Monroe News

'It's still increasing in intensity now,' Monroe radio weather forecaster Don Wheeler said of Dolly on Tuesday evening as he tracked the storm's path.

Monroe police said today that the two men found dead in a Monroe home on June 29 died after shooting each other.

A 3-month old infant is in the hospital for what investigators say are injuries sustained after the baby's mother, a Monroe woman, shook the infant on several occasions.

Wildlife rehabilitator David Daniels and West Monroe firefighters teamed up Monday to rescue a Mississippi Kite chick that fell from its nest at 706 N. Fifth St.

A company in Spokane, Washington, is redesigning physical education classes in Morehouse Parish public schools.

The West Monroe man who pleaded guilty in March to driving drunk and causing a multiple vehicle wreck on Forsythe Avenue at Marie Place was sentenced this afternoon to 18 years at hard labor.

Haddox, Freeland, Bell, Shirley, Plunk, Oakes, East, Nixon, and Patrick. What do these folks have in common? Sum it up in two words -- racing families.

Louisiana's only state-supported College of Pharmacy received a full six-year accreditation extension through June 30, 2014.

A West Monroe man was in stable condition with a bullet would in his right shoulder after being shot Saturday morning.

If Gov. Bobby Jindal was hoping the anger among some state lawmakers would eventually subside in light of his veto of a legislative pay raise, he can rest assured some of them will remain ticked off for awhile.

Voters will decide just three local elections in the fall election cycle. That's the case following the close of qualifying, which took place July 9-11. In contested elections locally, Monroe City Court Judge ...

A shooting in West Monroe leaves one man in the hospital and one in the Ouachita Correctional Center.

A former Monroe City Schools administrator won $246,000 in a judgment against the school district for wrongful termination.

Metro Narcotics agents arrested a former Monroe police officer and two others Thursday afternoon on drug charges.

SHREVEPORT - The man who was killed when an 18-wheeler careened across Interstate 20 and crashed into his pickup has been identified as 49-year-old Lanny W. Franks, of West Monroe, according to the Caddo Parish ...

State police this morning were working a wreck involving an 18-wheeler on Interstate 20 near Calhoun.

Federal Food and Drug Administration agents, along with State Police investigators, raided a West Monroe business Thursday, but would not discuss the reason for the sealed federal search warrant.

A state fire marshal and a private detective returned to the scene of a house fire Thursday to look for the cause of the deliberately-set blaze.

State police and agents with the Food and Drug Administration are executing a search warrant at 3602 Cypress Street in West Monroe .

A Monroe City Schools board member today added an agenda item for the board's next meeting Aug.