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UConn mourns stabbing death of football player – 1:20 p.m.

By Associated Press
October 19, 2009

STORRS, Conn. (AP) — Less than 12 hours after celebrating his team's homecoming victory over Louisville, Connecticut football coach Randy Edsall was at a hospital identifying the body of one of the...

Games on social networking sites gaining popularity

Increasing numbers of students are logging on to their Facebook or MySpace accounts to play new forms of games designed to run on social networking sites.  The reactions are mixed, but the revenue...

Tiger Girls featured in Carrie Underwood music video

Three Tiger Girls were chosen to be dancers in the new Carrie Underwood music video for the song "Cowboy Casanova," which topped Country Music Television's "Top 20 Countdown" for Oct. 16.Lauren Hammond,...

University, state face $1.93 billion budget shortfall

By Ryan Buxton
Staff Writer
October 19, 2009

The University and the state face difficult times ahead because of a $1.93 billion budget shortfall and a complicated economic climate which makes financial revision difficult, a panel of budgetary experts...

La. graduation rate falls – 1:10 p.m.

By Associated Press
October 19, 2009

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana suffered the biggest drop in its public high school graduation rate of any state in the Southern region over a five-year period, a new report says. State officials...

AgCenter to develop blueberry Web site

By Ryan Buxton
Staff Writer
October 19, 2009

Blueberries have long filled pies and freshened muffens, but now the juicy fruits are moving online and into a virtual world with the help of the LSU AgCenter.A $518,000 grant from the U.S. Department...

Students listen to Blaine Grimes, financial education coordinator, talk about money matters Saturday as part of the Multicultural Student Leadership Conference.

Annual conference draws more diversity

By Emily Holden
Contributing Writer
October 18, 2009

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...

Festival goers check out a tent of children’s books during the Louisiana Book Festival on Saturday in front of the Louisiana State Capitol building.

Seventh La. Book Festival held

By Ryan Buxton
Staff Writer
October 18, 2009

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...

Gambling revenue down in Louisiana

By Ryan Buxton
Staff Writer
October 18, 2009

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...

Females account for most of Health Center STD tests

By Sarah Lawson
Contributing Writer
October 18, 2009

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...

LSUPD officer Daniel Richardson demonstrates a communication headset Thursday.

Are we ready for a school shooting?

By Lindsey Meaux
Contributing Writer
October 18, 2009

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...

 

Victims, supporters march against domestic violence

By Mary Walker Baus
Staff Writer
October 18, 2009

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...