Choudrant News

Ruston's Brandon Newton made up the most ground among area players in the second round of the Louisiana Boys Junior Golf Championship which concludes today at Alexandria Country Club.

Virtually every municipality in northeastern Louisiana has lost population since 2000, according to a report released this month from the U.S. Census Bureau.

CHOUDRANT - Louisiana Secretary of State Jay Dardenne expects the Eddie G. Robinson Museum in Grambling to be open sometime in 2010.

It has been four years since Sarah Davison last played competitive golf but that didn't stop the Choudrant resident from marching decisively to the Louisiana Women's State Amateur Championship.

CHOUDRANT - The 1,400 jobs created by a new American auto manufacturer at the former Guide plant in Ouachita Parish will average $40,000 per year and create almost $20 billion in economic activity during the first 15 years of production, Louisiana's top economic development official said Tuesday.

RUSTON - Thirty-five Louisiana Tech nursing graduates were honored during the spring pinning ceremony held in Howard Auditorium.

Preliminary results from an autopsy on Meredith Jean Davis, 39, the Choudrant woman who was found dead near Hatch Bridge in Richland Parish May 24, indicate Davis died as a result of blunt force trauma and strangulation.

Career Technical College has named the recipients of its inaugural High School Merit Scholarships program.

For the first time in over 70 years, the small town of Choudrant, LA has had a homicide.

The Lincoln Parish Sheriff's Department confirmed Monday that authorities believe the suspect in a Choudrant weekend murder case had thrown his victim off a bridge in Richland Parish.

CHOUDRANT - Ruth Sanderson compared worship services at First Baptist Church on Sunday morning to a town hall meeting in the aftermath of what is possibly the first homicide in this community in more than 70 years.

Lincoln Parish sheriff deputies say they arrested a Choudrant man early this morning and charged him with the murder of wife.

CHOUDRANT - Outhouses will race down the streets of Choudrant on Saturday, a new feature of this year's community cleanup day.

RUSTON - Entry forms are available for the annual Squire Creek Louisiana Peach Festival 5K and 1-Mile Fun Run sponsored by Northern Louisiana Medical Center.

They fell out of the sky like black rain, flooding lawns on either side of Choudrant's Bagwell Street with their dark, swarming presence.

Ouachita Christian has moved from No. 4 in the original Class 1A softball bracket to No.

At the March 19 meeting of the State Bond Commission, $759 million in funding was approved for projects statewide, according to State Treasurer John Kennedy.

A Choudrant man is behind bars today after Ouachita Parish sheriff's investigators charged him with two counts of felony theft and one count of trespassing in connection with a series of drilling pipe thefts earlier this month at well sites in Calhoun and Lincoln Parish.

Get on with your life - a solution after a divorce? Date: March 12, 2009 Psychologists and counselors are dealing with a problem that many in America consider inevitable: divorce.

Johnnie Simon of Choudrant, a non-traditional student who graduated high school in 1985, marched into Thomas Assembly Center on March 7 with 334 other Louisiana Tech University students.