NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The owner of the New Orleans Hornets has announced that he has cancer. George Shinn made the announcement in a news release Friday that he was recently diagnosed with prostate cancer. Shinn says he remains healthy and is optimisti...

WASHINGTON (AP) — An Army spokeswoman says the suspect in the Fort Hood shootings had been scheduled to deploy to Afghanistan to counsel soldiers suffering from combat stress. Army spokeswoman Col. Cathy Abbott says Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, an active...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Officials said at least eight people were hurt in a shooting at a downtown office building Friday and a gunman was on the loose. People streamed out of the high-rise building around lunchtime and some told local television stati...

Florida football coach Urban Meyer has been fined $30,000 for criticizing Southeastern Conference officials, the league office announced Monday in a news release. The fine is the first of its kind since all athletic directors in the SEC agreed to have all...

There is an adage that reads, “It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish.” After winning two individual single titles earlier in the year at the Hoosier Classic in Indiana, the LSU women’s tennis team will push for a strong...

Two LSU teams will be in Tuscaloosa this weekend, but one will be taking the pool instead of the gridiron. The LSU swimming and diving teams will face Alabama at 3 p.m. today. Following the meet, they’ll get back on the bus and head east to Tallahas...

Another obstacle looms in front of the LSU soccer team’s quest to become the school’s most successful team. Just as No. 16 LSU (13-4-3, 8-2-1) has failed to get past Florida in the regular season, the Tigers have also fallen in the Southeaster...

Spring practice for any collegiate football program is a time to start rebuilding the team, from revamping a defense or offense or replacing key position players. For LSU’s gymnastics team, fall practice this season is a time for the Tigers to repla...

As the 2009 hurricane season draws to a close, Tropical Storm Ida threatens to enter the Gulf of Mexico and end the below-average season with a bang. Ida, which hovered over Nicaragua on Thursday, is expected to travel over Honduras where it will encounte...

The regular season schedule still has seven matches remaining, but the No. 19 LSU volleyball team is treating each match like it could be its last. “We’re pretending like we’re already in the first and second round [of the NCAA tournamen...

Student Government hosted Chats with Mary Parker on Thursday in Free Speech Alley, but only one student noticed. Typically, Chancellor Michael Martin is guest of the Chats series. Today Martin was replaced by Mary Parker, executive director of Undergradua...

East Baton Rouge Parish residents will vote next Saturday on Mayor-President Kip Holden’s bond issue, a $901 million tax package a full year in the making. With only about a week left before the vote, supporters and detractors of the largest Baton R...

When the LSU football team takes the field Saturday at Bryant-Denny Stadium to face the Alabama Crimson Tide, lining up opposite the LSU defense at running back will be sophomore Mark Ingram. The Flint, Mich., native flirted with Michigan State and Iowa b...

Undergraduate students in the College of Arts and Sciences are getting hands-on research experience through the Arts and Sciences Program in Research, or ASPIRE. Through ASPIRE, founded last year by former dean Guillermo Ferreyra, undergraduates submit a ...

After months of debate, the Nov. 14 bond issue vote has garnered support from a wide variety of local organizations. The $901 million tax package, which would fund improvement projects in downtown Baton Rouge and around the parish, recently earned the sup...

Bayou Country Superfest tickets are available today, according to an LSU Athletics e-mail.   The concert will feature popular country artists Kenny Chesney, Taylor Swift, Brooks & Dunn and Keith Urban. It is scheduled to begin May 29. Other artis...

Undergraduate students in the College of Arts and Sciences are getting hands-on research experience through the Arts and Sciences Program in research. ASPIRE, founded by former Dean Guillermo Ferreyra, targets undergraduates in the College of Arts and Sci...

LSU football coach Les Miles said on Wednesday the Tigers’ enthusiasm is intensifying almost too much as their matchup against Alabama draws near. “We had a good practice today ... a little too much contact,” Miles said. “They need...

The LSU soccer team needed just one half to dispatch Vanderbilt and advance in the Southeastern Conference tournament. The No. 16 Tigers (13-4-3) raced to a 3-1 halftime lead behind the efforts of senior midfielder Melissa Clarke and never looked back in ...