District 11 State Representative Rashid Young and District 12 Representative Chris Turner hosted a group of the Ruston High School Bearcats senior football players at Louisiana’s State Capitol. Held earlier this month in Baton Rouge, the event honored the students for their 2023 state championship. The team was recognized on the House of Representatives floor, and the two representatives presented head coach Jerrod Baugh with a special proclamation. Team members also dined in House speaker Phillip DeVillier’s apartment and were treated to a tour of the Capitol building.
Senior members of Ruston High’s 2023 state championship football team spent the day recently in Baton Rouge as guests of the Louisiana Legislature. The team and coaches were honored at the Capitol and then were treated to a meal at the apartment of House speaker Phillip DeVillier. The Bearcats put together a 14-0 season to win the school’s first state title since 1990.
Louisiana Tech utili ty player Ethan Bates has been named a John Olerud Two-Way Player of the Year Award semif inalist as announced by the College Baseball Foundation.
Will Allen of Louisiana Tech was one of six student- athletes who received the Conference USA Winter Spirit of Service Award, as announced by the league office on Tuesday.
Louisiana State Sen. Cleo Fields told 427 new Grambling State University (GSU) graduates to remember they are all somebody who can change the world for the better as he served as the keynote speaker for Spring 2024 Commencement Exercises inside the Fredrick C. Hobdy Assembly Center.
The Louisiana Department of Health’s (LDH) Office of Public Health (OPH) in Northeast Louisiana and community partners will host a free Stepping into Summer Health and Wellness event on Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon at Louisiana Civil Rights Trail, 135 Richard Zuber Thruway (Hwy. 167) in Jonesboro.
Louisiana Tech students know that when it comes to engineering, science, and technology, the best lessons are learned through perseverance, innovative trials, and — most importantly — applying a little elbow grease.
