Benton News

Sara LaVerne Paris Maggio, 78, a long-time resident of Bossier City passed away Wednesday, February 8, 2012 after a lengthy illness.

The Bossier Parish School Board has settled on two of three priority items for the first phase with the proposed $210million construction bond.

After Day 1 at the Pontchartrain Center in Kenner, Bossier was in fifth place in Division III at press time while Parkway and Benton were seventh and ninth, respectively in Division II.

Members of Bossier Parish School Board's Planning and Development Committee spent Thursday evening focusing on details of a potential elementary school in the north Bossier area to relieve an influx of students in recent years filling Benton and Legacy elementary schools.

With the Giants' victory in the rear-view mirror it is time to look at who could win next year.

BENTON, La. - A teenager convicted of killing his parents at their western Ouachita Parish home, has been sentenced to life in prison.

Last night local and state authorities found a Sodium Sulfite leak in one of the train cars near Benton and Viking Drive in Bossier City.

BENTON, La. -- Few people make it to their 77th wedding anniversary but one Benton, LA couple can boast about it.

Celebrating a birthday today: Rubin Madison, of Benton. ... Walter Williams IV, of Shreveport.

Celebrating a birthday today: Jesse Roberson, son of the late Elsee and Donzell Roberson, of Saugus, Calif.

The single engine Cessna 172 is parked in a World War II-era hangar on the grounds of the Monroe... BENTON, La.

A sentencing hearing is under way in the case of a Benton man convicted of manslaughter in the death of a co-worker at a Shreveport car dealership.

Clark, Ray, 88, of Gibsland, died Monday; services at 2 p.m. Saturday at Springfield Baptist Church, Gibsland; burial in Mount Lebanon Cemetery, Gibsland; arrangements by Paradise Funeral Home, Arcadia.

The town of Benton will soon have to decide on its leader for the remainder of 2012, and possibly beyond.