trial

After over a year and a half since the oil spill in the Gulf...

The case against oil giant BP will be delayed for at least a week.

Lawyers for the owners of the drilling rig that exploded at the start of the BP spill are asking a judge to make a key witness talk to them before their trial. Attorneys for Transocean want to interview Donald Vidrine, who was BP's well site leader when the well blew April 20, 2010.

Jury selection resumes today for the federal court retrial of former New Orleans City Councilwoman Renee Gill Pratt.

A Texas judge has ruled that financier Allen Stanford is incompetent to stand trial at this time over allegations that he was involved in a seven-billion-dollar fraud including many in Louisiana.