Deville News

A man and a child riding an ATV on a public road were killed Sunday when the machine collided with a pickup trying to avoid it.

With the current state of the U.S. economy and high-unemployment rates, Ricky Belgard sees this as a moment everyone should take the time to pray.

Gabriel Nichols, 4, looks up at a Coast Guard vessel Tuesday at the fourth annual Cenla Public Safety Expo at the Rapides Parish Coliseum.

A check of the state Sex Offender and Child Predator Registry found 374 sex offenders registered with the Rapides Parish Sheriff's Office.

Hours after a May 2009 emergency appendectomy at Rapides Regional Medical Center, a patient testified Wednesday he fled the hospital recovery room after he awoke from surgery to find Phillip Raines, then a RRMC nurse, assaulting him sexually with his hands and mouth.