French Settlement News

GONZALES Five roads remained closed today in the wake of Thursday's heavy rainfall, but generally Ascension Parish fared well and is not expected to have any significant flooding, parish officials said.

For the third time in as many years, U.S. News and World Report has rated the nation's public high schools, this year giving Olympic-style medals to 31 schools in Louisiana.

Authorities asked for help Wednesday in identifying human bones found scattered in a wooded area in French Settlement.

Hunters searching for signs of deer in a wooded area inside the town limits of French Settlement, instead found the skeletal remains of a human.

The Livingston Parish School Board voted Thursday night to approve a federal grant application to enable the school system to spend $1.2 million on telecommunications this year.

A fire near a well known nightclub in Livingston Parish kept firefighters busy early Monday morning.

Two projects to patch, overlay or reconstruct all or portions of 70 parish roads have cleared a hurdle, with parish officials now aiming to put the work out to bid by the first quarter of 2010, parish officials said Tuesday.

Six Louisiana public schools have been dubbed national "Blue Ribbon" schools. That's a distinction bestowed by federal education officials on schools that have shown academic excellence or have made large improvements in student achievement.

Sherwood Middle Academic Magnet School and St. James Episcopal Day School, both in Baton Rouge, were named Blue Ribbon Schools of Excellence this morning by the U.S. Department of Education, two of seven in the state of Louisiana.

Livingston Parish sheriff's deputies arrested three men following three unrelated strings of burglaries in the parish.

Rebecca and Skylur Foster are far from home and close to home at the same time. The Fosters are at the end of a two-month vacation, splitting time between Natchez and French Settlement, La., visiting family and friends.

Livingston Parish authorities arrested three men in connection with some recent car burglaries spanning the north and south ends of the parish.

The Livingston Parish School Board voted unanimously Thursday night to keep most of its property tax rates for this year the same as 2008.