Monroe News

State senators on Tuesday killed a $3.5 billion public school funding proposal submitted to lawmakers by the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, because of concerns about proposed changes to payments for special education and gifted students.

On May 20, 2013, at 7:09 a.m., Troopers assigned to Louisiana State Police Troop F responded to a single vehicle fatal crash on Louisiana Highway 15 south of Louisiana Highway 841.

This undated photo provided by A&E, shows Willie Robertson, star of A&E s Duck Dynasty, at his desk in his office at the Duck Commander warehouse in West Monroe, La.

A mosquito pool collected in Ouachita Parish has tested positive for West Nile Virus.

Court will resume at 9 a.m. Thursday. Jurors will hear closing arguments in the case before they begin deliberating.

Connie McGee sells a Powerball ticket to Cherri Cook, from Monroe, Wednesday at Louisville U-Pak-It. The jackpot was $360 million before Wednesday night's drawing.

At 2:15 p.m., Monroe Police responded to a battery call that involved a shovel in the 900 block of S. 9th St.

Around 3:30 a.m. Tuesday morning, the Ouachita Parish Sheriff's Department arrested 22-year-old West Monroe woman, Jimmie Janae Wilburn, for Domestic Abuse Aggravated Assault and Domestic Abuse Battery.

Graduating high school senior girls interested in sorority rush at colleges and universities during the fall or spring terms of the upcoming year may pick up a Rush Information Form at The Cotton Patch, 607 Louisville Ave., Monroe.

Monroe fire fighters responded to a house fire in south Monroe just before noon Monday.

This weekend, May 17th through 19th, the Dragon Boat Races will be held on Bayou Desiard in Monroe.

The Ouachita Parish Sheriff's Office needs your help in locating a runaway juvenile.

West Monroe Police Detectives need your help in identifying local shoplifting suspects.

Opening statements have been given and testimony has begun in former Monroe City Councilman's Arthur Gilmore's federal racketeering and extortion retrial.

U.S. Sen. David Vitter today announced staff satellite office hours for residents of Tensas and Jackson Parishes.

The Ouachita Parish Public Library is participating in the nearly 94th Annual Children's Book Week, May 13-19, with a week-long celebration of the children and young adult authors and illustrators of Louisiana, hosting two young adult authors and a children's author at two of their branches.

The city of Monroe has torn down 70 dilapidated structures so far this year, and more are to face the same fate.

The University of Louisiana at Monroe held its Spring 2013 Commencement ceremonies Saturday morning, and each graduate was given a pen.

Rep. Frank Hoffmann, R-West Monroe, said Friday his bill to give local school districts more flexibility in selecting textbooks has been wrongfully characterized as being about teaching creationism in the classroom.

Monroe's Hadley Street Bridge will be renamed the Coach Dorth Blade Memorial Bridge to honor the late Ouachita Parish police juror.