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North Alexandria target neighborhood. Citizens of Alexandria are urged to attend one of the hearings.

The 256th Battalion of the Louisiana National Guard has received orders to deploy to Iraq after the first of the year.

Who Was Leroy Johnson? I visited the courthouse in Oberlin recently and noticed a large, bronze memorial plaque on one of the courthouse walls near the main entrance of the building with the inscription 'Leroy Johnson killed on Dec.

Jackson Parish in north Louisiana has a small Sheriff's Office, but it is getting big recognition for its support of its seven employees who are citizen soldiers in the National Guard and Reserves.

A Small Jackson Parish town celebrated the opening of a new medical clinic this afternoon.

Charles Cheatwood of Shreveport and Gwendolyn Cheatwood of Jonesboro are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Cynthia Cheatwood, to Mason Jones, son of Danny and Sarah Jones of West Monroe.

A Louisiana lawmaker says he's disappointed that the state's top education officials have not moved faster to implement a new high school curriculum and diploma.

NEW ORLEANS - State police delivered a report to the district attorney Tuesday on their investigation of the fatal shooting of a 73-year-old black man in northern Louisiana by white officers.

NEW ORLEANS - State police delivered a report to the district attorney Tuesday on their investigation of the fatal shooting of a 73-year-old black man in northern Louisiana by white officers.

Jonesboro Police arrested a 51-year old man Wednesday night in connection with the stabbing death of a Jonesboro woman.

One of the largest annual equine events in northeastern Louisiana began Tuesday as youth from across the state opened the 40th Annual Louisiana 4-H and FFA State Horse Show.

BATON ROUGE - While approving funding that reduced cuts to higher education and health care, state lawmakers also included $34 million to fund select projects in their districts.

Many people consider the Bible dry or difficult reading, and for this reason, it is often taken for granted.

Louisiana lawmakers already are warning us that deeper state budget cuts are ahead.

Northeastern Louisiana's most powerful legislators, committee chairs who drive much of the agenda in the state House and Senate, said the cuts made to balance the upcoming budget were mere nicks compared to what could come during the next two years.

An attempt to override Governor Bobby Jindal's rejection of $98 million in federal stimulus money to expand unemployment benefits remains stalled in the Senate Finance Committee, which delayed discussion of the proposal yesterday.

In a surprising twist, the Louisiana House gave final legislative passage Thursday to a $28 billion budget bill that ties health care and higher education to uncertain financing and assures cleanup measures will be required to fix the spending plan.

"In the abundance of water," the reggae legend Bob Marley sang, "the fool is thirsty." Imagine, then, the consequences of an abundance of fools.

Ignoring opposition from a former governor and his state school board member son, a Senate committee Thursday moved Louisiana one step closer to a high school curriculum overhaul that would allow a less academically rigorous diploma track for students who never pass the LEAP test in the eighth grade.

BATON ROUGE - Most northeastern Louisiana state representatives voted for the $27 billion budget approved by the House Thursday, but few liked it.