(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.Ichthyology curator Prosanta Chakrabarty...

(AP) — Twelve day care centers have lost their state operating licenses because of safety concerns, the state Department of Social Services announced Tuesday, as it wrapped up a new round of inspections.The...

NEW YORK (AP) — Five immigrant men who were detained in roundups in New York and eventually deported following the Sept. 11 attacks have reached a $1.26 million settlement with the U.S. government.The...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorneys for John Allen Muhammad, mastermind of the 2002 sniper attacks in the Washington, D.C., area that left 10 dead, asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to stop his execution.The...

BATON ROUGE, La. (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...

One YouTube video can change the world. That's the concept Stanford University's 2009 Global Innovation Tournament is operating under — and the E.J. Ourso College of Business is challenging the University...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Using stimulus dollars as bait, President Barack Obama is coaxing states to rewrite education laws and cut deals with unions as they compete for $5 billion in school reform grants,...

After centuries of conflict, some members of the Catholic and Anglican Churches will soon get the change they are seeking. But the change will not come on a local level.Pope Benedict XVI announced last...

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 —...