Sources say LSU will remove the interim tag from Verge Ausberry and the New Iberia native will be the permanent athletics director at LSU. Jeanne Burns has more
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A 46-year-old preschool teacher receives a Good Samaritan Award from the Slidell Police Department for helping cops chase down a suspected shoplifter. Jeff Palermo has the story…
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Not only does LSU have a new president, but the Baton Rouge campus also has a new chancellor again. The positions of president and chancellor were combined in 2012, but it was new president Wayde Rousse’s desire to separate the roles again…
The LSU Board of Supervisors appointed Rousse as president and one of the other three finalists, Alabama provost James Dalton has been named chancellor of the flagship campus. Dalton will also oversee the AgCenter, two health science centers and the Pennington Biomedical Research Center.
Rousse says there is a lot that needs to be done, especially with the LSU System adding the UNO campus. He says it makes sense to have two people at the top of the organizational chart….
Rousse says he first approached Dalton about being the executive vice president of LSU after Dalton interviewed for the president’s job on Friday…
It’s to be determined on when these two men will officially take on their new roles.
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New Iberia native Verge Ausberry is expected to be formally named the permanent athletics director at LSU. Last week, the former Tigers linebacker and longtime athletics administrator was named the interim A-D, but LSU’s new leadership wants Ausberry to have the job going forward. Ausberry says he has already hit the ground running.
Ausberry says he has not established a timeline for hiring a new coach. He said on Tiger Rag Radio that they will let the process work itself out, meaning it is not necessary to have a coach in place before the December early signing period for high school recruits or the January transfer portal window.
He says until a new coach is in place, interim Frank Wilson has full control over the program.
LSU is looking for a new coach after Brian Kelly was fired last week. A reason why it did not work out for Kelly is that he was not heavily involved in every aspect of the program.
Ausberry says the next head coach at LSU must fit in with what they do, be a leader, and manage NIL, recruiting, and practices.
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A 46-year-old preschool teacher has received the Slidell Police Department’s Citizen Award for helping officers catch a suspected shoplifter. Police Chief Daniel Seuzeneau says Lesli Smith offered a ride to Sergeant Jeff Kahrs after the suspect fled a department store in a getaway car…
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Officer Kahrs accepted the ride and coached Smith during the police chase. At the same time, Kahrs was telling other patrol units, where the suspects were headed and they were eventually caught. Seuzeneau says once Smith committed her good deed, she returned to her role as private citizen
Smith is a life long Slidell resident and the mother of three says she was glad to help her town’s police department that works so hard to keep their community safe…
A 34-year-old woman from Florida is accused of taking items from Dillard’s store and her boyfriend, a 43-year-old man in Biloxi, was arrested for assisting in the theft as he was the getaway driver. The female was also charged for being in possession of meth.
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Even though Democrats were expected to do well in last night’s elections, the way they dominated will certainly set off alarm bells in the Republican Party. Shreveport-based political analyst Scott Hughes says in Virginia, not only did Democrat Abigail Spanberger win by almost 15 points, but Democrats made gains throughout the entire state.
Hughes says Democrats also did well in a pair of states that traditionally vote Republican, including a couple races in Georgia in which Democrats not only won, but won in blowout fashion.
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Hughes says Democrats also gained state senate seats in the state just to the east of us.
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It will mark the first time in 13 years in which Republicans will not have at least a two-thirds majority in the Mississippi state senate.