The Student Union held the grand opening ceremony of the first floor lounge Wednesday afternoon, announcing the anticipated final name for the new first-floor area."This is officially the Live Oak Lounge,"...

BANGKOK (AP) — For the first time, an experimental vaccine has prevented infection with the AIDS virus, a watershed event in the deadly epidemic and a surprising result. Recent failures led many...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The troubled basin of the Mississippi River is set to receive a $320 million boost from the Agriculture Department. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack was announcing Thursday that...

Student Government is hosting its annual bus trip to the Mississippi State football game this weekend.About 260 students with 10 chaperones will leave by bus at 3:30 a.m. Saturday for the six-hour trip...

MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Nora is weakening and has slowed down as it spins far out in the Pacific. The storm's maximum sustained winds have decreased to 50 mph (85 kph) early Thursday. Additional...

Michael Bellocq grew up visiting the local video store with his father to rent movies. Now he is surrounded by them.Bellocq, history junior and a manager at Video USA on Lee Drive, rents movies so he won't...

AUSTELL, Ga. (AP) — As floodwaters around Atlanta began to recede, residents were packing moving vans with furniture and commiserating about water-logged homes. "I'm toast," Penny Freeman, who moved...

College of Engineering Dean Richard Koubek recently requested the University terminate its industrial engineering program in 2012. Koubek, who is an industrial engineer himself, said he and the engineering...

Raising Cane's founder Todd Graves will speak at the kick-offevent for the Stephenson Entrepreneurship Institute fellows programtoday. Graves will speak about his successes in business and give advice...

University retention rates have increased steadily since 1987. About 58.9 percent of the 2002 freshman class graduated within six years -- an almost 20 percent increase, from 39.4 percent, since the 1987...

Following the surrender of the Confederate Army, two captured Confederate cannons were gifted to campus from the University's first superintendent, Col. William Tecumseh Sherman. The cannons remain outside...

The LSU Student Union will hold its Grand Opening today from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. on the first floor of the Union. Union officials will cut the ribbon to officially complete Phase I of construction at 3:30...