Swartz News

For many, there is little to celebrate during the holidays when they have lost a loved one.

Jim Turner, a graduate of the LSU AgCenter Master Gardener Course, will present a program, "Composting: Garden Alchemy That Changes Trash into Organic Gold" at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov.

Ouachita Parish deputies arrested Daisy Windham, 21, of 2009 Roggerson Road, Monroe, and Jessica Garvan, 21, of 213 Delery Road, Swartz on Tuesday.

Prior to returning to teaching, I had worked with nine principals, 10 different coaches and five superintendents.

Ouachita Parish deputies arrested a man Thursday afternoon suspected of hitting his son with an extension cord.

Louisiana 134 at Fairbanks was reopened to traffic Friday after being closed most of the week because of construction.

What: Opening reception for annual art faculty exhibition When: 5 p.m. Thursday Where: Bry Art Gallery, ULM Cost: Free Info: 342-1372, www.ulm.edu/art/exhibits.html The faculty of the University of Louisiana at Monroe Division of Art will be on hand for the opening reception of the 2009 Annual Art Faculty Exhibition beginning at 5 p.m.

The theme for Cross Camp '09 was short but an effective directive - BE. Be relentless; be engaged; be inspired; be Holy; be encouraging; be whatever God wants you to be were just some of the ways the word was tied into simple sayings that were repeated over and over again to campers.

A 52-year-old Covington man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for looking up sexually explicit images involving juveniles on a public library computer, possessing similar images at his residence and possessing marijuana.

A 52-year-old Covington man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for looking up sexually explicit images involving juveniles on a public library computer, possessing similar images at his residence and possessing marijuana.

Two men have been indicted by a Ouachita Parish grand jury on second-degree murder and another for aggravated rape.

A Monroe man is in jail this afternoon charged with first degree murder. The suspect is Jason Ray Davis, 23 of Monroe.

Ouachita Parish sheriff's detectives charged a Monroe man with first-degree murder Tuesday following the investigation of a bloodstained truck left in a Swartz car wash.

Ouachita Parish sheriff's deputies took a Monroe man to jail today in connection with a double murder from 2002.

Louisiana State Troopers charged Rebecca D. Moseley, 33, of 131 Swarz School Road, Lot 51, with driving while intoxicated, first offense; driving under suspension; nd driving with fog lights on.

A 37-year-old man has been convicted of robbing mother-and-daughter employees at a Sonic Drive-in in Mandeville last year.