The fracking-led oil and natural gas boom that's received widespread attention in the mainstream press has moved to a new medium: reality TV.
The number of deaths linked to cantaloupes contaminated with the Listeria monocytogenes bacteria has risen to 23, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed Wednesday.
• She may be busy making a new movie - but Anna Paquin is also making time for another passion: sweets. The True Blood actress is in Shreveport, La., to film Straight A's (with Ryan Phillippe) when she had a chance encounter with a fellow shopper at the Albertson's grocery store. The actress was in the bakery and told the shopper she was trying to learn how to make red velvet cake. "She was really accessible and friendly," a source says.
Hundreds gathered in northern Louisiana on Saturday to honor a Navy SEAL, one of 30 U.S. military personnel killed one week earlier when their helicopter went down in Afghanistan.
The U.S. Defense Department Thursday released the names of U.S. military personnel killed in Saturday's downing of a helicopter in Afghanistan.
The names of the soldiers and inside President Obama's visit with their grieving families
Sweltering heat continued to grip much of the South on Friday as temperatures soared to 109 degrees in Dallas and 110 in Oklahoma City.
Triple-digit heat scorches Texas and Oklahoma. CNN's Ed Lavandera reports from the epicenter of heat misery.
The actors got close while filming Playing the Field in Louisiana. But how close?
• Jessica Biel and costar Gerard Butler ordered 13 dozen cupcakes from Cush's Grocery and Market for the cast and crew of Playing the Field, which they're shooting in Shreveport, La. "It's a wide variety of cupcakes [that] she and Gerard ordered for a Friday treat," a source tells PEOPLE. Biel has dropped into the store several times for lunch, and usually orders the chicken salad special, the source says, calling the actress "one of the nicest, most down-to-earth people."
Henry Ford once said, "Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black."
Henry Ford once said, "Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black."
Job security for auto workers used to mean ironclad labor contracts that insured they got paid whether or not they were working.
Mississippi Winn didn't get caught up in the amazing statistics that accompanied someone her age.
The star serenades actor Will Yun Lee and actress Jennifer Birmingham on their big day
As temperatures soared Monday, the cool water of Shreveport, Louisiana's, Red River lured a group of family and friends to its banks.
Officials explain what likely happened at the scene where six teens drowned in a Louisiana river.
The mother of a missing 12-year-old Louisiana girl who was found safe Wednesday said hearing the news was "like no other phone call I've gotten before in my life."
The mother of a missing Shreveport, Louisiana, girl said Tuesday that one of two men suspected in her daughter's disappearance spent time at their home, playing video games and hanging out with their family.
General Motors said Thursday it will not shut down most of its assembly plants this summer, as it usually does, due to sizzling demand.
• Jennifer Garner may be in Shreveport, La., to film her new movie, Butter, but the actress has been enjoying the company of her family - husband Ben Affleck and daughters Violet, 4, and Seraphina, 1. A favorite family activity: shopping. Recently, the four bought matching tennis shoes for the girls at New Balance and also bought them educational toys at the Moppet Shoppe. Another local hangout: the Starbucks, where the family has grabbed breakfast and lattes with shots of espresso for Garner most mornings. She also "It's like clockwork," sources say of their visits, which also include cookies for their girls. "Jennifer is super sweet and her girls are too."
Winter weather is being blamed for a multi-car pile up in Wyandotte County, Kansas.
Two men died Saturday morning when their pickup collided head-on with one of Trace Adkins' tour buses north of Shreveport, Louisiana.
Forecasters are warning that the melt from Friday's rare snowfall across much of the South could freeze overnight Saturday, creating dangerous conditions.
It so rarely snows in Mobile, Alabama, that the city's public works department doesn't bother keeping road salt on hand.
Mobile County, Alabama got hit with the snow storm that swept through the South. (no audio)
President Obama expressed what many Americans feel regarding the recent arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis "Skip" Gates -- that the Cambridge, Massachusetts, police responded "stupidly."
People struggling with headaches, toothaches, and even feelings of loneliness are calling 911 -- often several times a day.
President Obama expressed what many Americans feel regarding the recent arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis "Skip" Gates -- that the Cambridge, Massachusetts, police responded "stupidly."
All 22 Shriners Hospitals for Children will stay open, but some eventually might become outpatient-only surgery facilities, the system that offers free specialty pediatric care said Thursday.
Members of the Shriners fraternity voted Monday to withdraw a measure that would have closed six of the 22 Shriners Hospitals for Children, representatives of some of the facilities said.
The five remaining defendants in the racially charged "Jena Six" case will appear in court Friday and are expected to enter a plea, a spokesman for the district attorney's office said.
A cash flow crisis could close several Shriners hospitals. CNN.com's Jason Hanna and Melissa Long discuss the impact.
Matt Aldridge would have trouble contemplating life without the Shriners Hospital for Children in Greenville, South Carolina.
For years, Candace Eloph searched for her half-brother, who was given up for adoption in 1977. She found him -- living across the street.
A Louisiana woman discovers her adopted brother lives across the street. CNN affiliate KTBS reports.
The swine flu, also known as the H1N1 virus, is all over the news. A string of cases have been reported across the United States, as well as across the globe, with Mexico the hardest hit country, so far.
Saying they'll cut costs is the easy part. Now, in order to stave off bankruptcy, comes the hard part: General Motors must axe 23,000 people and decide which plants to keep open, and which to permanently shut down.
