NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Chris Paul had 21 points, 13 assists and six steals, and the New Orleans Hornets won their seventh straight game, beating the Oklahoma City Thunder 108-90 on Saturday night. Julian...

Higher education officials told state college leaders to prepare for more than 15 percent in cuts from their state funding next fiscal year, The Advocate reported Saturday.  Discussed during...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Time to set the clock forward by an hour. Also, you can heat up the grill and break out the badminton set: Daylight-saving time is returning to shift an hour of light to the evenings. That...

Lee Domingue and Dan Claitor will face off in an April 4 election, according to closing polls at the Louisiana Secretary of State's Web site. Claitor took the lead with more than 6,500 votes over...

GENEVA (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton predicted on Friday that the United States and Russia will complete a new strategic arms reduction treaty by the end of this year and...

BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday she is hopeful that her first discussion with her Russian counterpart will open a new page in U.S.-Russian relations...

Students will have an extra week of winter break before the start of spring semester next year, University Registrar Robert Doolos said in a broadcast e-mail sent Friday morning.As part of the revised...

Jodi C. Silvio, a member of the Tiger Athletic Foundation board of directors, has been identified in a 12-member group in Alabama that has been allegedly dispensing and selling thousands of dosages of...

Chancellor Michael Martin told University faculty, staff and students in a broadcast e-mail Friday the LSU foundation endowment has lost value. Martin said the endowment has lost value because of the turbulence...

HAMMOND, La. (AP) — Police say a drunk driver, who apparently ran off the road and into a group of pedestrians near Southeastern Louisiana University, killed three people and injured two others. University...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal plans to spend nearly $30 million on emergency generators for nursing homes and hospitals. Jindal said the generators are necessary to prepare...

  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Thirteen turned out to be the lucky number for Anoop Desai on "American Idol." After announcing the three remaining finalists at the end of Thursday's wild card round, Simon...