Lake Providence News

Lynda Bunch-Carmouch returns to her northern Louisiana roots Saturday to deliver a strong message about domestic violence and what it does to families and communities.

So what did city workers uncover when they dug beneath the surface of a southern Monroe street last week? A tunnel, where a prominent 19th century Monroe man hid his mistress? A source of water supply? An icehouse, or means of refrigeration? A gravesite or crypt? There was no shortage of suggestions about what the subterranean brick archway ...

The Louisiana Association of Museums has named the Cotton Museum in Lake Providence the Museum of the Year.

LAKE PROVIDENCE, La. - State police say an East Carroll Parish Detention Center guard apparently shot and killed his 33-year-old wife and then himself Sunday afternoon in their Lake Providence home.

An Oak Grove man died Saturday in a West Carroll Parish car crash. According to a news release by Louisiana State Police Troop F, 50-year-old Mitchell Dye, a passenger, died of critical injuries Saturday evening at St.

Saturday and Sunday the annual Soul Food and Heritage Festival will be at the grounds of the Byerley House on Lake Street in Lake Providence.

The LSU AgCenter has announced the schedule for Louisiana Master Farmer field days and workshops for 2009.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. - The process of selecting a jury for the corruption trial of former U.S. Rep.

'Note to self,' I thought, as I hoofed it around the sidewalk and into my daughter's subdivision, 'take your walk earlier or later tomorrow, but don't go on for a little mid-morning exercise in Houston in May.

"We're here to praise Bill Jefferson, " banker Charles Teamer told a crowd of supporters gathered for a celebration of the ex-congressman's service Thursday night, "not to bury him." And indeed, the tragedy of Jefferson's story is that, despite his legal travails, he does have plenty to celebrate.

Shellie Tomlinson's warmth, wit and Southern-spiced wisdom has been recognized as something special by the Southern Independent Booksellers Association, which has nominated her "Suck Your Stomach In and Put Some Color On! - What Southern Mamas Tell their Daughters that the Rest of Y'all Should Know Too" for the 2009 nonfiction book of the year ...

Monroe City Schools Human Resources Director Betty Carroll said the district received more than 20 applications for the principal's position at Martin Luther King Middle School - most from out of district and some from out of state.

Jimmy and Betty Sullivan of Forest, La. are pleased to announce the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Lindsey Hope Sullivan, to James Durward McFarland, son of Johnny and Charlotte McFarland of Downsville, La.

The Dust Poets, a five-piece acoustic folk-pop group with roots deep in the Canadian prairie, have arrived in northeast Louisiana where they will spend a week touring and performing at different venues.

A few weeks ago, I was traveling through north Louisiana to a conference. As we neared Lake Providence, I couldn't help but notice hundreds of parked rail cars.

Four guards at the East Carroll Parish Detention Center in Lake Providence have been arrested on charges of malfeasance in office and introducing contraband into a penal facility.

Frank D. Bancroft walked into the West Carroll Parish jail nearly 21 years ago, killed a deputy and then released bothers Frank James Caston and Sonny James Caston.

A 3-year-old girl died Tuesday after collapsing at Delta Head Start in Lake Providence.

An investigation is now underway to determine how a three year old girl died in Lake Providence.

A boil advisory has been issued for the East Carroll Water System South. For customers living north of the water tower in Transylvania, extending to customers living south of the railroad track in Lake ...