He’s back setting lines in the Missouri River again and he’s picking up right where he left off a decade ago. Keith Johnson moved to Ruston after living in Missouri for a few years, but a job – and four grandchildren – called him back to the St. Louis area a year ago. Last week, Johnson published a...

One of Jena High School’s most celebrated coaches, Carrice Russell Baker, was named to a list of the top 25 most influential women in Louisiana sports history by The Advocate of Baton Rouge. Baker was a girls’ basketball coach at Jena High from 1972 to 1985 and remains the state’s winningest high sc...

The Jena Dixie Youth Baseball (7/8 year olds) team for Black Bayou Construction included: front row (left to right) Brayden Davidson, Leighton Paul, Tyler Rutledge, Cooper Davidson and Hoss Smith; middle row (l to r) Brady Ellis, David Graham, Carter Martin, Miller Terral and Luke Hawkins and back r...

The Jena Dixie Youth Baseball (9/10 year olds) team for XTO Energy included: front row (left to right) Gentry Andrews, Tatum Maxwell, Tommy Ogle, Clay...

The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD) advises motorists throughout the state to be aware of how the extreme summer heat is...

The Jena Dixie Youth T-Ball (three year olds) team for Windham Oil included: front row (left to right) Jett Pearson, Jaxon Bolgiano, Maveryk Sprouse, ...