Cottonport News

The following private schools in Central Louisiana parishes will accept vouchers: Avoyelles St.

Holy Saviour Menard is participating in the Louisiana Scholarship Program next school year, despite being left off a list of participating schools released Tuesday by the Department of Education.

Advocate staff photo by RICHARD ALAN HANNON State Sen. Robert Adley, R-Benton, guided Monday Senate Bill 555 through a vote by the full Senate.

Three state prisons could close, sending 2,700 inmates to local jails and another 940 to other state institutions because of cuts now included in the Louisiana's budget, corrections officials told the Senate Finance Committee Monday.

In light of Texas inmate Keith Judd's surprising 41-percent performance against President Barack Obama in West Virginia, another little-known Obama foe insists Judd isn't the only Democrat putting points on the board against the incumbent.