Two heavyweight contenders are now in the 2010 Senate race.Rep. Charlie Melancon, D-Napoleonville, announced Aug. 27 he will challenge incumbent Republican Sen. David Vitter in 2010 — a challenge...

A paper by Carol Carter, E.J. Orso College of Business instructor and associate director of the Stephenson Entrepreneurship Institute, was recently accepted for presentation in the International Conference...

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...

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...

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...

The approach of the annual flu season coupled with the lingering H1N1 pandemic has mobilized efforts in East Baton Rouge Parish to prepare for what officials expect to be a frantic season.East Baton Rouge...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Two more Louisiana residents have died as the result of swine flue, bringing the total of H1N1-related deaths in the state to six. The state Department of Health and Hospitals...

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...