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The traditional barbecues of the Labor Day holiday have been replaced in many communities of southeast Louisiana with debris removal and damage…

Willis-Knighton Health Systems has donated $205,000 to Grambling State University.The News-Star reports that Grambling President Frank G. Pogue says the…

Louisiana's labor department is asking the federal government for $3.4 million to pay unemployed state residents to help with cleanup work after Hurricane…

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries plans to reopen the Lake Ramsey Wildlife Management Area in St. Tammany Parish today.Lake Ramsey had…

With ivory fetching about $1,000 a pound there are armies and militias from all sides of Africa's several civil wars killing the animals and harvesting their tusks.

The Obama campaign was hoping to make a splash with tens of thousands in a stadium, but they've scaled back plans because of weather.

Afghan officials are looking to stop the wave of "green on blue" attacks against coalition troops.

What's the best way to make the pleasure of eating a candy last? A team of Austrian researchers devises a simple method for observing how spherical candies dissolve.

An estimated 7.6-magnitude earthquake in Costa Rica raised alerts for the Pacific coasts of Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala and Peru.

Washington Monthly magazine is out with a new list of college rankings — and the usual suspects aren't at the head of the class. Host Michel Martin finds out why schools like Texas A&M University are beating out Harvard and Stanford. She speaks with editor Paul Glastris.