Every university in the LSU System is preparing for a 23-percent budget reduction for the 2011-12 fiscal year.Before its meeting Friday, the Board of Supervisors members listened to each chancellor from...

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Man caught smuggling 18 monkeys at Mexico airport MEXICO CITY (AP) — A man with a mysterious bulge under his T-shirt was stopped, searched and detained at Mexico City's international airport after...

Fundraising efforts for the Murphy family are still going strong in Lafayette. Sammy Kershaw will headline a benefit concert tonight at Parc International in Lafayette from 6 to 10 p.m.Popeyes, Burgersmith,...

University undergraduates can expect a 10-percent increase in tuition and mandatory fees beginning this fall after the LSU System's Board of Supervisors implemented provisions of the LA GRAD Act at its...

BP is claiming oil is no longer flowing into the Gulf of Mexico for the first time in 87 days, according to a report by The Associated Press. The report said a new cap placed over the damaged well contained...

The Louisiana Board of Regents unanimously elected Tom Layzell as the interim commissioner of higher education. Layzell steps in for former Commissioner Sally Clausen, who quit in June. The board will...

—The federal government gave BP the green light Wednesday to try choking off the Gulf of Mexico oil gusher with an untested metal cap after a daylong delay to satisfy worries about whether the project...

LSU sophomore Brian Murphy has returned home after being struck by a car in South Africa during a family trip to the World Cup.A drunk driver struck Brian and his sisters Nicole and Kellie while they were...

Afghan attacks kill 8 US troops in 24 hours KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — American forces suffered a deadly 24 hours in Afghanistan, with eight troops killed in attacks including an audacious Taliban...

An 18-year-old incoming freshman who was in Baton Rouge for orientation died Monday night after her car was broadsided by a pickup truck on South Acadian Thruway.Morgan Elizabeth Thompson, of Fairhope,...

Chandra Theegala finished grading his students' final exams for the spring semester on a Sunday afternoon. But instead of kicking back to enjoy the start of summer break, Theegala went to The Home Depot...