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A legend leaves us

The earthly inkwell has gone dry. The scribe has taken his quill and gone to his heavenly home. Ruston Daily Leader Executive Sports Editor Emeritus O.K. “Buddy” Davis passed away

Hurricane brings tournament to Ruston

Hurricane Barry has given the Ruston Sports Complex an opportunity to get one more tournament under its belt before the 2019 Dixie Youth Baseball World Series comes to town July

The ‘million-dollar hole’

The Lincoln Parish Police Jury learned last week it will be facing a roughly $1 million shortfall in general fund revenue this year and perhaps for multiple years to come.

Lights for Liberty

Lawrence Higginbotham, of Ruston, right, lights a candle for Suelynne Mickey, of Pineville, during Friday night’s Lights for Liberty vigil sponsored by residents concerned about treatment of immigrant children at

DWI, drug possession arrests made

Name: Albert Dean Zehr Age: 32 Address: 366 Hogan Road, Choudrant Arrested for: Probation violation Date of arrest: July 9 Time of arrest: 4:30 p.m. Place of arrest: Lincoln Parish

Leader's Buddy Davis dies at 72

Update, July 16: donation link corrected

Murder suspect arrested

A Ruston man is in the Lincoln Parish Detention Center today charged with second-degree murder in Thursday’s shooting death of Tyrea Davis.

City police arrested Price Jerome Jackson, 21, at approximately 6 p.m. Friday, Deputy Police Chief Clint Williams said in a press release.

No other details of Jackson’s capture were available.

Officers were called to the 600 block of Martin Luther King Avenue around 10:36 a.m. Thursday and found Davis suffering from at least one gunshot would. He was transported to Northern Louisiana Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.

Hoping ‘gown’ can help ‘town’

GRAMBLING — Grambling’s City Council gave its approval Tuesday night to introduce an ordinance that could start the process of allowing the city to receive assistance from Grambling State University regarding fire protection services.

That ordinance request will be introduced at the council’s next meeting on Aug. 8. The council approved a motion Tuesday to move the regularly scheduled August meeting from Aug. 1 to Aug. 8 because some members will be out of town on Aug. 1.

Bennett makes reelection bid

Lincoln Parish Police Juror Bobby Bennett has announced his candidacy for reelection to the District 3 seat.

Bennett has served on the jury for 17 years.

“If reelected, I would like to start a program to cut overhanging limbs growing over the parish roads,” Bennett said. “I also, in this program, want to fix road shoulders where big trucks have traveled off the blacktop with their back wheels, causing a washout between the road and the shoulders.

Find thermocline to find crappie in hot weather

Once springtime slab slaying is done, some crappie fishermen hang it up for the year. However, others stick with it with good results, but you have to do it differently.

What about fishing for crappie this time of year when the weather turns super hot? Should you stay home under air conditioning or can you actually catch crappie when temperatures flirt with double digits and being on the lake up in the day brings with it a threat of heat stroke? Crappie fishermen who know never quit targeting their favorite fish; they catch them in hot weather, but they have to do it differently.