Krotz Springs News

A staff sergeant with the U.S. Air Force plans to claim justifiable homicide when he stands trial next month for manslaughter in the May 2010 shooting death of his wife's ex-husband. Police say Jason and Twaila Rolls had been married for only a few hours when Michael Hall showed up at their Krotz Springs home.

The old saying goes, sometimes the good suffer for the bad, and in this case the good, a single mother and her four children are now on the streets, evicted from their public housing after the father is arrested.

This year's St. Landry Parish royalty are Miss St. Landry Parish Chancie Gravouilla, Miss Port Barre Victoria Gallien, Miss Krotz Springs Jacqueline Fett and Miss Opelousas Bailey Fournet.

Two pageants to set for May 12 will kick off the inaugural Krotz Springs Sportsmen's Heritage Festival to be held throughout the month, culminating in an event Memorial Day weekend.

It's a strange paradox that southwest Louisiana rice farmers are increasingly in need of fresh water while just to the east flows one of the largest river systems in the world.