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

University news, videos and interactive campus information — beginning in the fall, there will be an app for that.The official University mobile app for smart phones will be available for free by...

Baton Rouge's film industry will gain some fresh blood this fall as the next installment of the "Twilight" saga comes to shoot in the capital city.Summit Entertainment has announced it will be filming...

The  fictional "tired old town" of Maycomb, Ala., has captured the imaginations of high school students across the globe during the last 50 years as the setting of the iconic Southern novel that instilled...

Everyone with an "@lsu.edu" email address was unable to send messages for a 24-hour period this weekend because of account hackings causing email carriers to block the addresses.The incident, which happened...

LSU redshirt freshman quarterback Chris Garrett will leave the LSU football program, according to an LSU news release. Garrett, the third-string quarterback on LSU's roster, will transfer from the Tigers...

(AP) — Republican U.S. Sen. David Vitter and his Democratic challenger, Charlie Melancon, painted each other as partisan political puppets as they signed up for the Senate race Wednesday on the first...

Church: Cuba offers to free 52 political prisoners HAVANA (AP) — The Roman Catholic Church said Wednesday that Cuba has agreed to free 52 political prisoners and allow them to leave the country in...

 The University named Manship School of Mass Communication professor emeritus Laura Lindsay interim dean of the College of Education Wednesday. Lindsey will hold the post for the next year while...

Student Government has been tackling many changes in academics this summer, including revising the W grade policy.Students receive a W when they drop a course after the established drop date.The new policy...

A pair of workers wearing hard hats examine field samples in a photograph on the cover of BP's 2009 Sustainability Review. The year-old report's title would now provoke either a laugh or a disgusted look...

—The federal government is seeking to have a court reinstate a moratorium on deepwater drilling. In a filing with the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, the government argued for the reversal of...