Benton News

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.