Graveside service for Allie Bell Walker, 84, will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, January 23, 2021, at Sweetwater Cemetery in Quitman, LA, under the direction of Kilpatrick Funeral Homes in Ruston.
Louisiana Tech freshman linebacker Tyler Grubbs capped off an impressive freshman campaign by being selected to the 20th edition of the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA) Freshman All- American Team as announced on Monday.
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas — On Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the Grambling State Lady Tigers used a powerful 26-12 run in the fourth quarter while connecting on 10-of-13 shots from the field to storm back for a 65-64 victory over Prairie View A&M at the William J. Nicks “Baby Dome” in Southwestern Athletic Conference action.
Mardi Gras in 2021 will look very different from past celebrations. Even though COVID-19 already started to spread around the world in February 2020, New Orleans, home to one of the most famous Mardi Gras festivals, carried on with its historic parade as the world was still learning about the virus and how it spread.
There can be no doubt the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has caused some of the most vulnerable to feel even more isolated and alone. Among those are countless numbers of senior citizens.
DEAR HARRIETTE: My daughter is pregnant and wants to give up her baby for adoption. I have offered to take custody of the baby and raise it to keep the baby in the family, but my daughter wants to give it to another family because she does not want it in her life -- or mine.
Making children happy became a parenting goal in the early 1970s. The paradox, as everyone with a modicum of commonsense knows, is that the more effort parents put into making a child happy, the more unhappy the child becomes.
