Lumina Foundation, a Indianapolis-based organization, cites higher education as one of the keys for pulling out the recession.The Foundation said their goals to advance higher education align with President...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Federal Emergency Management Agency says more than $809 million in federal funding has poured into Louisiana in the six months since hurricanes Gustav and Ike struck parts...

Ongoing construction on the Student Union isn't only an inconvenience for students. As the job drags on, workers are battling another problem: the building's increasing rat troubles. Openings in the building...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama declared Monday that insurance giant American International Group is in financial straits because of "recklessness and greed" and said he intends to stop...

Rodger Kamenetz, English, philosophy and religious studies professor, is scheduled to deliver the keynote address at the "Gift of the Dream" conferences, according to a University news release. The keynote...

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — After a 2007 deficit of $377,000, the Independence Bowl is expected to be in the black for 2008 when all the accounting is done.Still, it's currently unclear how much money...

Statistics show temperature-related deaths such as heat stroke and hyperthermia are three times more fatal than all other natural event deaths combined - including hurricanes, earthquakes and tornados.The...

KENNER, La. (AP) — A Delta Air Lines plane with 190 people on board safely landed in New Orleans after striking birds shortly after takeoff. Delta Flight 1053 returned Monday morning to Louis Armstrong...

The College of Arts and Sciences will lose both the math department and their dean, Guillermo Ferreyra, according to a broadcast e-mail to the Arts and Sciences faculty.The transfer of the math department...

A record - high of 41 percent of Americans think global warming could be "exaggerated," a recent Gallup poll showed.The last time numbers were almost as high was in 2004 when 38 percent of Americans said...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana banks are being spared the problems bedeviling the country's largest institutions and, in many cases, are performing better than their peers in other states, the state's...