BLOWBACK: For all the promise of offshore wind energy, a potential new industry in the Gulf of Mexico, fishers and shrimpers worry that development will impair their livelihood. Read about that conflict in Trouble in the Wind, the final installment in our five-part series on wind power.
PREP PLAYOFFS: Jesuit survived. Newman did not. The big high school football games this weekend saw the Blue Jays best the Brother Martin Crusaders and the Greenies and fall to the Lafayette Christian Academy Knights.
NO DOZE: A year after the 898-foot tanker Atina crashed into an oil platform near the mouth of the Mississippi River, federal investigators have determined why: The ship's master had gone 50 hours without any sleep.
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Newman had hoped to not only put an end to Lafayette Christian Academy’s reign as the Division III state champions, but also hoped to reach the first title game in the school’s history. Read more
