Turner Bayou Operational Update: focus now on second well
Efforts to enhance the Deshotels Oil and Gas well between Dupont and Odenburg have hit another snag, so, at least for the meantime, the well is not producing as much as oil execs believe it will at...
Grant Parish Deputy Shot
Earlier this afternoon, Grant Parish Sheriff’s Deputies were involved in a shooting.
The shooting occurred around 2:50 pm at the Grant Parish Sheriff’s Department Criminal Investigative Divisio...
Hearing for ousted school board member Lizzie Ned rescheduled A court hearing involving ousted Avoyelles Parish School Board member Lizzie Ned has been delayed until March 10 in the federal courthouse in downtown Alexandria.
Judge Dee Drell reset the hearin...
Old photos sought for Mansura book Old photos of Mansura area families are being sought for an upcoming book.
Volume two of the Mansura Sesquicentennial series features French, Creole, and other family histories and photos.
In par...
Simmesport pair charged with 32 rocks of crack cocaine According to Avoyelles Parsih Sheriff Doug Anderson two (2) Simmesport residents were arrested after deputies searched the home of Eden Rabalais located at 6648 Hwy 1, Simmesport, La. late tuesday ...
Log shows no unanswered calls from murder victim Avoyelles Publishing Company was allowed to view previously denied phone logs at the 911 Center looking for three, alleged, “hang-up” phone calls concerning the murder of Gail Borrell. Today, Avo...
911 call log to be inspected The Avoyelles Parish Sheriff will now allow access to the call log of the disputed 911 calls in the Borrell murder case.
Earlier, the APSO denied the request of the newspaper to see the daily log ...
State prison in Avoyelles to be transfered to Sheriff's Office Today, Department of Public Safety and Corrections Secretary James Le Blanc announced that the state is transferring two state prison operations to the Rapides Parish Sheriff and the Avoyelles Pari...
Suicide confirmed near Hessmer An uncomfirmed but official report has said the body found off Hwy. 115 in between Hessmer and the Bayhills area on Wednesday, February 23 was a suicide.
The body, and apparently the act itself, ...
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