Sterlington News

The third season of the Night for the Museum speaker series begins Monday with the Rev.

Sterlington resident Mary F. Munoz Burton has filed a lawsuit against the town in 4th District Court asking for damages claiming assault and battery by the police department.

The Sterlington U-Pak-It store on Louisiana 2 sold a Powerball ticket that won $1 million in Wednesday night's Powerball drawing.

The Ouachita Parish Police Jury has begun an effort to push forward a stalled project to reduce aquatic vegetation along Bayou DeSiard.

North Louisiana's annual St. Jude Children's Hospital Radiothon is scheduled for Feb.

North Louisiana's annual St. Jude Radiothon is scheduled for Feb. 8-9, co-sponsored by the Zeta Rho chapter of the women's philanthropic group Epsilon Sigma Alpha and radio stations Z-107.5 and KPCH 99.3. This year's goal is $170,000. The event will be broadcast live from Ruston's Super 1 Foods from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Feb.

Joy riders carved deep ruts in the Tensas Basin levee on Ouachita City Road near Sterlington last week, leaving the levee scarred and vulnerable as the Ouachita River remains above flood stage.

Construction could begin later this year on drainage projects around Ouachita Parish being funded with $3.7 million in federal disaster recovery monies.

Cold weather is causing construction delays for the Ouachita Parish School System on at least two major projects.

Jeremy Harrell, city president of Marion State Bank in Sterlington, and Denna McGrew, assistant director of the Children's Coalition for Northeast Louisiana have been accepted into the 2010 class of Leadership Louisiana.

Sterlington officials expect a bright new year as the town continues to build on recent successes.

It's a story that's caused quite a stir among animal lovers in Northeast Louisiana.

A Sterlington resident says he's ready to leave the town and move back to Bastrop "because apparently they don't consider themselves a part of the United States." Dewey Eugene Brown, 428 Paige Circle, filed a lawsuit in 4th District Court against the town, the mayor, town clerk, board of aldermen and the town's attorney.

Terry and Penny Roberson of Sterlington are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Mary Elizabeth Roberson, to Austin Garrett Jans, son of Darrel and Linda Jans of West Monroe.

STERLINGTON, La. -- Sterlington police are looking for whoever set a cat on fire.

The St. Martin Parish Sheriff's Office says a 55-year-old fisherman drowned after falling from his boat while running his fish lines.

Sterlington Mayor Vern Breland said he gets more questions about when the town will get a grocery store than any other issue.

A Sterlington police officer came to the rescue of a man who fell into the bayou behind his house Monday morning.

If only Ace the Warhawk were available on an on-call basis. The University of Louisiana at Monroe mascot energetically entertained about 150 well-behaved third and fourth-grade students at A.L. Smith Elementary in Sterlington this morning, leading them in a game of "copy cat." ULM's mascot, along with university President James Cofer and Ouachita ...

One of the six people indicted along with a Sterlington man who used his young baby sitter for sexual purposes to obtain crack cocaine entered a guilty plea Tuesday in 4th District Court.