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Patrons get their hair cut at Webb's Barber Shop on Eddie Robinson Sr. Drive off of Government Street. The Union Advisory Board is discussing hiring a barber for minority students because the current on-campus barber serves a clientele lacking in diversity.

Union Barbershop seeks to increase clientele diversity

By Senior Contributing Writer September 5, 2012

A lack of diversity at the Student Union’s Barbershop has sent the University on a search for new barbers. Some students have expressed mixed opinions about the success of the Union Barbershop,...

Israeli model and actress rallies support for imprisoned Gadhafi son

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September 5, 2012

  TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) - An imprisoned son of former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi is getting help from an unlikely source: an Israeli actress and model who says she had a romantic relationship...

Union Barbershop seeks to increase clientele diversity

A lack of diversity at the Student Union's Barbershop has sent the University on a search for new barbers. Some students have expressed mixed opinions about the success of the Union Barbershop, and said...

Dead nutria and other creatures wash ashore in Hurricane Isaac’s wake

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September 5, 2012

  JOLIET, Ill. (AP) - Drew Peterson - the crass former Illinois police officer who gained notoriety after his much-younger wife vanished in 2007 - was convicted Thursday of murdering a previous wife...

Roslyn Satchel, communications Ph. D. student, places her parking meter ticket on her dashboard in front of the PMAC on Wednesday afternoon.

Parking meters bring in nearly $350K last year

By Ben Wallace
Senior Contributing Writer
September 5, 2012

About $1,000 a day - that's how much, on average, the University's Office of Parking, Traffic and Transportation earned on metered parking fees last year. "That's a lot of nickels and dimes in those meters,"...

European Central Bank unveils aggresive bond plan to save euro

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September 5, 2012

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) - The European Central Bank unveiled its most ambitious plan yet to ease Europe's financial crisis with a plan to buy unlimited amounts of government bonds to help lower borrowing...

Regenerated remnant of Hurricane Isaac lurks in Gulf of Mexico

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September 5, 2012

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - If a well-traveled remnant of last week's Hurricane Isaac becomes a tropical system in the Gulf of Mexico, it would be a rare but not unprecedented event, forecasters say. In 2005, a...

Board of Supervisors proposal could have Athletics Department give $7.2 million a year to University

By Chris Grillot
Staff Writer
September 5, 2012

The LSU System Board of Supervisors will deliberate Friday whether LSU Athletics should help tackle the University's ongoing budget crisis. If passed, the LSU Athletics Fund Transfer Policy would create...

Ex-FEMA worker gets one year probation in contract probe fraud

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September 5, 2012

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A former employee of the Federal Emergency Management Agency has been sentenced to one year of probation for helping a government contractor prepare a FEMA contract proposal for maintaining...

Police in legal minefield take action on Arizona immigration law

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September 5, 2012

  PHOENIX (AP) - The most contentious part of Arizona's immigration law has approval to move forward, surviving a U.S. Supreme Court ruling. But the practical effect of what critics call the "show...

Costa RIca escapes big damage from serious 7.6 magnitude quake

By The Associated Press
September 5, 2012

  CANGREJAL, Costa Rica (AP) - The bulletins were terrifying: a powerful earthquake had struck off the coast of this Central American country, spawning a tsunami warning and bringing fears of widespread...

LSU System Legal Counsel Ray Lamonica resigns

By Staff Reports
September 5, 2012

The LSU System legal counsel Ray Lamonica resigned from his position Thursday, according to the LSU System. His resignation comes a few months after former LSU System President John Lombardi was fired...