Belle Rose News

A Belle Rose man was sentenced Tuesday to serve life in prison after he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the strangulation death of an 84-year-old woman, District Attorney Ricky Babin said.

BELLE ROSE, La. - A New Orleans woman was arrested for kidnapping a 2-year-old girl this past weekend, officials said.

BELLE ROSE, La. A fight in the street in Belle Rose led to the shooting of an 18-year-old man, who eventually had to be air lifted to a Baton Rouge hospital, according to the Assumption Parish Sheriff's Office.

Philip August sat backstage in the Assumption High School gymnasium Saturday, waiting his turn to speak to an audience of children and parents.

MidCity Prayer Breakfast: 8 a.m., Piccadilly Restaurant, 3164 Government St., with Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church's Pastor's Support Ministry as host and 1st Circuit Court of Appeal Judge John Michael Guidry as speaker.