Pineville News

BATON ROUGE - The Commission on Streamlining Government so far e has ndorsed 134 proposals covering a wide array of issues and they're "not finished yet," the panel's chairman says.

Organizers are recruiting Central Louisiana women ages 18 and older to try out for a team that will compete in the Women's Flat Track Derby Association, a national roller derby organization.

Like the syrup made at the annual Kent Plantation House Sugar Day, the festival is a mixture of the right ingredients that add up to one sweet experience.

Gov. Bobby Jindal challenged the First Baptist Church congregation Sunday morning to "plant seeds" of faith throughout the community.

Leigh Michelle Urban and John Tyler Martin, both of Poland, were married on Saturday, September 19, 2009.

The Louisiana Business Group on Health and several other local groups will host an educational symposium on Monday at the Pineville Convention Center at the Country Inn & Suites, 2727 Monroe Highway in Pineville.

An early Saturday morning crash ended with two pedestrians being hit, a car driving through the wall of a senior apartment building and hitting a vehicle before finally stopping.

An accident involving an 18-wheeler on La. Highway 28 East in Pineville has caused traffic to back up on the Cottingham Expressway.

A Pineville child care center whose license to operate was revoked by the state last week is appealing the decision.

Gov. Bobby Jindal channeled the man many have compared him to during his speech at the Alexandria Veterans Affairs Medical Center's Veterans Day Program Wednesday.

Rapides Parish Crime Stoppers is looking for information about the person behind an Oct.

All city offices in Alexandria, Pineville and Ball and all Rapides Parish offices will be closed tomorrow in observance of Veteran's Day.

Veterans Day in Rapides Parish will take on a different look and feel this year on the north side of the Red River.

The forecast for Central Louisiana calls for a few showers, a light wind out of the north and the chance of visitors otherwise known as evacuees.

Cenla Advantage Partnership is offering help to International Paper's Pineville Mill workers and contractors who may be considering starting or growing their own businesses.

By Mike Hasten Louisiana Gannett News mhasten@gannett.com BATON ROUGE -- School superintendents across Louisiana want to know the details of what they stand to gain or lose by participating in the federal "Race to the Top" program that's aimed at improving weak schools.

The Louisiana Workforce Commission's Rapid Response Team will open an onsite transition center to provide services for the workers who will be laid off in December from International Paper's Pineville Mill.

Monroe Police released the name of the woman who died Friday afternoon after falling off the Lea Joyner Expressway overpass.

The surviving pilot of a fatal in-air crash that killed two people says he tried unsuccessfully to avoid the collision, according to the National Transportation Safety Board's preliminary report.

Alexandria Police officers said four people -- three men and a 15-year-old -- were in a vehicle in which crack cocaine and a stolen firearm were found.