Lena News

GORUM - A one-vehicle crash Tuesday night proved fatal for a Lena man who died after the vehicle in which he was a passenger hit a tree.

GORUM - State police say a Lena man died in a single-vehicle accident in Natchitoches Parish.

A single vehicle crash involving an unlicensed young teenager has killed him. Troopers responded to the crash today around 4:30 pm, which occurred on LA Hwy 490 approximately four miles east of LA Hwy 1. The crash involved a 2002 Ford pickup, driven by Kenneth Brossette of Lena, LA.

LENA - An elderly Rapides Parish man has died in a fire at his mobile home. According to a release from State Fire Marshal H. Butch Browning, 72-year-old Glendon Rice was home alone when the fire ripped through his mobile home late Wednesday night.

LENA - Two workers were injured in a crane accident Tuesday morning at Cleco's Rodemacher plant in the Lena-Boyce area of northwest Rapides Parish, officials said.

Justin Sigler, 19, of Natchitoches, pled guilty to trying to scare a resident in Lena, Louisiana, simply because he was black.