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Deputies arrested a Rayville man for participating in a dog fight Sunday.

Richland Parish Chief Deputy Terry Thompson said the sheriff’s office received a complain about a disturbance at 112 Ruth St., Rayville, about 8 p.m. Monday night.

“Deputy Frank Marble responded and observed five or six males standing around a dog fighting pit,” Thompson said.

All of the men ran when they spotted the deputy watching them. Marble then called for backup and deputies Terry Parrish and Frank Smith arrived at the crime scene.

The four ladies gathered at the LSU Extension Service Office can trace an unbroken timeline back to 1951 when Earline Brown Baker started working as a secretary at the office.

Brown was with the AgCenter from 1951 to 1955. During that time, she served the community alongside county agent Basil Doles, assistant agent Sidney Reech and associate agent Austin Johnson, home demonstration agent, Hazel Fusilier and assistant agents Barbara Gwin, Margie Truly and Joanne Dewitt.

Melda Silk came on board as the extension service secretary in 1955, working with the same people.

Angela S. Lafonta, owner of Tinkerbelle’s Day Care in Winnsboro and Rayville, was sentenced to 55 months in prison for defrauding the Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services’ Child Care Assistance Program out of approximately $120,000 over a three-year period, United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced.

Lafonta was also ordered to pay $16,404.99 in restitution.

Richland Parish residents will see a familiar face when Swamp Volcano debuts at 8 p.m. Saturday on the SyFy Network.

Roger J. Timber, formerly of Rayville, will be emceeing a dance party on the beach as a volcano menaces Florida. Timber was cast in the role in December 2010 after playing a doughnut-munching cop in the movie Storm Wars.

“Once again, I get to be myself,” Timber jokes, “It shows the party side of my personality.”

On a more serious note, Timber will also be performing two very different shows in Lafayette on Monday.

Hundreds of people lined Martin Luther King Street Monday to celebrate the life of the late civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King.

Numerous churches and elected officials took part in the parade, which also featured marching bands from Delhi, Rayville and Lake Providence High Schools.

Winners in the floats competition were Walmart, first place; Order of Eastern Star Love Chapter 49, second place; and Mt. Zion B.C., third place.

Following the parade, the crowd gathered at the Rayville Civic Center where Richland Parish School Superintendent Sheldon Jones addressed the crowd.

Denbury Onshore is producing mini-earthquakes in Delhi as the company attempts to map the oil fields beneath the town.

A crew was in the field last week testing the equipment and calibrating it to make sure their seismic testing wouldn’t cause harm to the town’s infrastructure, senior geophysicist Trevor Richards said.