Long-standing plans to build a new $400 million arena on the LSU campus took a step forward Thursday, with the creation of a new subdistrict that would collect a 1-cent tax on sales at the facility.

Scoring only one goal in Monday’s B-7 Subdistrict soccer match with Scottsbluff (6-11), the Stars had to play impeccable defense to advance. “We had a number of opportunities to score and we just ...