Homer News

Former Ouachita Parish Police Jury Public Works Director Frederick "Bo" Boyte, who is serving jail time for malfeasance in office, has been booted from Sheriff Royce Toney's work release program.

NATCHITOCHES - Celebration on the Cane kicks off at 9 a.m. today in Natchitoches with Cane River Green Market and continues through a fireworks display at nightfall.

The Caddo sheriff's office will hold a free bicycle rodeo for first- through fifth-graders from 10 a.m. to noon July 10 at Sheriff's Safety Town, 8910 Jewella Ave.

Without broadband, Becky Collins would be out of business. Collins, owner of Granny B's Clothesline , said she was able to leave her job filing out Medicare forms and start her own children's clothing business because of broadband availability in Homer, Louisiana, population 3,800. Collins, who started out selling dresses to friends, left her ...

Two years ago, Charles and Rebecca Frye made a life-changing decision. Instead of uprooting their young family and moving to Austin, Texas, to further their professional careers, the Homer natives decided to stay in West Monroe, start their own design firm, Deltablend Design, and raise a family.

Jill Elizabeth Brown of Arcadia, La. and Benjamin Brooke Tabor III of West Monroe, La.

HOMER -- Louisiana Division of Historic Preservation staffers will be in Homer from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday to train people interested in participating in the local historic preservation commission.

HAYNESVILLE - Claiborne Parish's own Vic Middleton, the 2007 Louisiana champion fiddler, will take his bluegrass band to Homer at 2 p.m. Sunday to perform in the fellowship hall of First Baptist Church in Haynesville.

HOMER - As the paid administrative leave of two Homer police officers connected to a Homer man's fatal shooting moves into its fourth month, the Claiborne Parish Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People questions how much longer taxpayers will have to pay their salaries without getting any benefit.

"ANYTIME THEY WANT TO BE BY THEMSELVES, FIND OUT WHAT'S GOING ON." HE SAYS HE HOPES THEIR STORY WILL BE A WARNING TO ANYONE WATCHING... BETWEEN RAYBURN AND MILLS, AND ... HAYNESVILLE ASSISTANT POLICE CHIEF JASON BRANCH TELLS KSLA NEWS 12 THEY TREATED THE INCIDENT AS A "DOMESTIC SITUATION" INVOLVING AN ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.

HAYNESVILLE - A Homer police officer who had barricaded himself in his house around noon today following a dispute with the police chief is en route to LSU Hospital in Shreveport with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the abdomen, Haynesville Police Chief Anthony Smith said.

Shortly after a confrontation with his boss, a Homer police officer went home, barricaded himself inside and then shot himself as law officers were outside, police said.

A Homer man pulled over during a traffic stop was jailed on drug charges after marijuana was found in his car, Claiborne Parish sheriff's deputies said.

HOMER - The S.A.L.T. Council of the Claiborne Parish TRIAD will have its annual Senior Expo on May 23 at Homer Town Hall.

NATCHITOCHES - A gala celebrating the 100th anniversary of Northwestern State University's yearbook, the Potpourri, will be held at 7:30 p.m. today at the Natchitoches Events Center.

Claire Elizabeth Guidry and Charles Elder Barousse will be married during a 2:00 pm nuptial mass on Saturday, May 20, 2009 at St.

Responding to Arthur Dunlap's letter about the Sparta Aquifer, a representative of the engineering firm did discuss the necessity to purify any water injected into the Sparta Aquifer lest the Sparta water be tainted.

Monroe City Schools Human Resources Director Betty Carroll said the district received more than 20 applications for the principal's position at Martin Luther King Middle School - most from out of district and some from out of state.

The Vice President of the NAACP chapter in Claiborne Parish, Terry Willis, says a gathering is planned for 7:00pm in Homer.

HOMER - The Claiborne Parish School Board voted unanimously Tuesday night to name Janice Kennedy as the school system's new superintendent.