Grambling State University experienced many changes during 2021 in many of the university’s departments. President Rick Gallot entered his fifth year at the helm of the institution and oversaw the growth of new majors and physical plant improvements.
In 2021 the city of Ruston continued its efforts to become an internet provider, broke ground for the Monroe Street Corridor Project, saw a medical marijuana production plant begin operation, compl
Sometime after midnight on May 10, 2019, Ronald Greene was tased, beaten and dragged facedown by Louisiana State Police troopers during a traffic stop on a rural Union Parish road. He apparently died at the scene.
Gunfire in two unrelated incidents during homecoming week on the Grambling State University campus killed two people and wounded at least eight others in 2021.
Back-to-back winter storms packing ice, snow and dangerously low temperatures, the likes of which Lincoln Parish hadn’t seen in decades, brought weather into the local headlines for the fourth consecutive year.
School news in 2019 was sandwiched on either side by talks of new taxes for the Lincoln Parish School Board. A multi-million dollar package of public school improvements stalled in
Above, Ruston Regional Airport Manager Joey Sutton (far left) walks with passengers and a crew member from a Boutique Air commuter plane that had to make an emergency landing Oct.
