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CSE holds Lemonade Day

LeAnn Patterson’s fourth grade enrichment class at Cypress Springs Elementary School recently participated in Lemonade Day. The students decided to donate their proceeds to the city of Ruston for the tornado relief. Pictured are the students presenting the $800 check to Ruston Mayor Ronny Walker.

Diamond ’Dogs shut out FIU

MIAMI — In his final regular season start as a Bulldog, Louisiana Tech senior captain Matt Miller was nothing short of brilliant, shutting out Florida International 3-0 in a five-hit, 8.2 inning, pitching performance at FIU Baseball Stadium on Thursday evening.

The Bulldogs (33-21, 16-12 C-USA) received one of the best career starts from their senior right-hander, who at one point, retired 12 consecutive batters. Miller (6-1) struck out six and walked two, while Tech played solid defense behind him, turning a pair of crucial double plays on the evening.

Calling it quits

GRAMBLING — Seven Fred’s locations in Louisiana, including the one in Grambling, will be some of 104 underperforming stores nationwide to close as part of an ongoing effort to “rationalize its store footprint,” the company announced Thursday.

The Fred’s store on U.S. Highway 80 in Grambling, just off R.W.E. Jones Street, will be closing by the end of June as the company shuts the doors on 104 stores in the southeast U.S. it deems underperforming.

Liquidation is expected to begin immediately.

Ruston’s Fred’s store is not on the list of closing locations.

Take caution with credit card balance transfers

Question: My adult child has only been working a few years and ran up a credit card bill at a favorite department store. The interest rate is outrageous. How can I help him transfer the balance to another card with lower interest?

Answer: Why would you want to do that?

I presume your answer involves high interest rates being wasteful, etc. OK, we can agree on that.

DEATH NOTICES

Cottingham Betty Cottingham, 64, died May 7, 2019 in West Monroe LA. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday May 18, 2019 at Fellowship Baptist Church in Simsboro,

‘Forewarned is forearmed’

You’re driving along in normal Ruston traffic and hear a siren coming up some distance behind you. You can’t see yet whether it’s a fire truck, police car or ambulance,

I was the wretch that guy wrote about

I read something just now that reminded me of something that happened a few years back. A divine encounter in the parking lot of Wally World, of all places. I

Drake Mills: Louisiana Tech’s newest Tower Medallion recipient

Drake Mills, a 1982 finance graduate of Louisiana Tech, the University’s Alumnus of the Year in 2010, and Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Origin Bancorp, Inc., is the

Bearcats hold spring scrimmage

Ruston High School head football coach Jared Baugh addresses his Bearcats following Wednesday’s spring scrimmage game against Bastrop at L.J. “Hoss” Garrett Stadium as what is left of the destroyed

Cardinals’ Peterson suspended 6 games

TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Arizona Cardinals All-Pro cornerback Patrick Peterson has been suspended for the first six games of the 2019 season for violating the NFL’s performance-enhancing drug policy. The