West Monroe News

The court date has been set for a local grandmother accused of taking more than $15,000 from her West Monroe employer.

Arco Builders has started several construction-related projects in downtown West Monroe.

Ouachita Parish sheriff's deputies arrested a man on a disturbing-the-peace count and ended up booking him for distributing drugs.

A wildlife rehabilitator teamed with firefighters to save a 6-week-old Mississippi kite chick that fell from its nest in West Monroe.

State police this morning were working a wreck involving an 18-wheeler on Interstate 20 near Calhoun.

The West Monroe man who pleaded guilty in March to driving drunk and causing a multiple vehicle wreck on Forsythe Avenue at Marie Place was sentenced this afternoon to 18 years at hard labor.

A West Monroe man was in stable condition with a bullet would in his right shoulder after being shot Saturday morning.

A shooting in West Monroe leaves one man in the hospital and one in the Ouachita Correctional Center.

Metro Narcotics agents arrested a former Monroe police officer and two others Thursday afternoon on drug charges.

SHREVEPORT - The man who was killed when an 18-wheeler careened across Interstate 20 and crashed into his pickup has been identified as 49-year-old Lanny W. Franks, of West Monroe, according to the Caddo Parish ...

Louisiana State Police and Food and Drug Administration agents executed a sealed federal search warrant Thursday at an office building located at 3602 Cypress St.

State police and agents with the Food and Drug Administration are executing a search warrant at 3602 Cypress Street in West Monroe .

Area Legislators expressed mixed feelings this week after Gov. Bobby Jindal nixed some $600,000 in state appropriations that were targeted for northeastern Louisiana parishes.

Voters will decide just three local elections in the fall election cycle. That's the case following the close of qualifying, which took place July 9-11. In contested elections locally, Monroe City Court Judge ...

Local elected officials turned out in numbers Wednesday to qualify for the Nov. 4 general election.

KENNER, LA U.S. Senate candidate John Kennedy this morning rolled out his campaign for US Senate against Mary Landrieu with a week long bus tour across Louisiana called "Stand Up Louisiana." From July 8-11, the ...

The price tag on construction of the proposed fourth Ouachita Parish bridge will likely be $100 million more than expected, according to a state feasibility study scheduled to be completed within the next ...

Louisiana Tech sophomore golpher Clinton Shepard has been in a slump of late, but it's safe to say he's broken out of it.

The Ouachita Parish Police Jury took the first step Monday toward eliminating West Ouachita Sewer District No.

Monroe city officials on Thursday presented $500,000 to northeastern Louisiana legislators.