Picture this — Washington, D.C.,1973. It’s a chilly bleak January morning and thousands are standing outside the steps of the Supreme Court waiting to hear the fate of millions...

   High expectations surround the LSU baseball team as new head coach Smoke Laval leads the Tigers, who are ranked as high as fifth, into the 2002 season. LSU and Laval began spring practice...

Good as Gold: The awards     Less than three weeks before opening ceremonies of the 2002 Winter Olympics, Australia took home the gold at the 59th Annual Golden Globe Awards on Sunday. Five...

   In the near-packed 1,200-seat Union Theater, African Americans outnumbered every other race to hear Kweisi Mfume, president and chief executive officer of the NAACP. However, Mfume’s...

   Award show season has begun, and so has the confusion that abounds when movies that the average person hasn’t heard of win many of the awards. At Sunday’s Golden Globe Awards,...

   Although nothing is proposed or confirmed, plans for a new Alex Box Stadium and accompanying women’s softball field are in the works. Athletic Director Skip Bertman said plans are...

    For those of you who chose to leave our lovely state for the New Year, you missed a rare occurrence — south Louisiana got snow.    For those of you who stayed, you...

    As the spring semester starts and thousands of fresh faces grace the LSU campus, the Tiger baseball team welcomed its own newcomers as they began battling for starting roles in...

   Beware Lady Tigers.    That is the message head coach Sue Gunter is trying to convey to her team as the No. 24 Lady Tigers venture to Lexington, Ky., to take on the Southeastern...

   Many can imagine a musician or a comedian having a “Why be normal?” sign on his car or in his office, but a priest? However, this is exactly what Than Vu, the head pastor...

    Louisiana politics are bizarre, and Wayne Parent can prove it. A Baton Rouge native and graduate of LSU, Parent, chair of the political science department, spoke Tuesday to the LSU Academy...

   Angi Burns is getting out. The 1999 graduate plans to leave her entry-level Houston consulting job in May. She is happy to go. “Things can’t get any worse than here,”...