New Roads News

It's almost here: Mardi Gras 2012! In less than two weeks, New Roads will celebrate its 90th annual Mardi Gras celebration, the state's oldest outside New Orleans.

Glenn Everett says, "Your recent stories about speeders and the last word brought to mind hearing a gentleman explaining to the judge that he was driving over 90 mph because he was low on gas and was trying to reach a gas station before he ran out." "I convinced the car hop I was 18 by showing him my graduation ring so I could buy 'root beer.' " ... (more)

The Addis Firemen's Parade, marking the 50th anniversary of the Addis Volunteer Fire Department, is set to roll at 11 a.m. Sunday.

This happened after their parents and teachers listened to a presentation by Arden Bucklin-Sporer, an advocate for school garden programs and executive director of the San Francisco Green Schoolyard Alliance.

Romell Lewis, 28, New Roads, bench warrant for failure to appear for domestic abuse battery Vernon Powell, 31, Baker, bench warrant for failure to appear for simple battery and fugitive through East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office Jaquesha Hives, 19, Baton Rouge, booked for theft of goods Angelique Williams, 20, Baton Rouge, booked for theft of goods ... (more)

Arden Bucklin Sporer, executive director of the San Francisco Green Schoolyard Alliance, is scheduled to discuss school gardens at 1 p.m. Monday at the Pointe Coupee Civic Center, 1200 Major Parkway, New Roads.

A map of the area near Hooper Road and Corlett Drive where law enforcement authorities are searching for a suspected fugitive on Thursday, Jan.

Grace was charged in September 2010 with racketeering, extortion, obstruction of justice, false statements, bribery, mail fraud, wire fraud and use of a telephone in aid of racketeering as part of the FBI's "Operation Blighted Officials" sting.

Several hundred people hold a right-to-life march from St. Edmund Catholic Church to St.