Clinton News

Parts of Louisiana are looking more like Hollywood lately. A new tax credit law to bring more motion pictures to the Bayou State is enticing many productions.

An exhibit of Charles Fryling Jr.'s photographs of the Atchafalaya Basin is on display through July at the Zachary branch library, 1900 Church St.

Former Police Chief Eddie Stewart began running the town's Police Department this week as an interim appointee of the mayor.

An East Feliciana Parish sheriff's deputy escaped injury Tuesday when the driver of a truck the officer was chasing slammed on his brakes, causing the deputy's car to plow into the rear of the truck, a spokesman for Sheriff Talmadge Bunch said.

Old Clinton High is site for festival East Feliciana Community Center Inc., the group working to renovate the old Clinton High School building for use as a community center, is sponsoring a day of nostalgia and fun 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the Plank Road site.

The Board of Aldermen gave police officers Wednesday authority to work with management to fight crime in two federally subsidized apartment complexes.

Women Conference: 9 a.m. to noon, Greater Arlington Baptist Church, 5445 Nicholson Drive, Speakers include evangelist Tammy Dugas, missionary Mary Sutton and the Rev.

"I hope to become a crime scene investigator working with the state or the city's crime lab.

An East Feliciana Parish jury on Friday found a Clinton man guilty of second-degree murder in the shooting death of a neighbor nearly two years ago.

East Feliciana Parish School Board members said Tuesday they will hold a special meeting at a later date to hear a Slaughter group's proposal to start a charter school in the southern part of the parish.

The East Feliciana Community Center will hold an Easter sunrise service for the community on the front steps of the old Clinton High School 6:30 a.m. to 7:15 a.m. Sunday.

A 37-year-old East Feliciana Parish sheriff's deputy involved in a head-on collision with another motorist Friday night has died.

The East Feliciana Parish School Board's monthly meeting will be held at the Louisiana Technical College's Folkes Campus on Tuesday, rather than at the School Board office in Clinton.

State Police say a 57-year-old Clinton man has died from injuries he sustained in a three-vehicle crash that also injured an East Feliciana Parish Sheriff's deputy.

A head-on collision involving an East Feliciana Sheriff's Deputy last night resulted in the death of a Clinton man and serious injury of the deputy.

A 2-year-old girl died Monday at a Baton Rouge hospital after falling into a pond Saturday, an East Feliciana Parish sheriff's detective said.

Stevie Douglas has been overlooked before. The 2011 quarterback prospect out of Clinton, La., is homeschooled and plays for a football team comprised completely of other home-schooled players from Louisiana.

The East Feliciana Police Jury agreed Tuesday to add $46,000 to the parish's 2009 Homeland Security budget.

CLINTON - Authorities say two prisoners who escaped from a minimum-security work-release program have turned themselves in.

CLINTON, La. -- After Louisiana Municipal Association executives explained the rules for Clinton's town government, an audience member asked, "What do we have to do to get me a police chief?" That remained ...