Delta News

Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad: Nov.

In the midst of troubled economic times is never the best time to ask your neighbor to open their pocketbook and their heart to help you out, yet that is what New Orleans and the metro area is asking from the nation.

New Orleans will host the inaugural meeting of the World Delta Dialogues, it was announced in Washington.

Eastbound Interstate 20 traffic will be reduced to one lane around Exit 186 in Delta on Tuesday because of maintenance work to the Weigh-In-Motion Scales.

Northeastern Louisiana's month-long monsoon that dropped as many as 30 inches of rain has bogged down the biggest commercial construction boom in Ouachita Parish in years.

Rachel Jackson of Monroe will soon compete for the title of MISS LOUISIANA TEEN USA.

The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency says several counties reported property damage Friday as strong thunderstorms swept through the Delta.

Romona Latrice Lazard and Kenneth Wayne Lamb, both of Opleousas, will exchange wedding vows on October 3, 2009, during a 2 p.m. ceremony at Community Chapel Church of God in Christ in Opelousas.

Music lovers are traveling to the Mississippi River town of Greenville this weekend to hear gritty guitar licks and soulful harmonica solos at the Delta Blues and Heritage Festival.

Autopsy results for a little boy who died in Vicksburg over the weekend are back.

Autopsy results are expected Monday in the death of a 2-year-old Louisiana boy who died of apparent head injuries at a Mississippi hospital.

No one should have been surprised at the predictable comments of the oil industry speakers at the Aug.

Tallulah Mayor Eddie Beckwith Jr. said the planned ConAgra Lamb Weston sweet potato processing plant near Delhi will provide an economic boost that will ripple throughout the Delta.

Building regional communities will be the focus of a meeting from noon to 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Vidalia Conference and Convention Center.

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

Madame C.J. Walker saw an opportunity where few others did, and she seized it, bringing to market a line of hair care products and scalp conditioners for African-American women.

BATON ROUGE - A new state law seeks to curb a growing trend of small communities annexing property along interstate highways and padding their budgets by posting police cars to catch speeders.

After it was pieced together just after the turn of the 20th century, U.S. 80 in northeastern Louisiana was part of the great Dixie Overland Highway that stretched from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.

A 'rising star' in two-year education, Dr. Monty Sullivan, has returned to his proper constellation, the Louisiana Community and Technical College System, where he should again make an important impact in our people's lives.

Monty Sullivan, an Oak Grove native and one of the founding employees of Louisiana Delta Community College in 2001, was approved as the new executive vice president of the Louisiana Community and Technical College system by the system board of supervisors Wednesday.