NEW YORK (AP) — A nation, a workplace, an ethnicity, a passion, an outsized personality. The people who comprise these things, who fawn or rail against them, are behind Merriam-Webster's 2014...

WASHINGTON (AP) A gathering of black congressional staffers and other Capitol employees stood silently on the House steps Thursday and raised their hands in the air to protest the killing of unarmed black...

WASHINGTON (AP) Swapping crisis for compromise, the House narrowly approved $1.1 trillion in government-wide spending Thursday night after President Barack Obama and Republicans joined forces to override...

Dante Cunningham's basketball exile is over. The New Orleans Pelicans signed Cunningham to give them some much-needed depth at forward and said he would be available Thursday night on the road against...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) The state of Louisiana agrees with gay rights activists about one thing: asking the U.S. Supreme Court to take the rare step of hearing an appeal of Louisiana's ban on same-sex marriages...

WASHINGTON (AP) Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana is heading toward her Saturday runoff against Republican congressman Bill Cassidy with almost no financial help from outside allies. How disparate...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) Democrats have filed ethics complaints against Republican Senate candidate Bill Cassidy, alleging he misrepresented his medical work for the LSU hospital system. Complaints were filed...

WASHINGTON (AP) The Justice Department will conduct a federal investigation into the chokehold death of an unarmed black man after a grand jury in New York City declined to indict the white police officer...

It’s Saturday night in homes across Louisiana and TV sets are tuned to the LSU game.  Fans get excited as the game unfolds.  And the adrenaline doesn’t stop at halftime as they head...

Patrons of Louisiana State University’s campus may notice something different about the University’s holiday tree this year. It’s not a yuletide fir tree.  And forget the tree stands. ...