A Ruston man was arrested on an aggravated kidnapping charge Thursday after an Aug. 23 incident in which he allegedly shoplifted from a convenience store, held a driver in the parking lot at gunpoint, led police officers on a car chase and escaped.
It’s 6:30 a.m. The sun is just beginning to throw a pale pink streak across the horizon. But already dozens of Styrofoam take-out boxes loaded with cheese grits, toast and other breakfast foods sit on long folding tables, ready for grab-and-go.
Legends Plaza in Grambling has a new lease on life after bankruptcy proceedings in Baton Rouge on Thursday turned control of the property located on R.W.E. Jones Drive over to the city of Grambling and the Grambling Economic Corporation.
Salvation Army Captain Jerry Casey hands boxed lunches to a Ruston resident on Thursday as part of the organization’s Emergency Disaster Services program.
Louisiana Tech University’s Professional Master of Business Administration has once again been recognized as a top program in the nation with a No. 2 ranking on College Consensus’ 2020 list of “Best Value Online MBA Programs.”
Ruston and Lincoln Parish have moved from COVID-19 red zones to yellow zones, according to the latest state report from the White House Coronavirus Task Force.
In the midst of helping locally with recovery efforts in the wake of Hurricane Laura, a disaster relief group from Rolling Hills Ministries headed to Lake Charles Thursday to help the region hardest hit by the Category 4 storm.
