To view the salary database, click here. A month after students received an ominous broadcast e-mail warning about mid-year budget cuts, the University's financial situation has proved to be a mixed bag...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Entergy Corp. has acknowledged in a letter that it sold power to Mississippi under a fuel contract that once led to $72 million in refunds to Louisiana customers. The letter...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Two of Louisiana's new congressmen have learned their committee assignments on Capitol Hill. U.S. Rep. Anh "Joseph" Cao (gow), a New Orleans Republican, announced today that...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Promising to protect the United States while adhering to its core human values, President-elect Barack Obama formally unveiled his intelligence team Friday, praising their integrity,...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana will receive $1.05 million as part of a $375 million national medical fraud settlement with pharmaceutical manufacturer Cephalon Inc. The suit accused Cephalon of...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana gets high marks in a national education survey for its public school standards, teacher training and the way it measures academic performance, but the state's overall...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Barack Obama's proposed tax cuts ran into opposition Thursday from senators in his own party who said they wouldn't do much to stimulate the economy or create jobs. Senators...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Barack Obama is officially the next president of the United States, Congress declared Thursday in fulfilling its centuries-old constitutional duty to certify and tally the electoral...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal announced a new dropout prevention pilot program that will begin in the spring, aiming to get skills training to teenagers to keep them in school. Jindal...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Barack Obama is urging Congress to postpone the Feb. 17 switch from analog to digital television broadcasting. In a letter to key lawmakers, transition team co-chair...

FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — President-elect Barack Obama urged dubious lawmakers Thursday to work with him "day and night, on weekends if necessary" to approve the largest taxpayer-funded stimulus ever,...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Barack Obama said Wednesday that reforming massive government entitlement programs — such as Social Security and Medicare — would be "a central part"...