Winning the national championship results in a big payday for LSU Football Coach Ed Orgeron. Jeff Palermo has the story…

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The New Orleans Saints are going to court to keep hundreds of emails from being unearthed showing the team’s executives advised the Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans in doing PR damage control, as they are accused of helping the in the church’s “pattern and practice of concealing” evidence of sex abuse.  The team has responded saying the advice was simple and never wavering. Be direct, open and fully transparent, while making sure that all law enforcement agencies were alerted.

The man accused of setting fire to three predominately black congregation churches in St. Landry Parish will have a change of plea hearing. Holden Matthews previously pleaded not guilty to state and federal arson and hate crime charges. Ciolino says a plea deal will reduce Matthews’ federal sentence and keep him out of a state penitentiary…
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Matthews next court date is February 10th.

Northwestern State’s online general studies program has been ranked as the second-best in the country. Executive Director of Academic Advising at Northwestern, Steve Hicks, says the online general studies program provides a lot of flexibility for a student, many of them over the age of 24…
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Hicks says the general studies program is an appropriate field for those who have an employer that requires a degree for upward mobility.