Slaughter News

An exhibit of Charles Fryling Jr.'s photographs of the Atchafalaya Basin is on display through July at the Zachary branch library, 1900 Church St.

Developer David Slaughter says Capitol Lofts, the controversial apartment building planned for the north side of Spanish Town next to Arsenal Park, will include 67 units, including 18 one-bedrooms, 40 two-bedrooms, and nine three-bedrooms, and will be four stories.

The Southern University Board of Supervisors has chosen a top-ranking vice president as the interim president of the Southern system.

A spokesperson for Mayor Ray Nagin said she was unaware that the group looking into the disappearance of emails at New Orleans City Hall has a relationship with a local television station that sued the city to access those files.

Acting at the request of developer David C. Slaughter, the East Baton Rouge Parish Planning and Zoning Commission on Monday deferred until July 22 action on a proposal to build a 115-unit apartment development in Spanish Town.

Angel Nicole Guidry and Raymond Felix Mikolajczyk, III exchanged wedding vows on June 19, 2009 at Sacred Heart Church in Broussard, Rev.

Anvil Attachments , Slaughter, La., has introduced a line of grapple rebuild kits.

Two local residents are among 12 new members to be inducted into the Louisiana 4-H Hall of Fame during the grand opening of the Louisiana 4-H Museum in Mansura from 2 to 4 p.m. July 18.

The past few weeks have not been good for Renee Gill Pratt. The former New Orleans city council member who has recently been accused of racketeering, finds herself at the center of a heated debate about the appropriateness of a recommendation to terminate 14 administrative and staff positions while allowing other employees to retain their jobs.

After four years in operation, Advance Baton Rouge is splitting into two separate nonprofits, one focused on running its five charter schools, the other focused on its many other initiatives.

BATON ROUGE - State universities faced with major budget cuts are looking in 'every nook and cranny' to find ways to save money, the state's top higher education official said Tuesday.

Authorities are on the scene of a crash involving a small plane in East Feliciana Parish.

A small plane crashed near a southeast Louisiana airport Monday morning, critically injuring the pilot, a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman said.

A man whose plane crashed into an airstrip in Slaughter this morning has died, said Julie Madere, a spokeswoman for Lane Regional Medical Center.

East Feliciana Parish School Board members said Tuesday they will hold a special meeting at a later date to hear a Slaughter group's proposal to start a charter school in the southern part of the parish.

The East Feliciana Parish School Board's monthly meeting will be held at the Louisiana Technical College's Folkes Campus on Tuesday, rather than at the School Board office in Clinton.

East Feliciana Parish sheriff's deputies arrested a 24-year-old man Friday night in the slaying of another man Thursday, a spokesman for Sheriff Talmadge Bunch said.

East Feliciana Parish sheriff's deputies are investigating a Thursday afternoon shooting that left one man dead, a spokesman for Sheriff Talmadge Bunch said.

Southern University is planning a major fundraising capital campaign to raise at least $25 million in the coming years, university officials said.

The Louisiana Board of Regents has identified college and university programs which could be eliminated due to low-completion rates and halted most new academic program approvals.