Practice Makes Perfect

Local emergency response teams stage high school shooting

Roads were blocked, blank shots were fired and actors wept fake tears and bled fake blood as local law enforcement and emergency response teams staged a school-shooting and E.D. White Catholic High School yesterday morning to practice each agency’s role in the event that the incident should ever happen in Thibodaux. Full story

Colonel baseball says goodbye to 10 graduating seniors

The Nicholls baseball roster will be without ten names next season as outfielder Matt Richard, catcher Cody Dufrene, outfielder Mike Barba, shortstop Ray Eureste, pitcher Michael Baxter, infielder Adam Seal, and pitchers Jordan McCoy, Mike Suk, Kelby Langston and Kory Delange will finish their college careers this season. Full story

Insider tips for surviving the second weekend of Jazz Fest

Each year, droves of locals and out-of-towners clad in flip-flops and tank tops flock to the New Orleans Fairgrounds and Racetrack to experience what undoubtedly is one of the biggest musical attractions in the Big Easy: The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. Full story

Students should pursue internships during the summer

For the average college student, the summer normally means one of two things: a collection of sunburns and hangovers or proactivity by taking advantage of the scarce resource amidst the semester known as time, which allows the individual to carpe not only one, but several diems. Full story