The Student Government Senate will discuss Moodle maintenance, servicelearning and SG election codes tonight at its third meeting of thesemester. The Senate will meet at 6:30 p.m. on the third floor of...

Even though rival football fans think the University's campus smells like corn dogs, to Judith Sylvester, the campus smells like cigarettes.Sylvester, mass communication associate professor, founded the...

The computer screen doesn't have chicken pox.The dots covering the map of Baton Rouge on Family Watchdog, the popular sex offender-tracking Web site, mark the residences and workplaces of sex offenders...

Members of Student Government will host the first "Straight Talk" ofthe semester from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in Free Speech Alley today. SG President Stuart Watkins, members of the executive staff and...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Louisiana State University Tiger Band is set to be inducted this weekend into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame — the only college marching band to receive such an honor. The...

Tiger fans will be saying "Hello" to a new kind of concessions this football season — sushi. Local Japanese restaurant Hello Sushi will open three booths inside Tiger Stadium this fall, offering...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Sonia Sotomayor has taken her seat at the Supreme Court in front of a packed courtroom that included President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden. The ceremony Tuesday...

Baton Rouge is now ranked 36 for the worst traffic in the United States, according to a recent Inrix study. The study, which takes into account the first half of 2009, found 64 of the 100 most populated...

In a message sent to Manship School of Mass Communication students this afternoon, Dean Jack Hamilton formally addressed his recent decision to resign."When I came to the school in 1992 I had a brand new...

The former chief executive at Louisiana's state-backed insurance company lost a move Tuesday to have his criminal trial moved to Jefferson Parish, as a judge ruled instead that he will stand trial next...

MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Fred is continuing to strengthen in the eastern Atlantic, while Tropical Storm Linda is moving slowly far out over the Pacific. Fred's maximum sustained winds increased...

THIBODAUX — Nearly $170,000 is headed for distribution among six Nicholls State University programs from the board that oversees Louisiana's higher education.The Board of Regents awarded a half-dozen...