Bastrop News

Three men have been sentenced for hanging a dead raccoon in a noose from a flagpole in effort to intimidate black students attending Beekman Junior High School.

Three men have been sentenced to prison terms for tying a noose around a dead raccoon's neck and hanging it from a flagpole to intimidate black students at a north Louisiana school.

Morehouse Parish Sheriff's office arrested a Bastrop firefighter on Saturday. Deputies say Chris Parker was arrested after an undercover investigation.

Officials have identified remains found last year as that of missing Bastrop man, Marcus Peoples.

Two arrests have been made in last night's shooting death of a Morehouse Parish man.

Kacie Walker and Beau Vice, both of Gonzales, La., will marry in a 7:00 p.m. ceremony April 27, 2012 at Ascension of Our Lord Catholic Church in Donaldsonville, La.

Louisiana's Democratic Party leaders are starting a 10-day tour around the state this week, to meet with local Democrats about ways to rebuild the flagging party.

During the Louisiana Rodeo Cowboys Association finals in Bastrop last November, Heflin resident Buddy Wilson and seven others were inducted into the organization's Hall of Fame.

Thomas Allen, 39, of 10386 Oklahoma St., Bastrop, was booked into Ouachita Correctional Center on charges of simple battery and sexual battery.

Monroe Police Chief Quenton Holmes swore in nine new officers and one communications officer Thursday.