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MOVIE REVIEW

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“Knives Out” bills itself as a whodunit mystery, and to a degree it is, but the “it” in question isn’t what it appears to be. The advertising has let it be known that the film revolves around the death of wealthy mystery author Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer) from an apparent suicide.

This being a mystery movie, I went in ready to ask who killed Harlan and staged it to look like a suicide. At the very least, I really hoped that the movie wasn’t going to take the route where Harlan actually killed himself just to make idiots out of people who suspected murder.

Getting spaced out about Tech-NASA ties

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Views from the Boathouse

Louisiana Tech University continues to go where no other state schools have gone over the recent year — to new frontiers in outer space.

Cue the title theme music for “Star Trek.”

Tech has teamed with NASA multiple times in 2019 and has more in store for 2020.

The Louisiana Tech Chapter of the Sigma Xi Research Honor Society will host NASA senior scientist Dr. Compton James Tucker III for a free, open-to-the-public lecture in University Hall Room 134 at 3:30 p.m. on Feb. 17.

Tech engineering building opens

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Louisiana Tech University’s new Integrated Engineering and Science Building opened its doors for classes this past week, and students who walked through those doors quickly saw that Tech’s largest academic structure is not just another classroom building.

“When people see the facility, it’s obvious there’s nothing else like it on campus,” College of Engineering and Science Dean Hisham Hegab said.

Car burglary suspect sought

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GRAMBLING — The Grambling City Police Department is asking for the public’s help in locating a convicted felon they say is hiding in the Grambling or Ruston area and committing car burglaries.

Grambling Police Chief Tommy Clark said the suspect, Nicole “Kitty” Albritton, is a 38-year-old black female with short black hair. She has brown eyes, stands around 5-foot-2 to 5-foot-3 and weighs around 120 pounds.

Absence of birds no longer a mystery

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About this time five years ago, I wrote a column about something that had begun bothering me. My birds had left my feeders, and the usual chirping — the twit and flitter I had become accustomed to — were absent. What the heck happened to my birds?

I’m not the only one with a nobird problem. I’ve had emails and texts from others who feed birds that are experiencing the same thing as me.

James Franklin McCarter

Funeral Services for James Franklin McCarter, 70, will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 7, 2019, at Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church in Ruston. Interment will immediately follow at the George W. Carver Cemetery in Ruston. Visitation was held from 1 - 6 p.m. Friday, Dec. 6, 2019, at Memorial Funeral Home Chapel in Arcadia, LA. Services are under the direction of Memorial Funeral Home, Arcadia Location.

Pedestrian killed after I-20 crash

A Downsville man was struck and killed Thursday night on Interstate 20 after he got out of his vehicle thathadbeeninvolved in a crash with an 18-wheeler.

Louisiana State Police said Chance Perkins, 49, was traveling east on I-20 when his vehicle struck the back of an 18-wheeler. After impact with the tractor-trailer, Perkins got out of his vehicle and was struck by another eastbound vehicle, police said.

The accident happened at approximately 8:15 p.m. near Choudrant.

Perkins was transported to a local hospital where he was later pronounced dead.

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.

Lady Techsters cruise past McNeese, 79-54

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Keiunna Walker scored a career-high 20 points and Raizel Guinto added a careerhigh eight assists to lead Louisiana Tech to a 79-54 win over Mc-Neese State Thursday night at the Thomas Assembly Center.

Tech (5-2) picked up its third straight win using a 13-0 run to start the third quarter and push a 29-26 halftime lead out to 42-26 midway through the quarter.

The Lady Techsters forced 30 turnovers in the win and dominated the paint, outscoring the Cowgirls 44-22.

Dunkin’ Dogs shock Mississippi State

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STARKVILLE, Miss. — The score was tied 11 times in a classic dogfight, but it was Louisiana Tech who made the winning plays down the stretch to take down Mississippi State, 74-67, on Thursday night in front of 6,375 inside Humphrey Coliseum.

Tech (6-2) checked off all the boxes needed in order to end MSU’s (6-2) 26-game non-conference home winning streak that was the longest in the SEC.