Tallulah News

Most of the children who live in private group homes in Louisiana are there because the state has removed them from homes where they were neglected or abused.

Bastrop-Morehouse Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Dorothy Ford believes the possibilities resulting from the construction of an Interstate 69 spur coming through northeastern Louisiana are endless.

Louisiana tourism officials have unveiled the first 26 sites on an African American Heritage Trail running from New Orleans to northern Louisiana.

A 61-year-old Tallulah trial attorney has been sentenced in federal court on tax evasion and filing false corporate and personal income tax returns.

A Pennsylvania couple accused in a Vicksburg bank robbery and an attempted holdup in Tallulah, La., will be tried in Pennsylvania, where they faces charges in two other robberies.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Rep. Rodney Alexander, R-Quitman, announced today that the Department of Transportation will award a grant to Vicksburg/Tallulah Regional Airport totaling $1,960,000. The funding will ...

When Don Cravins Sr. left the state Senate to campaign successfully for mayor of Opelousas, we were concerned that a strong advocate for improvements in the juvenile- justice system had withdrawn from the ...

Thinking of Memorial Day, I could not help but wonder if high school students know the meaning or the reason we have such a day on our calendar.

BATON ROUGE - Far too many Lafayette area juveniles are incarcerated at the Jetson Center for Youth near Baton Rouge, the director of the state juvenile justice office says, so closing that facility and moving ...

Marissa A. McGill, 13, had just finished the eighth grade at Presbyterian Christian High School and was moving with her family to Texas.

BATON ROUGE - Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration is supporting a plan to shut down a state juvenile prison near Louisiana's capital city and send its teenage inmates to facilities better equipped to educate ...

The state fire marshal roped off the grounds of the old Tallulah high school Wednesday waiting for the building to be inspected for safety.

What some describe as a historical landmark in the city of Tallulah was gutted in a fire.

Bond has been set at $201,000 for an inmate who escaped from the Richland Parish Detention Center, stole a deputy's personal vehicle and led police on a high-speed chase for crashing the vehicle.

“We have always been proud to provide quality health care to our patients regardless of where they live, and we hope we will be able to continue doing so”

A Vicksburg, Miss. acute care hospital frequently utilized by Louisiana residents is preparing to sever services to Louisiana Medicaid patients because of what it deems insufficient reimbursement rates. via News-Star

TALLULAH -- The Madison Parish Sheriff's Office is investigating the apparent gunshot death of a high school student. via The Shreveport Times

Mary Ann Newton, president of the West Monroe-West Ouachita Chamber of Commerce, recently attended the Business and Professional Women's Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C. Alan Stephenson of Stephenson & ... via News-Star

The curtain fell softly on Impresario's Choice, with a scant crowd of 800 gathered two weeks back for an intriguing presentation of 'Forever Tango.' That was it, after 10 years of presenting a Broadway theater ... via News-Star

Recently, the Heart Gallery, which features the portraits of children and teenagers in the foster care system who are searching for a permanent, adoptive family, made its way to the Biedenharn Museum. via News-Star

“There was one customer in the bank and he waited for her to finish her business and leave.”

Law enforcement officials in Tallulah and Vicksburg, Miss., were searching late today for a suspect wanted for attempting to rob one bank and actually robbing another. via News-Star