BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A 39-year-old Denham Springs man has been convicted of second-degree murder in the November 2006 shooting death of a co-owner of Slippery Pete's bar in Baton Rouge. Kyle Spring,...

The Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra will present Gustav Holst's famous music piece, "The Planets" on Thursday, April 16 as their season finale. The piece features seven movements, including "Venus, the...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Woman's Hospital is looking for women who recently were pregnant and diagnosed with gestational diabetes during their pregnancy to take part in a Metabolic Screening Program. The...

The Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009, signed by President Barack Obama earlier this week, includes $22 million in funding for Louisiana university projects.The funding, at the request of Sen. Mary Landrieu,...

University associate researcher Loubna Bouamane and visiting assistant professor Ralph Maurer will be presenting in Milan, Italy at the annual Business History Confrence June 11 through June 13.They will...

Congressman Bill Cassidy announced today that the University's Pennington Biomedical Research Center will receive a $272,323 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services."The Pennington...

Gov. Bobby Jindal will submit his tightened executive budget today — quite fittingly on Friday the 13th — and higher education is expected to get hit hard. During a meeting at the Governor's...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A man serving a five-year sentence for a fatal traffic accident in Kansas City has filed a lawsuit against a Louisiana college fraternity, claiming hazing led him to take...

Chancellor Michael Martin had a hand in compiling a recently released National Research Council Report about "Transforming Agricultural Education for a Changing World."According to the report, higher education...

In efforts to keep Louisiana roads safer, Gov. Bobby Jindal announced last week his plans to crack down on drunk driving in the upcoming legislative session. The DWI-Vehicular Homicide Task Force joined...

Robert Twilley, oceanography and coastal sciences professor, was recently selected to serve on the National Academics of Science Committee on Independent Scientific Review of Everglades Restoration Progress....

Louisiana rice and crawfish farmers could be in danger of an invasive, apple-sized species of snails, according to the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries.Apple snails, which can grow to be the size of an...