Live blog for Thursday: Sheriff, city square off over consent decree finances
Gusman says city money falls short; city wants to void prison healthcare contract.
Two schools lose charters, but fates of their students are starkly different
Major error by city causes tax problems for its employees for 2013 and 2014
Comptroller says city inflated income by 25 percent for 2013; IRS sending penalty letters.
Lawsuit says state prison officials broke sunshine law in discussing executions
Death-penalty opponents say a committee created by the Legislature never met publicly.
Losing Ground collaboration with ProPublica honored by Scripps Howard, Society for News Design
A judge said of the project: "That map does things we haven't seen before. It's an amazing project."
Day after boasting of Gulf’s health, BP confirms 25,000-pound tar mat
On Monday BP released a statement claiming the environment of the northern Gulf of Mexico had returned its “baseline condition” five years after its Deepwater Horizon disaster pumped more than 200 million gallons of oil into the Gulf off Louisiana’s coast. But on Tuesday the U.S. Coast Guard was supervising the ongoing removal of a large oil tar mat on East Grand Terre Island that has yielded more than 25,000 pounds of oil mixed with sand since late February, a BPO spokesman confirmed.
One of nine holdouts from the OneApp enrollment system considers joining early
Sci High's board will discuss the matter at Thursday board meeting; change would come one year early
Lagniappe Academies doesn’t have money to fight state school board over renewal
Also, board members say that even a successful lawsuit likely would stretch past next academic year's start.
City could owe hundreds of thousands to firefighters who filled in for superiors
City says it will pay higher rate from now on, but it wants to avoid back pay.