A federal lawsuit alleges police are seizing money and property of non-whites by threatening them with criminal prosecution.
Officials in the tiny east Texas town of Tenaha are accused in a federal lawsuit of stopping African-Americans driving through town and seizing their money and property by threatening them with criminal prosecution -- or worse.
Last summer's bar fight that resulted in the actor's arrest is now history
An Arkansas television anchorwoman died Saturday, several days after she didn't answer her wake-up call and was found beaten in her home
Jacksonville Jaguars offensive tackle Richard Collier was shot and critically wounded outside an apartment building early Tuesday as he and a former Jacksonville teammate waited for two women they had met at a nightclub
Tens of thousands of residents from Louisiana and Mississippi flocked Monday to dozens of inland shelters where they sought refuge from Hurricane Gustav.
General Motors Corp. said Monday it will cut production by another 117,000 vehicles, citing continued weak in consumer demand for pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles
The actor, his W costar Jeffrey Wright and five others were involved
A cargo jet crashed Sunday just west of Monterrey, Mexico, killing the pilot and injuring the co-pilot, a company representative said.
General Motors Corp. told dealers Monday it plans to raise prices on 2009 models by an average of 3.5% despite a tough market that is forcing the automaker to cut production and discount its 2008 models
The country singer and former DWTS contestant is marrying football player Jay Barker
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NEW ORLEANS -- The NBA came here to help rescue a city, and what did Paul McCartney say about that kind of work? The love you take is equal to the love you make.
A man has been indicted on federal charges for allegedly displaying hangman's nooses from the back of a pickup truck during a civil rights march last year in Jena, Louisiana.
A city marshal in Shreveport, Louisiana, cast doubt Sunday on reported sightings there of a man charged with murder in the death of a pregnant Marine.
Hike up those pants. Droopy drawers that bare skin or underwear might soon be forbidden fashion on the streets of several cities, and violators could be forced to part with some cash.
Picture this: A rotund, theatrical politician from Harlem and a wiry, introverted policy-wonk from Shreveport sitting elbow to elbow on the House floor, shuffling between each other's offices, passing paper between staffs. Two men from opposite ends of the political spectrum, they are joined in secrecy on a project that just about everyone else in Washington considers doomed to failure. Charlie Rangel and Jim McCrery are on a mission to rescue Social Security from bankruptcy.
Jessica Simpson celebrated her 27th birthday at a beach house Tuesday, but moved the gathering to her parents' home after the sand got too crowded - with photographers.
Katie Holmes wrapped filming on her movie Mad Money in Louisiana last week, but the sweet-toothed actress didn't leave town empty-handed.
Katie Holmes is having so much fun with her (very polite!) 1-year-old daughter Suri, she's ready for more kids.
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes's daughter Suri is not only well dressed, she's well mannered. After visiting a Shreveport, La., children's store recently, the 1-year-old (with a little help from her mom) sent the owners a thank-you note - on her very own embossed stationery.
Actress Jaime King and filmmaker Kyle Newman are engaged, her rep tells PEOPLE.
For the people working on Katie Holmes's new movie, Mad Money, in Shreveport, La., TGIF means "Treats and Goodies, It's Friday."
Fridays are on Katie, y'all.
The brave women and men who serve as United States Coast Guard Rescue Swimmers perform courageous, lifesaving feats every day. Clocking in at a "Waterworld"-ly 139 minutes, "The Guardian" catalogs every one of them.
Money Magazine: Giving Shelterupdated: Mon Dec 12 2005 16:39:00
bedrooms, a big garage and a small backyard for their baby Johanna, eight months, to play in. For Daniel, 26, a doctor in his second year of residency at LSU Hospital, and Elizabeth, just 22, it was a dream come true. ...
A Texas death row inmate who escaped last week from a Houston jail and was taken into custody Sunday night outside a liquor store in Shreveport, Louisiana, is back in Texas, a court official told CNN late Monday.
Money Magazine: Giving Shelterupdated: Tue Nov 01 2005 00:01:00
On Aug. 18, Elizabeth and Daniel Dillon closed the deal on their newly constructed $225,000 house in Shreveport, La. Part of a pristine new development on the outskirts of town, the house had four ...
Here are the latest numbers from the National Hurricane Center's 5 p.m. ET Saturday advisory on Tropical Storm Rita.
Hurricane Katrina wrought untold amounts of damage. But nationally, what is considered to be the largest natural disaster in U.S. history may not devastate or significantly alter companies' hiring plans in the fourth quarter.
On the 10th floor of a New Orleans high-rise, Michael Barnett, crisis manager at DirectNic, is blogging (www.mgno.com) about his co-workers' efforts to keep the Internet service provider online through the hurricane and its aftermath.
Allen Guthrie could scarcely believe his eyes when he saw his son's modest three-bedroom home in Jefferson Parish that was torn apart by Hurricane Katrina.
CNNMoney: Mardi Gras is hereupdated: Tue Feb 01 2005 10:26:00
The carnival season is upon us and millions of revelers are revving up.
Trading stocks is easy and fun, right? But frequent traders earn less than buy-and-hold investors, and they have dramatically higher costs, as Patrick James learned the hard way.
FACTORIES ONCE were America's forte. The ones on these pages suggest they could be again. The companies that operate them -- Timken, AT&T, Hoover, Milliken, and Worthington -- have much in common. ...
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