 BY DOUG GRAHAM | Staff writer On Friday, the LSU women’s basketball team will head to the White House to celebrate its NCAA championship season with President Joe Biden. The squad opened its triumphal tour of the nation’s capital on Thursday with a fête by the legislative branch of the federal government, including a rare appearance on the floor of the U.S. House. “This has been really crazy,” forward LaDazhia Williams said about the hubbub surrounding LSU's first championship win.
Less than a week after he graduated from the University Laboratory School, a local teen was reported missing after he went overboard in the Bahamas. The U.S. Coast Guard and local authorities were searching late Thursday for Cameron Robbins, who fell off a boat Wednesday during a sunset cruise near Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas. He had graduated from the Lab School on Sunday. "Our school community is struggling right now but hoping for the very best," said Lab School baseball coach Justin Morgan in an email.
State Sen. Fred Mills said he has no regrets after casting a decisive vote to kill a bill that would have banned health care for transgender children. The bill he voted down sought to bar access to puberty blockers, hormone treatments and gender-affirming surgeries for people younger than 18. “I think these guys are just trying to practice medicine as legislators,” Mills, R-Parks, said in an interview, referring to lawmakers who support such legislation. | 
