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September 2021

Johnson honored by Conference USA as Defensive Player of the Week

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Louisiana Tech freshman libero McKenzie Johnson was named the Conference USA Defensive Player of the Week announced by the league on Monday.

GSU announces protocols for home games

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GRAMBLING — With the significant threat presented by COVID-19 across the state of Louisiana due to the highly transmissible Delta variant, Grambling State University will require all guests visiting Eddie G. Robinson Memorial Stadium 12 years of age and older to provide proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 PCR/ Rapid Antigen Test taken within 48 hours or sooner prior to entry.

Lincoln Prep prepared to rebound from first loss

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Lincoln Prep is trying to employ a strategy of amnesia this week as it prepares to face Arcadia on the road in a District 1-1A matchup Friday night.

Elsie Marie Higgins Spiller

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Funeral Services for Elsie Marie Higgins Spiller, 89, of Ruston, will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, September 25, 2021, in the Chapel of Temple Baptist Church, Ruston with Rev. Dale Oden officiating. Interment will follow in Douglas Cemetery in Ruston under the direction of Mulhearn Funeral Home of West Monroe.

Betty Lou McMahan Lucas

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Betty Lou McMahan Lucas was born on January 1, 1939, in Wisner, and crossed into heaven in Ruston, on September 18, 2021, following a brief illness.

Fourth surge waning, but will a fifth one come?

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Depending on who you listen to, Louisiana’s fourth surge of COVID-19 is beginning to wane. But don’t lose your mask or cuddle too closely just yet.

Ida's destruction may help Hurricane Laura victims

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Hurricane Ida’s thrashing left homes in mangled heaps across southeastern Louisiana, but in an uncomfortable twist, the storm might have been a boon to southwestern parishes still struggling to recover from last year’s Hurricane Laura.

527th battalion to hold Desert Storm reunion

In the early 1990s, Ruston contributed to the Operation Desert Storm effort in Iraq by sending some the best that it had to offer in the U.S. Army National Guard 527th Engineering Battalion.

When America follows its better angels

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I was recently filling in hosting a talk show, which gave me the opportunity to interview Lt. Col. Jonathan P. Meyers, a retired Marine who’d recently written a memoir about his almost three decades in service: “American to the Corps.”

One defendant at public school with plaintiff

As part of its Monday morning statement on the civil bullying litigation filed against the school, the Cedar Creek Board of Directors claimed five students were expelled following an internal investigation.