Lincoln Parish residents who are not registered to vote but who want to participate in the July 11 presidential preference primary, and voters who are registered but want to make changes in their registration, have until Wednesday to do so in person at the Lincoln Parish Registrar of Voters office or the local Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles office.
Small-scale versions of protests against racial injustice and police brutality that have swept the country and the world in recent days came to Ruston Tuesday.
The Louisiana Department of Health is now including the number of nursing home residents and staff members who have recovered from COVID-19 among its weekly updates.
Ruston Police Officer Jason Aldridge, center, received a commendation from his department Monday night for saving the life of a teenager who had fallen through a storefront window, suffering a severe laceration to his leg.
A Ruston man is being held at the Lincoln Parish Detention Center on an attempted second-degree murder charge stemming from a weekend shooting incident.
Cars were lined up at the Ruston Sports Complex on Monday morning awaiting the opening of this week’s continued free testing for COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus.
