Jackson News

A Tornado Watch has been issued until 8 p.m. for portions of north Louisiana. The watch includes, Grant, Winn, Webster, Bienville, Caldwell, Union, Lincoln, Jackson, La Salle and Ouachita Parishes.

Every once in a while I stumble over something that opens my eyes wide to a lot of the silliness of secularism that pervades evangelicalism and, in turn, warps the whole of generations.

BATON ROUGE - LSU tailback Jeremy Hill was handed something Tuesday he has not had since the 2012 football season -- a curfew.

Baton Rouge City Constable Reginald Brown Sr. said his deputies had been telling him that they were being honored by organizations around the city for their community service efforts - but not by their own office.

Baton Rouge police are investigating the Wednesday night shooting death of a 20-year-old man in the 4200 block of Provost Street.

A Baton Rouge man testified late Wednesday that he drove Michael "Marlo Mike" Louding and Michael "Ghost" Judson from rapper Torence "Lil Boosie" Hatch's home to the neighborhood where Terry Boyd was staying, and back to Hatch's home, the night Boyd was shot to death inside a Vermillion Drive home in 2009.

Education Superintendent John White testifies against House Bill 466 on Wednesday, April 24, 2014.

Michael "Marlo Mike" Louding methodically told Baton Rouge police detectives in 2010 that he fatally shot Terry Boyd and local up-and-coming rapper Chris "Nussie" Jackson in 2009, and that rapper Torence "Lil Boosie" Hatch ordered and paid for both hits, according to Louding's videotaped statements played in court Tuesday.

The East Feliciana Parish School Board voted 6-5 Monday to swap locations for the parish's high school and middle school in August.