ANGOLA, La. (AP) — A Louisiana State Penitentiary chase team is following a trail in the Tunica Hills Thursday for an inmate believed to have escaped from his assigned job of picking up litter on...

The Patrick F. Taylor Foundation awarded a $220,000 grant to The Department of Genetics at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Medicine. The grant will fund two medical research programs for...

A group of scholars at the University are studying issues related to sustainability along the Gulf Coast in an effort called the Coastal Sustainability Studio, according to a University news release. Funded...

A University Ph.D. student in the Department of Information Systems and Decision Sciences was selected as part of a 40 student group to attend the International Conference on Information Systems 2009 Doctoral...

Tiger football returns to Death Valley this Saturday, bringing with it the ongoing controversy over the "Oh-Wee-Oh" chant.Student Government will distribute stickers reading "Oh-Wee-Oh Tigers" outside...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal has created a panel to publicize the importance of the 2010 census to Louisiana. The Louisiana Complete Count Committee will be overseen by Secretary of...

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...

Student Government plans to distribute stickers reading "Oh Wee OhTigers" during the first LSU home game Saturday. SG Director of Athletics Melissa Hart said the stickers are meant to curbstudents' profane...

Baton Rouge has gained notoriety for its food, football and — in recent years — traffic.During the course of the first half of 2009, Baton Rouge moved on the congestion rank to No. 36 in a...