LSU President William Tate IV has led the university since July 2021. He sat down recently with Deputy Editor Arnessa Garrett and columnist Faimon Roberts to discuss his tenure so far and what’s next for the state’s flagship university. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity.
Faimon Roberts
In July, two Washington Parish sheriff's deputies were called to the home of an 83-year-old man who was struggling with depression and had threatened to harm himself.
With just about three weeks to go in the race to be East Baton Rouge's next mayor-president, it's all about second place.
Sunday will mark the last day in office for Pineville Mayor Rich Dupree.
Late Monday afternoon, a St. Tammany Parish jury convicted Slidell pastor John Raymond of cruelty to juveniles for "discipline" he meted while headmaster at Lakeside Christian Academy, a school he founded. The jury — in notoriously conservative and religious St. Tammany — deliberated only about an hour before deciding that he was guilty as charged.
On a hilltop a few miles east of Leesville in Vernon Parish stands a church. It’s a small red-brick building, with an adjoining Sunday school wing and an asphalt parking lot.
A grave marker in Castor Baptist Church cemetery in Vernon Parish.
