Ruston Daily Leader

09/02/2025

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09/02/2025

Former Lady Techsters guard Debbie Williamson has received national honors.

Forty years after her graduation from Louisiana Tech, Debbie Primeaux Williamson continues to rack up athletic achievements.

09/02/2025

There's still time to pick up our 2025 Pigskin Football Preview, the definitive guide to all things Lincoln Parish football!
Pick up a copy at our office or find a flip-through edition online here: https://publisher.etype.services/Ruston-Daily-Leader/e-paper-special-edition/DB32C2D9489AF266

09/02/2025

Ruston’s Bulldog Aquatic Club closed out the summer with strong results across both the Louisiana Senior and Age Group Long Course State Championships, held at the LSU Natatorium.

09/02/2025

Ruston volleyball opens the regular season tonight at home.

Ruston High volleyball is a youth movement this fall.

09/02/2025

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08/30/2025

Officials confirm more West Nile found in Ruston

More West Nile virus has been found in Ruston, this time in one new location, one continuing location, and an apparent reappearance in third location.City officials were notified Friday that mosquito

08/29/2025

As Hurricane Katrina approached, the Singleton family fled their home in St. Bernard Parish and wound up in Ruston. They've lived here ever since.

Around midnight on Aug. 26, 2005, Reynetta Singleton and her husband decided they’d had enough.

08/29/2025

Game preview: Louisiana Tech begins a pivotal 2025 season in a home game against Southeastern Louisiana Saturday at 6:30 p.m.

Bulldogs, SLU hook up in vital Louisiana matchup

08/29/2025

“I feared more for my life personally in eight days in the Superdome than I did in eight months in Afghanistan."
We spoke with Ruston firefighters and National Guardsmen who deployed to New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina 20 years ago.

Steve Quinnelly isn’t planning to go back to the Louisiana Superdome — ever. Amanda Parker had moments of anxiety the first time she went back.

08/29/2025

20 years after Hurricane Katrina made landfall, today's Ruston Daily Leader contains a package of stories devoted to remembering Louisiana's worst natural disaster and its effects in Ruston and Lincoln Parish, including the more than 4,000 evacuees that flooded the area in the storm's wake.

Aftermath, chaos of nature’s wrath felt in Lincoln Parish

08/28/2025

A gunman fired a rifle through the windows of a Catholic church in Minneapolis where students were celebrating their first Mass of the new school year Wednesday, killing an 8-year-old and a 10-yearold in the pews and injuring 17 others, police said.