Gilbert News

Catahoula Parish Veterans Day Program will be November 11 at 9:40 a.m. at Block High School Gym.

Know anyone -- maybe a patient or a family member -- who's taking an antidepressant to help with sleep, a relatively common off-label treatment prescribed by physicians for menopausal women? Or anyone who takes low-dose statin cholesterol-lowering drugs as a prophylactic measure against heart attack and stroke -- not to treat high cholesterol? They ...

Kathryn Anne Russell and Ryan Francis Heavener exchanged marriage vows at 5:30 p.m. at the Louisiana Baptist Children's Home chapel in Monroe, La.

David Gilmore, who was credited with turning around the D.C. Housing Authority, wll lead a 12 member management team for Housing Authority of New Orleans Saturday, October 10, 2009 A man who has spent four decades as an administrator of public housing agencies has been named to lead the 12 member management team being installed to turn around the ...

GILBERT - Two men have died in a single-vehicle crash in Franklin Parish. State police tell The News-Star that 38-year-old James Stokes of Winnsboro and 36-year-old Jeffrey Peck of Slidell were pronounced dead at the scene late Thursday night.

Teressa Adams of West Monroe, a homemaker, died Wednesday. Arrangements are incomplete under the direction of Mulhearn Funeral Home, West Monroe.

RUSTON - Peggy Hancock Adkins, a homemaker, died Saturday. Arrangements are incomplete under the direction of Kilpatrick Funeral Home, Ruston.

Super Thursday Race to Boy Scouting on Sept. 10 will provide boys throughout northeast Louisiana the opportunity to join scouting.

CALHOUN - Melvin Bordelon, retired from Manville, died Sunday. Services are 2 p.m. Wednesday at The Apostolic Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, West Monroe.

CALHOUN - Melvin Bordelon, retired from Manville, died Sunday. Services are 2 p.m. Wednesday at The Apostolic Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, West Monroe.