Junction City News

BATON ROUGE, La. - A couple from Hampton, Ark., won the latest Louisiana Lotto jackpot to the tune of $450,000. Betty and Wayne Breazeale say they bought the winning ticket at a Junction City convenience store, which will get a bonus of $4,500-1 percent of the prize-for selling it.

BREAKING NEWS: SCHOOL CLOSURES RIGHT NOW--- MOREHOUSE PARISH SCHOOLS LET OUT AT 1PM, EARLIER TODAY--- JUNCTION CITY SCHOOLS, DOWNSVILLE SCHOOLS, AND UNION PARISH SCHOOLS ALL CLOSED EARLY TODAY.

With their words and their wallets, local outdoorsmen deemed the state's first tax holiday for hunting items a success.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal awarded Union Parish $436,855 in Bernice Wednesday while on of his Working Tour of Louisiana.

Bradley Tinsley, 22, 411 E. Fifth St., Junction City, was booked into Union Parish Detention Center on Tuesday on a charge of second-degree cruelty to a juvenile.