By Matt Vines August 05, 2025 ZACHARY – Copper Mill Elementary School science teacher Regena Hartley Beard was approached with an “opportunity” 11 years ago by her principal. Beard was going to be teaching a robotics class. “I had never touched a robot in my life,” Beard said. “I liked how my principal worded that – ‘an opportunity – but he was right, it changed my career path. I’m super grateful for that opportunity, even if I didn’t think it was one at the time.” Beard is s

By Matt Vines October 20, 2025 WASHINGTON D.C. -- The LSU Shreveport baseball team, the first-ever college baseball squad to put together a perfect season, were feted like royalty Monday at the White House and the U.S. Capitol. The Pilots rubbed elbows with President Donald Trump, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and other U.S. and Louisiana dignitaries throughout the day. LSUS and LSU baseball won their respective national titles as the eyes of the college baseball world we

By Matt Vines October 09, 2025 SHREVEPORT -- For the first time in at least three decades and perhaps ever, the head coach of the nationally renowned LSUS Debate team is someone who didn’t attend the university or compete in its program. Well, sort of. Lindsay Duede donned the Drury University red as a national championship debater, but she found her home in LSUS debate circles as she plunged deep into debate tournaments while her eliminated teammates headed back to their Mis