This year marks the 74th year of Ruston’s long-standing and beloved Peach Festival. It was 49 years ago that one of the most popular stops for festival-goers became a treasured part of the festivities. That would be the peach ice cream booth.
A boyfriend and girlfriend who apparently got into a fight about how the woman’s children should be disciplined have each been charged with domestic abuse battery with child endangerment.
If you’ve admired the stunning display of purple flowers in the landscape in recent weeks, you’ve witnessed one of Louisiana’s finest blooming small trees or large shrubs: the vitex, also known as the chaste tree.