Bogalusa News

Janice 'Boo' Macomber was born to a Cajun father and a Sicilian mother. She spent her early years in Abbeville, her high school years in Bogalusa and her post-college years in New Orleans' French Quarter.

Churches across Louisiana involved in the EKG - Experiencing Kingdom Growth - three-part process over the last 18 months met together for a celebration dinner during the annual meeting of the Louisiana Baptist Convention in early November.

BATON ROUGE, La. -- Salary costs have jumped in Louisiana's education department, even as the number of full-time employees dropped, and the number of people drawing six-figure paychecks has more than doubled in the two years since Paul Pastorek took charge of the agency.

EGAN Healthcare Services is an approved provider of H1N1 vaccines, with nearly 5000 vaccines available immediately for distribution in the form of intranasal and injection.

Maybe if the Postsecondary Education Review Commission had a member like Treasurer John Kennedy, the chief bomb thrower on the Streamlining Commission, people would pay more attention to it.

Bogalusa Mayor Mack McGehee, City Marshal Wayne Adams and two others have pleaded not guilty to bribery and other charges from last year's election for city marshal.

During his tenure as dean of the Opelousas campus of Louisiana Technical College, known best locally by the name it has carried for generations, Smith hopes to restore the school to its former status as a leader in technical education.

Would you get out and vote the day after Christmas? For many it's not exactly the ideal ballot-casting time.

An alleged Ku Klux Klan member on Tuesday morning was found competent to stand trial in connection with the killing of an Oklahoma woman who reportedly tried to back out of a Klan initiation ceremony last year in St.

Louisiana's use of technology in schools and the overall system has brought recognition in a national survey but Superintendent of Education Paul Pastorek says the best thing is that it keeps students involved in learning.

A Bogalusa family told Eyewitness News Friday, they believe bond was set too low for an accused killer, and they are now worried about their safety.

In a joint effort with state health and education officials, the St. Tammany Parish School Board plans to offer free swine flu vaccinations to the district's students and employees.

A new early-voting satellite location will be in operation for the New Orleans city elections in February, according to a plan approved Thursday by a joint House-Senate committee.

Louisiana should consider overhauling the TOPS scholarship program, charging standardized tuition rates for core undergraduate instruction and eliminating state subsidies for university research, the head of the Louisiana State University System said Monday.

The following people were booked into the Lafayette Parish Correctional Center before 10:02 a.m. Sunday.

STAFF PHOTO BY CHUCK COOK James Magee is led by Detective Jerry Hall, right, into the St.

Slidell Police say a local man was spying on a Bogalusa woman from her grandmother's attic! Aaron P. Morphis is under arrest on a voyeurism charge.

Dr. Gerald Berenson, founder and director of the Bogalusa Heart Study , is this year's recipient of the Cecil J. Picard Award for Excellence in Education to Prevent Childhood Obesity.

Attorneys are expected to begin selecting jurors Wednesday, in the case of a man accused of shooting and killing his wife and five-year-old son in April 2007.

Aaron White, director at the door, said the organization is starting a program called Project Scene, which is designed to get the youth who whose the centre interested in community service.