Vice Chancellor and Athletic Director Joe Alleva advised students Friday on how to be a successful leader in a world filled with adversity, scandal and economic pressures as part of the Flores MBA Program Distinguished Speaker Series. Alleva said h...

Students coming from different states to study at the University still consist of almost a quarter of the student population, despite a spike in their tuition and a decrease in their financial aid. Nearly 2,300 current undergraduate and graduate st...

Students spent Sunday morning horsing around to raise money for disabled children. Horses and ponies sped around barrels and poles at BREC's Farr Park Equestrian Center in the American Collegiate Horsemen's Association's Speed Event to raise funds fo...

When students return from Mardi Gras break, Tiger Trails will have a modified Night Bus B route that serves more areas. The new route will serve downtown, the center of campus, Greek Row, Perkins Road overpass and Eugene Street. The route's exp...

About 175 runners braved the cold Friday night to participate in the 4th Annual Keep the Pace 5K Run to remember former LSU graduate Charlotte Murray Pace and to benefit her namesake MBA scholarship. LSU's chapter of the National Association of Women...

SHREVEPORT (AP) and - The Caddo Parish Commission has approved an ordinance banning the selling, trading or donation of animals from roadsides and on commercial parking lots. The Times reports that Caddo Parish Animal Control will enforce the new law. V...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) and - New Orleans police say officers on Carnival parade crowd patrol chased a teen who was acting suspiciously and found that he had a gun belonging to the Jefferson Parish sheriff's office. Police spokeswoman Remi Braden says the 16-y...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) and - A man from Uzbekistan who pleaded guilty Friday to plotting to kill President Barack Obama with an automatic rifle claimed he was acting at the direction of an Islamic terror group in his home country. Authorities said Ulugbe...

MOUNT HEALTHY, Ohio (AP) and - Several dozen animals have found temporary shelter after Ohio firefighters rescued at least 60 pets from a house fire in a Cincinnati suburb. Authorities responding to the Thursday morning fire found a menagerie of about...

SAO PAULO (AP) and - A Brazilian airliner safely made a forced landing after a passenger had a 'psychotic attack,' entered the cockpit and assaulted a pilot, crew members and passengers who tried to subdue him, witnesses said. The TAM Airlines jet was...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) and - Greek lawmakers on Monday approved harsh new austerity measures demanded by bailout creditors to save the debt-crippled nation from bankruptcy, after rioters in central Athens torched buildings, looted shops and clashed with riot...

LONDON (AP) and - The British Cabinet minister responsible for the media says the press must face tougher penalties for breaches of standards in the wake of the tabloid phone-hacking scandal. Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt told the BBC on Sunday that n...

Students will no longer have to wait in long lines at the beginning of each semester to sign a lab rules agreement contract for the computer-based testing center. Students were required to sign the agreement each semester, but the Office of Assessm...

Love is in the air this week, and the Student Health Center wants students to be aware of the responsibilities that can challenge love. 'Sexual Responsibility Week aims to highlight all the things that relate to choosing to be sexually active,' sai...

Teachers from around Louisiana felt like students Saturday as they created robots and rockets and played with grappling cups in a workshop presented by NASA education specialists. Steve Culivan, an aerospace education specialist from the John C. St...

The printer of the University's Legacy magazine is refusing to publish the February issue due to an article about sexual fetishes that the company deemed was against its values. Interstate Printing and ' Graphics, a full-service production facility ba...

Campus Life is making efforts to bring a high-profile guest speaker like Steven Spielberg, Drew Brees or Bill Clinton to speak at the University in April. Those names were listed as possible opt...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) and - A suburban New Orleans middle school has taken down a display of students' political cartoons after several parents complained about images of President Barack Obama, including one that appeared to show a photo of him with a bullet ...

BENTON, La. (AP) and - Authorities are looking for an east Texas man missing since a boating crash at the Red River Marina in south Bossier Parish. Sheriff's Office spokesman Bill Davis says the missing man is 63-year-old Dan Stanley of Bivins, Texas....

OZARK, Mo. (AP) and - A British armored car guard suspected of driving off with a fortune worth $1.5 million back in 1993 has been captured in rural Missouri, where he had been working as a cable guy and raising a son who apparently knew nothing of his fa...