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Friend wants to distance selffrom woman stuck in past

DEAR HARRIETTE: My friend and I used to be very close until she moved back home to take care of her ailing mother (who has since died). Honestly, she seems stuck. She is of age, still needs to work, so she does oddj obs here and there.

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CMC donates to Center for the Blind

The second annual Darick Williamson Memorial event that was held on Feb. 22 and was put together and hosted by the Confederates Motorcycle Club, Ruston Chapter, benefited the Louisiana Center for the Blind in honor of its late employee, Darick Williamson. The CMC collected $5,926 from the event, a big increase over the $3,465 the initial event raised last year. Pictured from left to right are Hank Vowels, Pamela Allen from the Louisiana Center for the Blind, Mickey Jones, Charles Payne, Cory Beckham, Weaz Crump, Wallace Wingard and Ryan Davidson.

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BIRTHDAYS

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Lady Techsters upset Blazers, 66-63

FRISCO, Texas— It was an all too familiar scenario for Louisiana Tech heading down the stretch in the final minutes of the opening round of the 2020 Air Force Reserve Conference USA Basketball Tournament.

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GSU bounced from SWAC tourney

Prince Moss (with ball) and the Grambling State Tigers were eliminated by Texas Southern Tuesday in the quarterfinals of the 2020 Cricket Wireless Southwestern Athletic Conference Men’s Basketball Tournament by the score of 75-62 at the HP&E Arena in Houston. Grambling (17-15, 11-7 SWAC) was led by redshirt sophomore Cameron Christon who finished with a team-high 14 points on four-of-six shooting.

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Dunkin’ Dogs to start C-USA tourney tonight

Third-seeded Louisiana Tech will open the 2020 Conference USA Tournament at 9 p.m. today on Court B at The Star in Frisco, Texas.

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Tech baseball team beats SLU

Louisiana Tech piled on 13 unanswered runs over the first five innings to defeat the Southeastern Louisiana Lions 14-3 Tuesday in front of 785 fans at the Ruston High School Baseball Complex.

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Ruston murder suspect nabbed in Simsboro

A Crimestoppers tip has led to the arrest of Howard Demartae Jackson, the suspect wanted in connection with the shooting death of a Grambling man at a party in downtown Ruston in January.

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Police Jury grants tax break for chicken feed mill

A major poultry producer is building a new chicken feed mill in Simsboro, and the Lincoln Parish Police Jury on Tuesday voted to grant the company an exemption from property taxes via a state program.