WHITING, Ind. (AP) — Power has been restored to BP’s sprawling oil refinery in northwest Indiana following an outage that prompted the company to temporarily shut down the complex and evacuate workers, BP said Friday. BP spokesperson Christina Audisho said in a statement that power was back on Friday at the refinery following Thursday’s outage, and the refinery’s office buildings …

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans’ annual Carnival celebration entered its high-intensity home stretch Friday with a beefed-up police presence and a weather forecast that threatened to disrupt the first of two weekends of elaborate parades. Three parades were scheduled to roll Friday night with no weather complications expected. But flood-threatening rains were in the forecast for Saturday. City officials …

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — College coach Brian Kelly is used to managing the Louisiana State University Tigers, the school’s beloved football team, but on Friday he was face to face with a bald eagle. Standing on a levee along the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge — about a mile from the famed LSU Tiger Stadium — Kelly released the …