Ruston News

RUSTON, La. - A single-vehicle crash on U.S. 80 at Louisiana 818 in Lincoln Parish has claimed the life of a Grambling teenager.

This month the Monroe-West Monroe Business and Professional Women is marking its 89th year in service to the community.

In six months, downtown Ruston will have a cleaner, neater look. The city will bury power lines underground, build new sidewalks and waterlines and replace curbs with a uniform appearance.

RUSTON -- The deadline to renew Louisiana Tech football season tickets is Wednesday.

RUSTON - Food booths, vendor tents and various festival activities offered participants at the 59th Annual Squire Creek Louisiana Peach Festival some respite from the sun Saturday while they browsed through handmade arts and crafts.

RUSTON - As the city gears up for the annual Peach Festival this weekend, Louisiana Tech's IDEA Place is lending a helping hand with a Sunday event.

NATCHITOCHES - The city of Natchitoches will hold a fireworks display over Cane River Lake about 9 p.m. today on the southern end of the riverbank downtown.

Ruston police on Wednesday arrested Tracy Hobbs, 39, of 215 West Texas Ave., Ruston, in connection with the robbery of First National Bank, 212 West Alabama Ave.

The Ruston Farmers' Market will relocate to the Lincoln Public Library parking lot for one day only Saturday.

Police have arrested a suspect in the midday robbery of a Lincoln Parish bank. The First National Bank branch on West Alabama St.

Look for arts and crafts, children's activities, nightly music in Railroad Park, food, a parade, sporting events, a pet show, peach cookery contest, peach-eating contest, a rodeo, antique car show, Ricky Scaggs and, of course, Ruston peaches.

I live in fear and dread - to this day - of people who absolutely refuse to stop and ask for directions, even when it's obvious that the driver is hopelessly lost.

The Haynesville Shale injected nearly $4 billion into the economy of northwest Louisiana last year, but it may have come at the expense of some local oil and gas firms.

Even though officials say it will be at least six months before a startup auto plant in Ouachita Parish begins taking job applications, investor James Davison says his unrelated company has been flooded with calls from people who want to work there.

A joint investigation involving the Louisiana State Police and the Lincoln Parish Narcotics Enforcement Team resulted in the arrest of 11 people for various narcotics charges in Lincoln Parish.

The Ruston Farmers' Market hosts a Taste of Summer Festival on Saturday in the public parking lot on the corner of Louisiana Avenue and South Monroe Street in downtown Ruston.

Four area principals are among 21 Principal of the Year regional winners, putting them in the running for the state award, according to the Louisiana Department of Education.

Clinton James Clement, 18, of 436 Valley View Drive, Ruston was charged early Monday with underage driving while intoxicated, simple possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, a license plate light violation and modified exhaust system.

A house committee today barely squeaked out a new tax on tobacco. The promise is to use the extra money to plug funding holes in healthcare.

Accusations of murder and abuse inside a north Louisiana center which houses developmentally impaired individuals surfaced at the state Capitol Tuesday.