BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Attorney General Buddy Caldwell is asking state lawmakers to boost his budget by $27 million over two years and to broaden his authority to hire outside attorneys so he can prepare for a lawsuit over the Gulf oil spill. Caldwell has yet to say who he'll sue or when he'll file such a lawsuit.

"At some point in the future we're going to sue. They might come to us and have a wheelbarrow full of billions of dollars and
we might not have to sue. But I don't think that's going to happen," Caldwell said in an interview Friday.