A former tropical disturbance failed to form into a tropical depression before reaching the coast, but it could still have serious impacts.

Other than that tropical disturbance we've been tracking this week, there's really nothing else happening across the Gulf, the Caribbean Sea or the Atlantic Ocean, at least not yet. We're still in a time of the hurricane season where it's not at all unusual to have little to no activity,

A group of current or former Louisiana police chiefs and the operator of a Subway sandwich shop are accused of colluding in a decade-long scheme to falsify police reports to help foreign nationals get visas meant for crime victims or witnesses.

The police chiefs worked with a business owner to help hundreds of people get U visas intended for crime victims.

Four law enforcement officials, including two current police chiefs, are charged in connection with a scheme to fraudulently secure U.S. visas.

Louisiana is officially canceling a $3 billion coastal restoration project funded by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill settlement.

Louisiana cancels $3 billion repair of eroding Gulf coastline funded by 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill settlement.

Louisiana on Thursday scrapped a $3 billion project to repair its disappearing Gulf coastline, an initiative funded by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill settlement. Conservationists called it an urgent response to c limate change,