NEW YORK (AP) — Jay-Z isn't performing at President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration, but he is planning to make a big splash on the eve of the event. The rapper, one of Obama's biggest celebrity...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — LSU has proposed more than $10.3 million in budget cuts at its main campus in Baton Rouge. LSU Chancellor Michael Martin said on Tuesday that the moves should avoid layoffs...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Barack Obama hailed a rare Oval Office gathering of all U.S. presidents as extraordinary on Wednesday, while President George W. Bush wished him well and pledged...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The state inspector general says Louisiana needs to revamp its procedures for the reporting of alleged patient abuse cases in the wake of employee arrests at a Pineville center...

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"...

HOUMA, La. (AP) — Authorities planned to search a southern Louisiana marsh by boat Monday for clues that might determine the cause of a helicopter crash that killed eight people bound for an offshore...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Barack Obama has arrived on Capitol Hill for talks with key congressional leaders, kicking his transition into high gear. Obama's motorcade arrived at the U.S. Capitol...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The Republican Party can look to Louisiana for a bit of comfort after taking a drubbing in national politics in 2008. Democrats punished the GOP across the country last year,...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — One of the teenagers at the center of the Jena Six civil rights demonstration shot himself amid worries that news reports of his Christmas Eve shoplifting arrest would extinguish...

Gov. Bobby Jindal has named a member of a prominent shipbuilding family as the new chairman of Louisiana's top higher education board.Charlotte Bollinger, the executive vice president of Bollinger Shipyards...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — At a time when Louisiana universities already are having to make budget cuts, some of them may have to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in back sales taxes on student...