Monroe News

Kiroli is better known, having been established many years ago. Kiroli has many facilities for the whole family to enjoy including walking trails that are paved and maintained and some of God's nature that He has created for all of us to enjoy.

CASA of Northeast Louisiana has more than 100 foster children in need of advocates to speak on their behalf for the courts.

The following professionals have joined Affinity Health Group: Robin Burchfield; Gloria Crews; Lula Grimes; Pam McCormick; Kimberly Oliver; and Lindsay Romero.

July comes to an end and that means only one thing -- the start of school cannot be far behind.

Parents of the couple are Janet Sorenson of West Monroe, Louisiana, and the late Richard Sorensen, and Larry and Johnette Norris of Monroe, Louisiana.

An August wedding is planned at First Baptist Church in West Monroe, Louisiana.

Parents of the bride are Shirley Wilkes and Bobby and Donna Johnson all of Columbia, Louisiana.

Vicki Smith manages the Colonial Grove Apartments on DeSiard Street. Lisa Patrick is the principal at Jesus Good Shepherd Catholic School.

The organizers of the 2014 Mt. Zion Baptist Church Women's Conference have planned an array of activities for Aug. 8-9 to address the spiritual, physical, financial and emotional needs of women.

Monroe police responded to a rape complaint Friday night. Assistant Police Chief Don Bartley said the 24-year-old female victim was located on Lionel Street.

Monroe police responded to an armed robbery Saturday morning at the Circle K on Sterlington Road.

Monroe police responded to a shooting Saturday morning on Lee Avenue. Assistant Police Chief Don Bartley said a juvenile victim was walking home from a party on Peach Street when he heard a vehicle approach him from behind.

Late Friday night, the sheriff's deputy saw Brandy Duchesne, 29, of 755 Ole Highway 15 walking along Arkansas Road in West Monroe.

A woman was arrested after accepting an offer for a ride by a Ouachita Parish sheriff's deputy.

Birthdays Devin Duncan, West Monroe; Cymantha Lee, 23, Swartz; Patricia Mullenix, Hebert; , Farmerville; James Townsend; Dustin Valentine, West Monroe Belated James Thomas, West Monroe Saturday Friends of the Ouachita Parish Public Library Book Sale is 9 a.m.-3 p.m. at the West Ouachita Branch, 188 Louisiana 546.

First Presbyterian Church of Monroe is having a church-wide yard sale from 6 a.m.-noon Saturday at 1201 Stubbs Ave. Household items, furniture, baby items, lawn equipment, electronics, clothes and more.

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Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson, who sports a long beard, lives off the land, and boldly shares the Gospel is, in a way, a prophet like John the Baptist, said his son, Alan Robertson, adding that John the Baptist "lost his head for speaking the truth," and though today's culture doesn't want to hear the truth, a prophet will "speak what God ... (more)

After a five-year hiatus from his hometown, Dr. Joel Norris, an otolaryngologist, is back in Monroe treating patients he saw more than two decades ago.

Former Rayville Public Works Director Arad Lorenzo Brown faces up to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty Friday in 5th District Court to five counts of malfeasance in office.