Marksville News

Pineville Mayor Clarence Fields and four of the five Pineville City Council members were re-elected without opposition on Friday as no one qualified to run against them.

Prosecutors say they will seek the death penalty against a Chauvin man accused of breaking the arms of his girlfriend's infant son before killing him.

BY JIM BARNETT The Taensa tribe was one of the Indian groups that the La Salle Expedition encountered on its historic 1682 voyage down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico.

The inventor of "Zydecajun" will be passing through Central Louisiana at 9 p.m. Saturday to perform in the Mari Showroom at Paragon Casino Resort in Marksville.

The American Association of Retired Persons is offering free tax-preparation assistance for senior citizens and low-income residents through April 15.

ALEXANDRIA COUNTRY DAY PRESENTS "ANNIE": 2 p.m., Coughlin-Saunders Performing Arts Center, Downtown Alexandria.

The Pine Needle Basketry class will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m today, Jan. 30, at the Marksville State Historic Site, 837 Martin Luther King Dr.

Alexandria Police officers arrested a Marksville man Thursday after he allegedly drove up to a teen waiting for a bus and offered money for sex, authorities reported.

Rapides Parish Jail booking records show the following suspects were booked into the jail on felony charges: Jan.

Cottonport Police officers arrested a man they say killed his longtime girlfriend.

Comedian Bill Engvall will bring his "blue collar" comedy to a performance Feb. 19 in the Mari Showroom at Paragon Casino Resort in Marksville.

"Uncle" Jessie Dauzat was looking to make a change. He was getting tired of traveling all over Central Louisiana for his job.

A young boy reads his Bible at Life Point Church In Marksville. MARKSVILLE a ' An emphasis on meeting community needs is growing a new church that meets in an 80-year-old building on this towna TMs Main Street.

More than 585 health-care providers will meet Thursday, Jan. 21, at the Paragon Casino Resort in Marksville to learn critical skills for improving care for Louisiana's elderly.

A car crash in Pointe Coupee Parish took the life of a Lettsworth man and sent another to the hospital.

The Recording Industry Association of America's pick for the most successful R&B group of all time will perform at 9 p.m. Saturday in the Mari Showroom of the Paragon Casino Resort in Marksville.

Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard is telling council members and staffers that he will step down this afternoon because he doesn't want to be a distraction to the parish, according to council member Cynthia Lee-Sheng. Lee-Sheng said she talked to Broussard after hearing reports about a possible resignation on TV.

Investigators remained puzzled Sunday after preliminary autopsy results could not reveal what killed a man and woman who were found dead Saturday in a suburban Douglas County apartment building.

A former Union Bank employee who pleaded guilty to embezzling nearly $1 million in bank money has been sentenced to two years and three months in prison.

MARKSVILLE, La. - Avoyelles Parish District Attorney Charles Riddle says the guilty verdict of Marksville pharmacist Joe Plauche has been affirmed by the Third Circuit Court of Appeal.