Jonesboro News

BATON ROUGE - While approving funding that reduced cuts to higher education and health care, state lawmakers also included $34 million to fund select projects in their districts.

Many people consider the Bible dry or difficult reading, and for this reason, it is often taken for granted.

Louisiana lawmakers already are warning us that deeper state budget cuts are ahead.

Northeastern Louisiana's most powerful legislators, committee chairs who drive much of the agenda in the state House and Senate, said the cuts made to balance the upcoming budget were mere nicks compared to what could come during the next two years.

An attempt to override Governor Bobby Jindal's rejection of $98 million in federal stimulus money to expand unemployment benefits remains stalled in the Senate Finance Committee, which delayed discussion of the proposal yesterday.

In a surprising twist, the Louisiana House gave final legislative passage Thursday to a $28 billion budget bill that ties health care and higher education to uncertain financing and assures cleanup measures will be required to fix the spending plan.

"In the abundance of water," the reggae legend Bob Marley sang, "the fool is thirsty." Imagine, then, the consequences of an abundance of fools.

Ignoring opposition from a former governor and his state school board member son, a Senate committee Thursday moved Louisiana one step closer to a high school curriculum overhaul that would allow a less academically rigorous diploma track for students who never pass the LEAP test in the eighth grade.

BATON ROUGE - Most northeastern Louisiana state representatives voted for the $27 billion budget approved by the House Thursday, but few liked it.

Achieving predictable haircolor results can be a challenge for some clients due to many factors - the consultation, colorist's understanding of the product, colorist's skill level and technique.

The Severe Thunderstorm Watch and the Flash Flood Watch for the ArkLaTex have been allowed to expire.

Tiger Pipeline Company, LLC, a subsidiary of Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners, will host an open house from 7 to 9 p.m. tonight at the Jackson Parish Community Center in Jonesboro to provide information on the construction and operation of the recently announced Tiger Pipeline Project.

Two events have been packaged for Saturday in Jonesboro with the Jackson Parish Classic and Antique Car Club's 13th annual Car Show and the sixth annual Jonesboro Sunshine Festival.

EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SHREVEPORT LA 958 PM CDT FRI MAR 27 2009 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SHREVEPORT HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WESTERN JACKSON PARISH IN NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF JONESBORO... NORTHERN WINN PARISH IN NORTH CENTRAL ...

As residents in St. Joseph and Jonesboro recover from this week's storms, more severe weather is set to strike the region Friday night.

Winds ripped across northern Louisiana on Wednesday night, disrupting power for thousands of Entergy customers.

JONESBORO - Classes were canceled Wednesday and Thursday at Jonesboro High School after a tornado struck late Tuesday evening, damaging four classrooms in the junior high building and other parts of the school.

RUSTON - Jeanne Patterson Armstrong, a homemaker, died Sunday. Arrangements are incomplete under the direction of Kilpatrick Funeral Home.

West Monroe police early today charged a Jonesboro man with driving while intoxicated, his fourth such charge.

Jonesboro-Hodge High School boys basketball coach Roderick Bradford was charged Tuesday with two counts of carnal knowledge of a juvenile.