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AHTD Director Scott Bennett speaks to the crowd gathered at the Arkansas/Louisiana state line for the ribbon cutting ceremony for I-49 between Texarkana and Shreveport.

OPINION: African-American neighborhoods are not expendable

By Michael Beyer January 25, 2016

African-American neighborhoods are as disposable today as they were in the ’50s to Louisiana transportation officials. In an effort to connect I-20 to I-49 in Shreveport, transportation officials...

LSU baseball players watch the begining of the game during the Tigers' 5-3 victory against Cal State Fullerton in the NCAA Men's College World Series on Tuesday, June 16, 2015 at the TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha.

Sports Briefs: LSU baseball ranked No. 11 in new poll

January 25, 2016

Tigers sit at No. 11 in Baseball America poll On Monday morning, the LSU baseball team received its lowest ranking of any preseason poll released thus far, but it is still one of the top four teams in...

Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. shakes hands with students after speaking at a campaign event on the campus of Iowa State University, Monday, Jan. 25, 2016, in Ames, Iowa. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

OPINION: Bernie’s in the lead…now what?

By David Schneider January 25, 2016

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is finally meeting and exceeding Hillary Clinton’s poll numbers in Iowa and New Hampshire. But if he wants to be America’s first democratic socialist president,...

Senior, Boris Arias, competes in the Tennis Invitational on Nov. 05 at the new Tennis Complex on Gourrier Ave.

LSU tennis teams come away with opposite results in their ITA Kickoff Weekend touraments

By Justin Talbot January 24, 2016

The No. 30 LSU men’s tennis team fell to No. 13 University of South Florida, 4-0, in the ITA Kickoff championship match in Tampa, Florida, on Sunday afternoon. The Tigers came one step short of advancing...

LSU junior Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake participates in the 60 meter dash prelimiaries during the Tigers' Track and Field Meet on Saturday, Jan. 16, 2015 in the B. Moore Track & C. Maddox Field House.

LSU track and field teams continue fast start in Conference Clash

By Jourdan Riley January 24, 2016

The LSU women’s and men’s track teams continued their fast start to the 2016 season in their two days of competition in the Conference Clash: Power Five Invitational at the Birmingham Crossplex...

OPINION: E-sports athletes should be given athletic scholarships

By Marc Stevens January 24, 2016

The stigma of the past says gamers are lazy losers with no lives living in their parents’ basements, but that has all been erased as gamers now compete on stages across the world in front of thousands...

LSU forward Ben Simmons (25) shoots for two over Alabama forward Michael Kessens (3) as LSU guard Tim Quarterman (55) and Alabama guard Retin Obasohan (32) battle underneath during an NCAA college basketball game, Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016, at Coleman Coliseum in Tuscaloosa, Ala. (Vasha Hunt/AL.com via AP) MAGS OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT

Simmons rises to the occasion to end road drought against Crimson Tide

By James Bewers January 24, 2016

At this point of the season, the LSU men’s basketball team has to be used to it. Seemingly every time the Tigers (12-7, 5-2 Southeastern Conference) step foot in an opposing team’s arena, stands...

LSU junior guard Jasmine Rhodes (10) leaps for the ball Thursday, Jan. 21, 2016, during the Lady Tigers' 48-44 loss against Arkansas in the PMAC.

Lady Tigers snap four-game losing streak against Georgia

By Jarrett Major January 24, 2016

The LSU women’s basketball team controlled the game from the start against Georgia in a 53-46 road victory on Sunday afternoon at Stegeman Coliseum in Athens, Georgia. The win was the first for LSU...

FILE - In this Dec. 15, 2014 file photo, Stacey Dash attends the "American Sniper" premiere in New York. Dash wrote on her website that BET lies to its viewers and promotes segregation. The dispute stemmed from Dash's "Fox & Friends" interview on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2016, when she was asked about the lack of black nominees for Academy Awards.The former "Clueless" star said that people need to make up their minds between segregation and integration, "and if we don't want segregation, then we need to get rid of channels like BET and the BET Awards and the (NAACP) Image Awards, where you're only rewarded if you're black." (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)

Opinion: Stacey Dash doesn’t understand segregation

By Garrett Hines January 24, 2016

Stacey Dash made comments last week causing many to cast her some major side-eye and consider revoking her “black card.” Last semester, I wrote a piece that angered LSU’s black community,...

FILE - This Jan. 21, 2016 file photo shows the Flint River near downtown Flint, Mich. City leaders are floating a shockingly high price to replace the city's water infrastructure damaged after the state’s disastrous decision in 2014 to use the Flint River as the city’s drinking water source without adding a chemical to control corrosion, which caused high levels of chloride from the river to react with iron in the pipes, causing lead to leach into water for a year and a half and contributing to a spike in child lead poisoning before city and state officials fully acknowledged the problem. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

OPINION: Media should pay attention to water crisis in Louisiana

By Michael Beyer January 24, 2016

The clean water crisis has focused on Flint, Michigan, but access to clean drinking water is both a national problem and a Louisiana one.  According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

Sophomore, Gabor Csonka, strikes the ball at the Tennis Invitational on Thursday, Nov. 05, 2015, at the new Tennis Complex on Gourrier Ave.

Men’s and women’s tennis advance in first round of ITA Kickoff Weekend tournaments

By Markus Hufner January 23, 2016

Both the LSU men’s and women’s tennis team advanced in the first round of their ITA Kickoff Weekend tournaments Saturday, getting one step closer to qualifying for the ITA National Indoor Championships. Two...

LSU sophomore swimmer Kara Kopcso gets ready to swim 400 yards on Saturday, Jan 31, 2015 meet against Rice, Houston and Tulane at the LSU natatorium.

LSU swimming and diving falls to Texas A&M in last home meet of the season

By Jarrett Major January 23, 2016

The LSU swimming and diving teams were unable to overcome Texas A&M in the final home meet of the season. The No. 19 LSU Lady Tigers (9-1, 2-1 Southeastern Conference) fell to the No. 6 Aggies (7-2,...