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Davis’ estate bequeaths $100,000 to military museum

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The North Louisiana Military Museum has received the largest monetary donation in its history from the estate of the late Ruston Leader Executive Sports Editor Emeritus O.K. “Buddy” Davis.

The estate has donated $100,000 to the museum, city and museum officials announced Friday.

The museum also received some of Davis’ late father’s World War II memorabilia.

Former Ruston Leader Publish Rick Hohlt, the executor of Davis’ estate, presented Ruston Mayor Ronny Walker and Museum Director Ernie Stevens with a $94,500 check in a brief ceremony at the museum Friday morning.

Remember a tragic, uplifting day

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Come Christmas Day, it will have been eight months since an F3 tornado ripped through Ruston, leaving two people dead and causing millions of dollars in damage. Nothing will ever

Happy Thanksgiving, from the Pilgrims

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Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, the forgotten holiday. What’s that, you say? School’s out, relatives are getting together, the frozen-turkey bin at the grocery store is empty and the Macy’s Day Thanksgiving

What's in my name? Just an old doll

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I am named after my aunt and my mother. The tale goes that my mother always wanted a Nancy Doll (they came from a line of Depression-era storybooks), so when

Now it's time for shed founder to rest

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I don’t remember the first time I met Beulah Laster, other than it was during the late Mayor Elton Pody’s administration back in the 1980s. But I remember precisely when

Great Uncle Rab and Veterans Day

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For as long as I can remember, my grandmother kept a small, framed picture of her older brother on her dresser. Erasmus Gale Cross, Rab for short, was the second

Campus shooting: Call it what it is

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So let’s talk about school shootings. Not the active shooter variety, in which a gunman randomly fires at everybody in his path. But the kind where an individual somehow gets

Justice comes to murderer, victims

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The next person who tells you justice is totally blind wasn’t sitting in the courtroom when 3rd Judicial District Judge Bruce Hampton sentenced John Nichols to two consecutive life terms

Winds of change blow toward jury

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The Lincoln Parish Police Jury may be on the verge of its biggest turnover in 15 years. So far, there are five new faces on the governing body and two

Voters, you’ve got this; the end is near

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Lincoln Parish voters, you’ve got this. You’ve endured months of robo calls and pulled reams of fliers out of your mailboxes. If you live in Police Jury District 7, you