Lake Providence News

For 35 years, Denny Taylor has given northeastern Louisiana his all as an entertainer.

Crystal Marie Pye and Jesse Daniel Mathes were united in marriage on October 17 at First Baptist Church in Bastrop.

Two days after Huey Long was shot in September 1935 in that magnificent capitol building he built, a stones throw from the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge, the Kingfish died.

Rosemary Dillingham and Ben and Nancy Dillingham of Monroe, La. are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Holly Michelle Dillingham, to John Brandon Sullivan, son of John and Treasa Sullivan of Forest, La.

FLOWER MOUND, Texas -- Kaye Evans, formerly of West Monroe, a retired school psychologist, died Tuesday.

Tommy Waldrop realized nearly three decades ago there was a need for a reliable small-engine business in northeastern Louisiana.

Briarfield Academy in Lake Providence is hosting a 40-year reunion of all classes that have graduated from the school, Oct.

No governor in recent memory has traveled so frequently and with such unabashed enthusiasm to remote corners of our state as Bobby Jindal has.

The tortuous legal road to William Jefferson's conviction ended last week in Alexandria, Va.

Alice McMillan and Joy Bible had been waiting more than 30 years for a Louisiana governor to visit their small village in West Carroll Parish before Gov.

Gov. Bobby Jindal will continue his 'Louisiana Working Tour' in northeastern Louisiana on Monday with an address to the Lake Providence Chamber of Commerce at noon at the Cotton Museum.

Gov. Bobby Jindal will continue his "Louisiana Working Tour" in northeastern Louisiana on Monday with an address to the Lake Providence Chamber of Commerce at noon at the Cotton Museum.

The Rev. Michael Owens says nothing compares with dunking someone toward salvation.

U.S. Sen. David Vitter announced Thursday that he had secured more than $16.1 million in federal funding for northeastern Louisiana projects in the Senate's Energy and Water Appropriations Bill, which passed the U.S. Senate this week.

Mr. and Mrs. Jerry R. Pye of Bastrop are pleased to announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Crystal Marie, to Jesse Daniel Mathes, son of Mr.

David and Sarah Keiffer gladly accept the fact that their Freret Street home is a work in progress.

Lynda Bunch-Carmouch returns to her northern Louisiana roots Saturday to deliver a strong message about domestic violence and what it does to families and communities.

So what did city workers uncover when they dug beneath the surface of a southern Monroe street last week? A tunnel, where a prominent 19th century Monroe man hid his mistress? A source of water supply? An icehouse, or means of refrigeration? A gravesite or crypt? There was no shortage of suggestions about what the subterranean brick archway ...

The Louisiana Association of Museums has named the Cotton Museum in Lake Providence the Museum of the Year.

LAKE PROVIDENCE, La. - State police say an East Carroll Parish Detention Center guard apparently shot and killed his 33-year-old wife and then himself Sunday afternoon in their Lake Providence home.