LSU has moved up in the U.S. News & World Report's prominent "Best Colleges 2011" rankings, which were published today. The University is in a five-way tie for 124th place, up from 128th last...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The tatters of Tropical Depression 5 are back in Louisiana, bringing flash flood watches to much of Louisiana. National Weather Service meteorologist Christopher Bannan says the...

East Baton Rouge Mayor-President Kip Holden's office issued a news release Monday afternoon urging Baton Rouge residents to prepare for heavy rains and possible flooding this week. "If East Baton Rouge...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Anchorage hospital has released one of the four people who survived a plane crash that killed former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens and four others. A Providence Alaska Medical...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will mark the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans on Aug. 29. The White House says Obama will speak at Xavier University. Other administration...

The condition of former LSU Chancellor and NASA chief Sean O'Keefe is improving, according to a spokesperson from the hospital where O'Keefe is staying. O'Keefe was injured in the Alaska plane crash that...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — BP's blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico is not yet plugged for good, and work on what's been touted as the permanent solution will need to continue, the federal government...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Conditions have improved for two survivors of the Alaska plane crash that former LSU Chancellor Sean O'Keefe survived but killed former Sen. Ted Stevens and four others. Kevin...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Drilling the final feet of a relief well intended to permanently plug the busted BP oil well deep below the Gulf of Mexico will have to wait two to three days as a tropical depression...

MIAMI (AP) — A tropical depression in the Gulf of Mexico is losing steam as it moves toward the site of the oil spill off Louisiana's coast. The depression's maximum sustained winds were near 30...

DILLINGHAM, Alaska (AP) — Former Sen. Ted Stevens lay dead in the mangled fuselage of the plane. A 13-year-old boy escaped death but watched his father die a few feet away. Medical workers spent...

Former University Chancellor Sean O'Keefe and his son Kevin survived a plane crash that killed former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens, R-AK, and four others near Dillingham, AK, on Monday night. O'Keefe and Stevens...