Elton News

The Gates Millennium Scholars Program has selected this year's 1,000 new students, including several from Louisiana, to receive good-through-graduation scholarships which can be used to pursue degrees in any undergraduate major at the accredited college or university of the recipients' choice.

It was named last year as one of 261 schools across the country to be rebuilt under the Government's Priority School Building Programme.

An Elton man is accused of livestock theft and criminal trespassing, according to a news release from the Jeff Davis Parish Sheriff's Office.