This year was only three months old when a trio of Ruston men was charged with second-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder in connection with a shooting at a Bernice
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
