Sicily Island News

Natchez country has been home to many people -- great chiefs, circuit riders, surveyors, soldiers, horse hunters, tough and delicate women, and under-the-hill poets.

The federal Department of Health and Hospitals is giving Louisiana $11.7 million in Recovery Act grants to 24 community health centers around Louisiana.

The Concordia Parish Sheriff's Office arrested two men Tuesday on charges of attempted murder in connection with an April 30 shooting in Sicily Island.

Deputies from the Catahoula Parish Sheriff's Office arrested a Sicily Island woman and are looking for three others in connection with a shooting there Thursday night.

West Monroe police on Wednesday evening charged Terry Dewayne Atkins Jr., 811 Newman St., Sicily Island, with possession of marijuana and possession of Xanax.

An arrest warrant has been issued for the suspected driver in last week's car chase that stretched from Sicily Island, La., to Woodville.

OLLA - Kristian Gauge Adams, infant son of Layton and Christina Adams, died Monday.

Common sense gets a little blurry as the darkened road passes at NASCAR speeds and adrenaline rages.

Bossier Parish schools face major changes ahead High winds keep firefighters busy at Shreveport house fire Mining accident kills worker in DeSoto Parish Repo man dangers Lufkin H.S. segregating classes to help ...

Wanda and Bobby Wilson of Vidalia are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, April Deanna Wilson, to Christopher Allen Smith, son of Barbara Smith of West Monroe.

Two of the eight shooting victims at a Catahoula Parish nightclub Saturday morning have been taken to hospitals in Shreveport in serious condition.

Police arrested a 16-year-old this weekend accused of shooting eight people inside a Louisiana nightclub.

Eight people suffered multiple gunshot wounds outside a nightclub in Catahoula Parish over the weekend and a 16-year-old faces attempted first-degree murder charges.

On Jan. 2, Robert Jones was rushed to St. Francis Medical Center after an armed robber ran into his house, demanded money and pistol-whipped the 62-year-old man.

A second suspect was arrested Thursday in connection with a Jan. 2 home invasion that sent two men to the hospital.

At least three people were dumped into a water-filled gravel pit near the Catahoula Recreational Park on Saturday afternoon after their fishing boat overturned, but one of the men wasn't able to swim back to ...

A convicted rapist recently granted a furlough by Governor Haley Barbour is back in the Magnolia State.

Haley Barbour should leave the corrections business to the professionals. The Mississippi governor is drawing flak again for letting a violent criminal out of prison.

Mississippi's governor furloughed a convicted rapist to his parents' home in Louisiana, where authorities learned about it only because the man reported to the sheriff's office.

The cost of a stamp was 15 cents when Beverly Chalmers of Vidalia began working for the United States Post Office 30 years ago.