The placement of spring break in the University's academic calendar induced conflict at Tuesday's Faculty Senate meeting. Previously, spring break typically occurred the week of Good Friday, according...

Student Government will announce the results of its fall election atthe weekly SG Senate meeting tonight. The meeting is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. in the Senate Chambers on the thirdfloor of the LSU Student...

STUDENT ARRESTED ON DRUG CHARGESA 21-year-old University student was arrested Wednesday, Oct. 28, on eight counts of illegal manufacture or distribution of Schedule I drugs, among other charges.LSU Police...

(AP) — A Louisiana justice of the peace who refused to marry a couple because the bride was white and groom was black resigned Tuesday.Keith Bardwell, who is white, quit the post with a one-sentence...

Just one year after President Barack Obama was elected to presidency,voters headed to the polls again Tuesday night for a mix ofgubernatorial, Congressional and various local off-year elections. The stakes...

Jennie Waldrop, animal, dairy and poultry sciences senior, was raped on Nov. 21, 2005. With the help of her attorney, a rape crisis adviser and friends, her attacker is now behind bars in Angola Prison,...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Police say an LSU transfer student from the United Kingdom has been accused of repeatedly raping a woman on campus over the weekend. An affidavit of probable cause says 20-year-old...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The LSU Museum of Natural Sciences' top fish specialist has won a half-million-dollar grant to study the family tree of fish called heroine cichlids (SIK'-lids). Ichthyology...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana's ethics system has been "crippled" as a result of legal changes made during Gov. Bobby Jindal's 2008 special session on ethics, the chairman of the Louisiana Board...

(AP) — The state Department of Health and Hospitals says Louisiana's swine flu death toll is now at 30, with six deaths related to the virus in the past week.Four — two boys and two women —...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea claimed Tuesday that it has successfully weaponized more plutonium for atomic bombs, a day after warning Washington to agree quickly to direct talks or face...

A recent study by Pew Research reveals a significantly higher percentage of Internet users now use Twitter or similar status updating services since the last time the survey was commissioned from December...