Pineville News

For 24 years, First Baptist Church of Dry Prong has brought Vacation Bible School to churches throughout Louisiana, in other states and even Honduras.

BATON ROUGE - Rep. Herbert Dixon is trying to head off a move that could lead to downgrading the amount of services at Huey P. Long Medical Center in Pineville.

MONROE - For the 29 contestants in the 2009 Miss Louisiana Pageant, years of perseverance were put to the test anew in the second round of competition in the race to garner the state's top crown.

The Miss Louisiana Pageant is under way in Monroe. Brittany McGehee, a piano pedagogy and communication studies major at Bryan College, and Katie Cook, a community health-pre-occupational therapy major at Louisiana State University-Shreveport, won the opening night pageant preliminaries Thursday.

A 51-year-old Grant Parish woman has been arrested in the shooting death of a Pineville man.

The 2009 College World Series got underway Saturday afternoon, though getting to and from Rosenblatt Stadium isna t always fun and games.

PINEVILLE - Farewell, Huey. The Louisiana National Guard said goodbye to the last of its UH-1V helicopters during the past week as they departed for Killeen, Texas, from Esler Field near Pineville.

In celebration of the 65,546 Christmas shoeboxes given from the state of Louisiana last year, Kingsville Baptist in Pineville hosted the recent Operation Christmas Child statewide meeting.

PINEVILLE - The Louisiana National Guard bid a fond farewell to the last of its UH-1V helicopters as they departed for Killeen, Texas, from Esler Field in Pineville this week.

In celebration of the 65,546 Christmas shoeboxes given from the state of Louisiana last year, Kingsville Baptist in Pineville hosted the recent Operation Christmas Child statewide meeting.

PINEVILLE - Lt. Col. John R. LeBlanc of Lafayette recently assumed his new command as the deputy commander of the 204th Theater Airfield Opera-tions Group, Rear Detach-ment, of the Louisiana National Guard.

I'll appreciate your prayers for the Lord's leadership in preparing messages and for His preparation in the hearts and minds of the people who will receive this ministry.

A former teacher at Holy Savior Menard Central High School in Alexandria has pleaded guilty to three felony charges and received a 10-year sentence, with 5 of those years suspended.

Investigators from the Louisiana State Police Criminal Investigations Division/Alexandria Field Office arrested Knud Bejer Morris of 323 Janet Drive, Pineville, LA yesterday on charges of Aggravated Rape and Cruelty to Juveniles.

Alliene and Johnny McDonald of Farmerville, La. and Sandy and Maurice Harris of Grayson, La.

Out of the many things that I have done in my life, I hope to be remembered as a ragpicker.

Outstanding graduates chosen to represent the eight academic colleges at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette will be honored during Sunday's 5:30 p.m. commencement exercises at the Cajundome.

I asked my daddy one day, "What is Luffey's last name?" Luffey was all I knew. When he was pitching for the Alexandria Aces, my family was living in Pineville and my daddy was the head football coach at Louisiana College, Luffey brought me about half a dozen baseballs.

Soldiers from the Louisiana Army National Guard's 225th Engineer Brigade of Pineville provided medical training to the 11th Iraqi Army Engineer Regiment in the northeastern Baghdad district of Adhamiyah on Wednesday.

The attorney for a Pineville man who police say shot a teen to death in a "drug deal gone bad" told a jury that her client was acting in self-defense to save the life of his fiancA© and unborn child.