The state transportation department plans to pick a location for a new Mississippi River Bridge in the Baton Rouge area by the end of this year. DOTD Secretary Glenn Ledet says they are looking at three different locations south of Baton Rouge in Iberville Parish. He says they are currently looking at environmental imp...

After winning their third straight Southland Conference championship last Wednesday, the McNeese men's basketball team learned of their position in the bracket yesterday. They're the No. 12 seed in the South Region and will face the fifth-seeded Vanderbilt Commodores Thursday afternoon in Oklahoma City. Cowboys head co...

One of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit against LSU over the use of public dollars to pay student athletes through revenue sharing explains the reasoning for the suit. Tiger Rag Executive Editor Todd Horne says the lawsuit is attempting to get clarity on whether public funds that LSU's athletic department pays to student-at...

LSU's 27-5 record earned them a number two seed in the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament. The Lady Tigers will host the first two rounds, starting on Friday against Jacksonville. The Lady Dolphins are Atlantic Sun champs and are 24-8. But they lost by 40 points or more when they played Florida and TCU during its nonco...

A court watchdog group in New Orleans is speaking out against a proposed constitutional amendment that would create a mechanism to allow the Senate to remove a judge or a district attorney upon the recommendation of the governor. Jesse Manley, the interim executive director of Court Watch NOLA, says the problem he has ...