• Annual appointment

• Judge disqualifies candidate for clerk

• HANO drops two contracts

• Vacant lots overgrowing neighbors patience

• Fish fry at the Dome

• Zero gravity inspiration

• New Orleans garbage contracts blasted in new inspector general report 9:33 p.m. CT

• Orleans jury convicts man of killing kids in 2002 over "high school drama" 9:52 p.m. CT

• Outpatient mental care clinics touted; Health secretary says services not cut 9:13 p.m. CT

• New Orleans City Council agrees to withhold contracts, grants from certain convicts 8:58 p.m. CT

• Jonathan Bolar faces 3 challengers for Gretna City Council seat 8:51 p.m. CT

• Book deals in the works for New Orleans Saints Coach Sean Payton, quarterback Drew Brees

• Jake Delhomme to spend weekend with New Orleans Saints

• St. Tammany 911 system getting upgrade, including aerial views 8:28 p.m. CT

• St. Tammany jail security to be reviewed by Chicago firm 7:45 p.m. CT

• 3 men want to be Slidell mayor 7:10 p.m. CT

• Free tax return help offered in St. Bernard Parish 2:55 p.m. CT