Southeastern Louisiana beat Southern, 8-5, tonight at Lee-Hines Field to hand the Jaguars their fourth consecutive loss. SLU (12-1) added two insurance runs in the ninth to help secure the...

Wearing a bandage on what LSU coach Les Miles said was a broken left hand, wide receiver Terrance Toliver apologized to his teammates, coaches, family and fans for his role in a fight at Reggie's...

LAFAYETTE - Five straight non-winning seasons and four consecutive first-round exits from the conference tournament were among the factors that led University of Louisiana at Lafayette officials to...

JEFFERSON PARISH, LA (WAFB) - A company accused of scamming money and furniture from dozens of customers is out of business.A district court judge in Jefferson Parish not only shut down The Movers...

BATON ROUGE, LA (AP) - The campaign of Democratic Senate candidate Charlie Melancon has filed an ethics complaint against Republican U.S. Sen. David Vitter. Jeff Giertz, a spokesman for...

OPELOUSAS, LA (AP) - A sanity hearing is scheduled Thursday for a 50-year-old woman accused of running over her 11-year-old son several times on a country road near Grand Coteau last year. Sandra...

email BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - Cleaning the clutter from the canals around East Baton Rouge Parish could take a while, even if you call and make a complaint. One man on Sheldon Drive says he called...

BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - A woman has been arrested and a man is wanted for his role in a fire believed to be caused by a meth lab Saturday...

LAKE CHARLES, LA (WAFB) - A Lake Charles woman is facing child cruelty charges after her 9-year-old stepson was found living in squalid living conditions. The boy weighed 38 pounds when he was...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A former New Orleans police detective has been charged with helping conceal a conspiracy by police to cover up a deadly police shooting of unarmed civilians after Hurricane...

BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - Crews began the final process Tuesday morning of pulling down the original Alex Box Stadium. The stadium was named for Simeon Alex Box, an LSU letterman in 1942 who was...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A Texas-based nonprofit group that has been searching for a missing oil executive in New Orleans has found a body. Tim Miller, president and founder of Texas Equusearch, said the...

BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - The prosecutor in the trial of a man accused of killing a 2-year-old boy is confident testimony will begin this week. Jury selection in the first-degree murder trial of...

BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - A police officer found 75 pounds of marijuana in a truck when the driver was pulled over Sunday morning. According to the Baton Rouge Police Department, the officer stopped...

BATON ROUGE, LA (AP) - The Louisiana Office of Group Benefits has awarded a contract to Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana. It's a move the insurer said will add up to 200 jobs in...

OPELOUSAS, LA (WAFB) - It's been over a month since the New Orleans Saints were crowned Super Bowl champions, but the celebrations honoring the players continue as Opelousas recognizes a hometown...

CLINTON, LA (WAFB) - Louisiana's first ever black district attorney passed away Sunday night. Charles Shropshire made history when he won the office in East and West Feliciana parishes by a...

View all » Todd O'Neill will be the headlining act at the Second Annual Independence Sicilian Heritage Festival on Friday, March 12, 2010. O'Neil will be the final performer taking the...

NEW ORLEANS — One month after the New Orleans Saints’ first Super Bowl championship, the team and city were holding yet another party. It took 43 years for the Saints to win their first...

The second week of spring practice for University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s Ragin’ Cajuns football team got under way Monday afternoon. Light rain showers earlier in the day and the...

email BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - LSU officials commented Monday about a weekend bar fight in Tigerland in which two LSU athletes were arrested. Football stand-out Terrence Toliver and basketball...

NEW YORK (AP) - A police officer in Brooklyn has fatally shot a man who the NYPD says was brandishing a fake pistol near a school. Police said they received a 911 call Monday afternoon from a parent...

NEW ORLEANS — Darren Collison had 16 points and a career-high 20 assists, and the New Orleans Hornets snapped a four-game losing streak with a 135-131 victory over the Golden State Warriors on...

THIBODAUX — Riding its longest winning streak since 2001, the Nicholls State baseball team will try for its ninth consecutive win when LSU-Alexandria visits at 6 p.m. today at Ray Didier Field....

LAFAYETTE — When one thinks of Abbeville High boys basketball, great things do not come to mind. But this year’s Wildcats are changing that each time they take to the court. Last week,...

KATY, Texas — Lamar earned the top seed for the Southland Conference women’s basketball tournament, which begins with quarterfinals today at the Merrell Center. Lamar (23-7) will face...

Tulane women’s basketball coach Lisa Stockton was named the Conference USA Coach of the Year in voting announced Monday. Stockton, who also won the award in 2007, has led Tulane to four C-USA...

NEW ORLEANS — Xavier turned five steals into baskets during a late 13-2 burst Monday that rallied Xavier to a 56-51 victory over LSU-Shreveport in the championship game of the Gulf Coast...

LAFAYETTE — After opening the 25th-annual Louisiana Classics with a modest 7-over par round of 295 in the first round, the LSU men’s golf team fired its second-lowest round of the season...

By MATTHEW BARAKATAssociated Press Writer ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) - There were no obvious signs of trouble when gunman John Patrick Bedell approached a Pentagon security checkpoint Thursday night. But...

By JENNIFER PELTZAssociated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) - After saying goodbye on concert stages and online video streams, Lil Wayne had nothing to add as he was sentenced Monday to a year in jail...

By KEN THOMAS and STEPHEN MANNINGAssociated Press Writers WASHINGTON (AP) - Toyota, dogged by millions of recalls and claims that it still has not fixed its safety problems, took its strongest step...

GONZALES — The City Council awarded a $3.5 million contract Monday to L. King Co. to replace one of its sewage pumping stations. City Clerk Clay Stafford said the project calls for building a...

LSU beat Georgia. Now the Tigers want to copy the Bulldogs. At the Southeastern Conference tournament this week in Nashville, LSU is hoping to duplicate Georgia’s unlikely run to the 2008...

DONALDSONVILLE — The Ascension Parish School Board approved nine architectural firms to handle a series of school improvement projects over the next five years, said Chad Lynch, director of...

After losing three games over the weekend to Nicholls State and falling to 1-5 for the season, it would be easy for Southern baseball coach Roger Cador to reach for the panic button. But Cador was...

LSU men’s basketball forward Dennis Harris will not miss any games after he was cited by police following a bar fight early Sunday morning, LSU basketball coach Trent Johnson said Monday. LSU...

LSU outlasted the Georgia Bulldogs 50-48 , with the final shot coming from Bo Spencer with 19 seconds remaining. Spencer’s jump shot hit the bottom of the net and the Tigers played defense for...

BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - A 17-year-old was wounded during an attempted robbery Monday evening. According to reports, the teen was walking in the 3600 block of N. Acadian shortly after 7 p.m. when he...