Search results for

The McNeese State University performing arts department will present a free faculty recital on Oct. 4.Featured will be bass-baritone Bret Smithey.The…

A woman and her husband are dead following an apparent murder-suicide at their home near Covington late Friday, according to authorities.The…

More than a decade ago, The Economist magazine called Africa, "the hopeless continent," but a more recent cover story reads, "Africa Rising." The U.S. foreign assistance agency, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, has supported the turn around. The group's CEO Daniel Yohannes speaks with host Michel Martin.

Apple underestimated demand, so the iPhone 5 has quickly sold out.

The Los Angeles Times recently reported that — from 1970 to 1991-- the Boy Scouts of America covered up child sex abuse. L.A. Times reporter Jason Felch talks with host Michel Martin about the investigation of more than a thousand confidential files. Advisory: This conversation may not be comfortable for all listeners.

Tangipahoa Parish public schools students will see a day added to the school year to make up days missed because of Hurricane Isaac.The Daily Star reports…

The president of the College Board, which commissions the test, said these numbers should be a "call to action."

In a back-and-forth about CNN's decision to report details from slain Ambassador Chris Stevens' journal, State spokesman Philippe Reines and reporter Michael Hastings let loose with some blue words.

A leading group of pediatricians is out with a sterner warning than ever about trampolines. They say the risk of injury to kids remains too high, despite some safety measures. Use of trampolines at home "is strongly discouraged."

The new drug reversed changes in blood vessels that usually lead kids with the rare genetic disease progeria to have heart attacks and strokes. Research on the toxic protein responsible for progeria is also changing scientists' understanding of how normal cells age.