AIMING HIGHER

• BRIEFS

• BRIEFS

• Go ahead, bet 'The House' anchors LSU's line

• Kropog grows into larger role with Wave

• LOUISIANA NOTEBOOK

• Nixon trying to regain form to help Mets

• OH NO, LOLO

• Quarter-horse racing stirs memories

• ZEPHYRS 9, IOWA 5

• AIMING HIGHER

• BRIEFS

• BRIEFS

• Go ahead, bet 'The House' anchors LSU's line

• Kropog grows into larger role with Wave

• Nixon trying to regain form to help Mets

• Peter Finney: Quarter-horse racing stirs memories

• Quarter-horse racing stirs memories

• ZEPHYRS 9, IOWA 5

• Carnival to upsize cruise-ship presence

• Fair Grounds work progresses

• Orpheum owners plan repairs

• River pilots oversight board starts new era

• Benson buys into production company

• Breakthrough novelist

• True life

• More cowbell!

• Hot reads

• Shelf Life

• This week

• Write stuff

• Fall/winter benefits deadline is Friday

• WEDNESDAY'S CALENDAR

• Dave Walker: Benson buys into production company

• Hot reads

• Shelf Life

• This week

• True life

• Lawrence Israel, 73, commodities executive