BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Fewer than 4,000 doses of swine flu vaccine have been doled out to Louisiana patients. That's less than one-20th of the amount of vaccine that has been shipped to health care...
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — It's not the eye-popping largesse of recent years, but Louisiana is expected to have a $47 million surplus leftover when last year's financial books are closed.
State budget...
Summer weather fosters fleas, and the summer was massively successful for flea populations along the Gulf. "You could call this tumultuous," said Pat Stockstill, director of business development...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans' most famous street is a nightly swirl of bright neon and happy tourists strolling with a beverage in hand.
A blend of jazz joints, strip clubs, bars and restaurants,...
Legions of book lovers came together Saturday to discuss and promote literature at the seventh annual Louisiana Book Festival.Engaged festival-goers and 190 authors participated in panel discussions and...
Though nationwide gambling revenue was down for the 2009 fiscal year, Louisiana has endured one of the smallest decreases in the country, according to a study by the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of...
The number of students at the University with sexually transmitted diseases or infections is stable, according to Student Health Center numbers, but female students account for much more of the total students...
On April 16, 2007, the single-most deadly shooting in the U.S. occurred on the Virginia Tech campus, leaving 27 students, five professors and the shooter dead.More than two years later, LSU and several...
Bonita Alston looked like all the other supporters at the "Take Back the Night" event Sunday, listening to music, eating free food and wearing a free event T-shirt, but her reasons for attending were not...
Wilishia Morgan stared into her lap at a hemp bracelet she was stringing with beads of a few different colors and realized she was learning a lesson about diversity. Morgan attended the annual Multicultural...
An English course focusing on the poetic foundations of hip-hop is among the 46 courses offered to students during wintersession 2009. The poetry class — English 2027 — will look at the style,...
NEW ORLEANS — On his first visit to the Crescent City since taking office, President Barack Obama spoke to throngs of Louisiana residents about the continuing recovery of both the city and the country.Obama...
