Fresh off of winning a national championship in football, LSU Coach Ed Orgeron has agreed to a six-year contract extension worth an estimated 42-million dollars before bonuses. Tiger Rag Editor Ron Higgins doesn’t see the big-money contract slowing down Orgeron’s work ethic…
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The LSU Board of Supervisors will likely approve the contract at its next meeting.

And Orgeron’s alma mater is receiving praise today. Northwestern State’s online General Studies program has been ranked as the second-best in the country. Online-schools-report-do-com’s ranking is based on satisfaction, admission rate and median debt by program. N-S-U’s Director of Academic Advising Steve Hicks says the ranking should help with enrollment…
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The hunt for the killer of a gay black teen who was found near a lake in Angie two weeks ago continues, and the killing has grabbed the attention of the Southern Poverty Law Center.

17-year-old Ja’Quarius Taylor was found shot in the head only an hour after being reported missing by his mother. Washington Parish Sheriff’s chief deputy Mike Haley says its their primary focus.
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The SPLC is demanding no stone be left unturned in the case given what they say is the history of failure by law enforcement agencies in the Deep South to solve, or even investigate identity-based hate crimes.