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TripAdvisor users are giving New Orleans enough positive feedback to make the city one of the website's top U.S. tourism destinations for 2013.more>> TripAdvisor users are giving New Orleans enough positive feedback to make the city one of the website's top U.S. tourism destinations for 2013.more>> While the New Orleans area isn't spared of tornadoes, it rarely sees storms as powerful as the one that hit near Oklahoma City. But five months ago, people in nearby McNeill felt the brunt of an EF-3 tornado.
more>> While the New Orleans area isn't spared of tornadoes, it rarely sees storms as powerful as the one that hit near Oklahoma City. But five months ago, people in nearby McNeill felt the brunt of an EF-3 tornado.
more>> State Police continue their investigation into a deadly accident involving a 15-year-old girl who was driving without a license and transporting three younger siblings, most of whom did not have on seat belts.
more>> State Police continue their investigation into a deadly accident involving a 15-year-old girl who was driving without a license and transporting three younger siblings, most of whom did not have on seat belts.
more>> Red Cross volunteers from south Louisiana have mobilized to provide emergency aid to tornado victims.more>> Red Cross volunteers from south Louisiana have mobilized to provide emergency aid to tornado victims.more>> Drivers of the Elio, a three-wheeled vehicle to be manufactured in Shreveport, won't have to wear helmets.more>> Drivers of the Elio, a three-wheeled vehicle to be manufactured in Shreveport, won't have to wear helmets.more>> Motorists in Louisiana will have to add tweets and Facebook updates to the list of activity banned while driving, in addition to texting.more>> Motorists in Louisiana will have to add tweets and Facebook updates to the list of activity banned while driving, in addition to texting.more>> All the weeks of Bob Breck's radiation therapy have come down to one moment. Blood test results reveal whether the treatments worked.
more>> All the weeks of Bob Breck's radiation therapy have come down to one moment. Blood test results reveal whether the treatments worked.more>> Police say an intoxicated mom left her 3-month-old daughter inside of a parked sport utility vehicle while she socialized at a Kenner bar.more>> Police say an intoxicated mom left her 3-month-old daughter inside of a parked sport utility vehicle while she socialized at a Kenner bar.more>> Senators have killed a $3.5 billion public school funding proposal submitted to lawmakers by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.more>> Senators have killed a $3.5 billion public school funding proposal submitted to lawmakers by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.more>> Jefferson Parish sheriff's detectives are seeking information about the deaths of a man found in a Harvey field and another man shot once in the chest inside his garage two miles away.more>> Jefferson Parish sheriff's detectives are seeking information about the deaths of a man found in a Harvey field and another man shot once in the chest inside his garage two miles away.more>>
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A lawyer for BP PLC entered a not-guilty plea for the company as it was arraigned on charges stemming from a deadly 2010 rig explosion and massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
The plea Tuesday in federal court was a procedural move paving the way for a later guilty plea.
It doesn't signal that BP is backing away from its plea agreement, company and government lawyers said. BP announced earlier this month that it will plead guilty to manslaughter, obstruction of Congress and other charges and pay a record $4.5 billion in penalties to resolve a federal probe of the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
Attorneys for BP and the Justice Department are scheduled to meet Dec. 11 with a federal judge to discuss a date for pleading guilty.
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