Tunica News

The West Feliciana Parish Police Jury voted 5-2 after a contentious debate Tuesday to pay $95,000 for a study of future traffic patterns along much of U.S. 61 in the parish.

In April 1716 a dozen signs were placed along the banks of the Mississippi warning voyagers that there was trouble on the river.

"For those who live out their lives there, Angola is the world. Eighteen thousand acres of land elbow out into the brown current of the Mississippi.

ANGOLA - A convicted murderer who escaped from Louisiana's top-security prison was captured on Monday partly because of a tip from an 8-year-old boy who spotted the man outside his school, the prison warden said.

Students who attend Tunica Elementary School will be bused Monday to two other West Feliciana Parish schools away from the area where authorities are looking for an escaped Louisiana State Penitentiary inmate , school officials said today .

The Angola chase team is still combing the Tunica Hills Thursday night, hoping to find an escaped inmate missing since 11 o'clock Thursday morning.

Henry Smith escaped while picking up litter on the Angola prison grounds. A Louisiana State Penitentiary chase team is following a trail in the Tunica Hills Thursday for an inmate believed to have escaped from his assigned job of picking up litter on the grounds of the maximum-security prison at Angola.

Small businesses in seven Louisiana parishes and five Mississippi counties are eligible to apply for low-interest federal disaster loans.

The family of the late Lloyd L. Lindsey Jr. heard an outpouring of praise Tuesday for the leader of West Feliciana Parish schools for 16 years.